Librarians volunteering language skills: The Volunteer Thread

[David]

Portuguese: fluent
French: basic
Spanish: proficient (Spanish to English)

[M]

French: fluent
Italian: basic

[Kiwi]

French: Basic (Taking French 3 right now)
Chinese: Fluent
Japanese: Very Basic

[Ilia]

Russian: fluent

[Mont'ster]

Spanish: Fluent

[Selena]

Serbo-Croatian: Fluent
Bosnian: Fluent
Latin: Basic

[Nia]

German: fluent

[Ola]

Polish: fluent
German: basic

[Agnieszka T.]

Polish - mother tongue
German - basic
French - very basic ;)

[Austin]

Spanish: advanced/fluent (depending on how much credit you may give me)

[[deleted user]]

Dutch: fluent

[Narin]

Thai : Fluent

[JG (Introverted Reader)]

So, if I find an author who has, say, several books in Farsi, should I pick someone from this list and message them directly for help, or post somewhere and just generally ask for help?

[rivka, Former Moderator]

Whichever you feel more comfortable, I think. I suggest a new topic in this folder, if you're posting here.

[Dario]

Italian: writer :-)

[Carla]

My native language is Portuguese.

[Lastoadri]

Arabic Native, and English fluent..
i can help with both :)

[رحاب]

Arabic - mother tongue
English - fluent
(and I'm an English-Arabic/Arabic-English translator too)

[David]

Portuguese: native language
Spanish: basic
English: fluent

[Noora]

Hi! Native Finnish speaker here, count me in. :)

[Clouddancer]

Polish - fluent (mother tongue)
French - basic
Czech - basic/intermediate
Slovak - basic/intermediate

[Nenangs]

Indonesian: Native
French: Very Basic
Sundanese (indonesian tribe): Basic
Javanese (indonesian tribe): Basic

[Alexandra]

Chinese -- fluent

I've taken German and Latin classes, but, well, those two definitely didn't take... I can also sort of piece out some very basic Japanese (because of the kanji).

[Elly]

Dutch/Flemish -- fluent (mother tongue)
German -- intermediate
French -- Basic

[Gibarian]

Spanish: fluent (native speaker)

[Anca]

Romanian: Fluent(native)

[Klaudyna]

Polish - fluent
German - basic
Italian - basic

[Mahmoud]

Arabic - fluent

[Ubik]

Please add Lithuanian to the list. This book is Lithuanian and I cant tell what it is. The P word wont translate. THanks in advance!

EDIT: Nevermind on translating that title. The book cover had that information so I combined it accordingly, but we should still probably add Lithuanian to the list. :D

[Hilda]

Chinese - fluent

[Edie]

I have some extremely basic Spanish and French skills. Don't trust me to make book reviews in them!

[Storm]

Hungarian: Fluent (Mother language)

Currently learning Lakota (Just started).

Hi! I just got my librarian status.
I am hungarian, and I already have experience in translating between hungarian and english. In the case of english-to-hungarian, I used to literary translate poems and other shorter texts, and at the moment I am working on technical translation of old horse-related books into hungarian.

I am glad if I can help Goodreads. Nowadays when the act of reading books is not "trendy" anymore, such a site is very refreshing. :)

[rivka, Former Moderator]

Keep your eye on the other threads in this folder for requests for help with specific languages.

[Cait]

Also, if your profile is public (or we ever get librarian-to-librarian messaging), someone may drop you a note asking you to look at certain books.

[Storm]

I am already looking into some Hungarian authors and books to correct the names and titles. (Special hungarian characters are mispelled with other characters, like "a" instead of "á")

[rivka, Former Moderator]

Great!

[Ghastly]

Ukrainian: fluent
Russian: fluent
German: intermediate
Chinese (Mandarin): basic

[[deleted user]]

I'm fluent in Portuguese (it's my mother tongue). I asked to become a librarian just so I could help edit books published in Brazil.

[c2o]

Bahasa Indonesia: fluent

[Literary Multitudes]

German: fluent (mother tongue)
Spanish: basic

[Ubik]

Could you also add Swahili to the list? This author for example could use some help

[Abdullah]

arabic:fluent

[Jan]

German: fluent (mother tongue)

[[deleted user]]

Italian: fluent

[an.]

Polish: native
German: intermediate
Russian: basic

[Sara ♥]

Korean... I can read and pronounce the characters, but with almost no comprehension... However, since I know the characters, I can use online translators to give me basic ideas... So if there were Korean translations of a book, I might be able to help determine what it was a translation of....

[Leila]

Swedish: Fluent :)

[Marie]

French: fluent

[Catrina]

Japanese: intermediate

[Raymond]

French -- Basic
Esperanto -- Intermediate
Ido -- Intermediate