Librarians volunteering language skills: The Volunteer Thread

[rivka, Former Moderator]

Please limit posts in this thread to librarian-related issues.

[Vis]

English: fluent
Tamil: fluent
German: intermediate
Japanese: basic

[Gaia]

Catalan: mother tongue
Spanish: mother tongue
English: fluent
Italian: fluent
French: intermediate
Portuguese: basic
Galician: basic

[Matthias]

German: native
French: what I remember from school. So: understanding is ok, but I can't write a lot on my own
Norwegian: basic

[Haanim]

Afrikaans (fluent)

[Paulina]

Polish - native
English - fluent
Spanish - intermediate
French - basic

[[deleted user]]

German - native
English - fluent
Italian - basic

[Iraida]

Spanish - native
English - fluent
German - basic
Italian - basic

[Ere]

Italian - native
Japanese - fluent

[Chris]

French - native
Japanese - basic
Italian - basic
Spanish - basic

[Marie Claude]

French - fluent native

[R.T.]

polish - 100 %
english - 100 %

[Nadine]

German - native
Spanish - basic

[Anne]

German fluent (native)
Russian very basic

[Amerdale]

German native
Swedish very basic

[Stefani]

Spanish, Intermediate/Fluent
English, Native

[Sanny]

German - native

[Utopian]

Turkish- fluent-native
Russian- Basic
French- Basic
Kurdish- Basic

[Utopian]

Turkish- Native
Russian- intermediate
French- Basic
Kurdish- Basic

[Jacek]

Polish - native
English - fluent

[Isabelle]

French - native - fluent
Spanish - basic
Italian - very basic
German - very basic

I'm already merging/adding French titles I see/own with the original work. Sometimes Spanish or Italian as well.
Fell free to contact me if you need help, especially in French.

[Adriana]

French - fluent - native
Spanish - good
:)

[Zelie]

Bahasa Indonesia - fluent - native

[SimplyƝì₭]

Spanish- fluent

[Dodo]

Lithuanian: Mother Tongue
English UK/US (not Australian, though): fluent
Polish: fluent
Russian: fluent
French: intermediate
Bulgarian: basic
Spanish: basic
German: very basic

And I still have not quite forgotten my compulsory Latin...

While at that, I have a question to ask. There are Goodreads Authors, but what about Goodreads Translators?

[rivka, Former Moderator]

A translator credited on one or more books can be a Goodreads Author too.

[Dodo]

Thank you, Rivka!

I have not explored this site thoroughly as yet, so I`m not sure whether this applies or not...

Lots of books translated by me have been published, but those do not matter, as none of them is written by a Goodreads Author; moreover, the authors in question need no promoting, they are well-known as it is. What I mean is less known yet interesting Goodreads authors, like, say, Ahmad Amani.

I find the funny books of his well worth translating and promoting. So I translated a couple into LT ( http://readaholicme.weebly.com/my-gra... , http://readaholicme.weebly.com/big-fi... ) and RU ( http://readaholicme.weebly.com/my-gra... ), and, with the kind permission from the Author, shared the translations on my tiny Readaholic website. Only that`s too tiny...

I mean, is there a place here for things like that? So that translators (I`m sure quite a few members here are translators) might "promote" works by Goodreads Authors they like by translating and sharing excerpts of the books they like and deem worth translating? It has to be but excerpts, as translations of this kind should be done gratis, and the time a translator can donate is limited...

Thanks again!

[rivka, Former Moderator]

Dodo wrote: "Lots of books translated by me have been published, but those do not matter, as none of them is written by a Goodreads Author"

They don't have to be. A translator of any author can claim their profile. This one could, for instance: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...

As for informal translations, as long as you don't exceed fair use limitations, you could add those to your writing section. But there is no official place on Goodreads those could be added.

If you wish to discuss this further, please start a new thread in this folder.

[Alissa]

Italian, native

[Arely]

I am mexican and obviously I speak Spanish.

Lately I have seen that there are not some of the editions of my favorite books in Spanish, I would like to contribute to goodreads by adding the books to the catalogue.

My english is not so fluent.

[Noah]

Fluent Japanese.

[Maya]

Bulgarian - native
Russian - fluent
Macedonian - very good
Serbian - basic

[Camille]

French - native

[Nathalia]

German- native
French- Basic
Italian- Basic
Hindi- Basic

[Marie]

Czech - native

[Стоянка]

Bulgarian: fluent (native)
English: fluent

[Alina]

Romanian - native
English - fluent
Spanish - fluent
German - basic

[L'existence Et le Silence]

German fluent (native)
French basic

I always change the description of a book from english or other languages into german if i see it on details.
It makes me crazy to see incomplete or false detsils.

[Jorge]

Spanish - Fluent (native)
English - Fluent
French - Intermediate
Japanese - basic

[Delphine]

French - native
English - fluent
German - basic

[Carsya]

Hi! I'm fluent in Spanish (native speaker) and am willing to contribute in any way I can.

[Regiane]

I'm a native speaker of Brazilian Portuguese and fluent in English. I've requested to become a librarian so that I can help with Brazilian editions, but haven't gotten an answer yet.

[Sandra]

Spanish - native
French - basic

[Noëmi]

German, english and swiss german -fluent

[Renette]

Afrikaans - fluent, but there's not that many Afrikaans books on Goodreads :). And English of course..

[Turky]

arabic (fluent)

[Nick]

Ukrainian (native) & Russian

[Alex]

Modern Greek - Native
English - Fluent
French - Basic to Intermediate
Ancient Greek - Basic to Intermediate

[Murad]

Turkish fluent
English fluent

[Guatón]

Spanish - Fluent (native)