Librarians volunteering language skills: The Volunteer Thread

[Martha]

Spanish--Intermediate

[Mostly on Storygraph]

Tagalog, Filipino, Ilocano - intermediate-ish :)

[Günter]

I can help with German and Spanish (both fluent)
Gunter

[Célia | Estante de Livros]

Hi!
Portuguese - Fluent

:)

[Annalaura]

French Fluent
Spanish Advanced

[Mary]

Chinese (both traditional and simplified), fluent.

[Sophiene]

Hi,
I am fluent in Dutch, Papiamento and English. I have a good grasp of German. And I have a little bit of Spanish and French.

[Melanie]

Dutch: fluent
German: fluent

[Jenn]

French - basic: I can read it better than I speak it.

Dabble in a smattering of other "romance" languages, including some 15th century French. Willing to give it a go if assistance is required on some titles, maybe some content...from language to English. Can't really go the other way, it's been a long time.

[Kyra]

Spanish: basic

I think Irish should be on there.

[rivka, Former Moderator]

Irish is actually called Gaelic. Do we have any books on GR in Gaelic?

[Kyra]

Whoops. Forgot that. I don't know whether we have books in Gaelic on GR or not...hm.

[rivka, Former Moderator]

I don't think there are many books written in Gaelic. I am far from an expert, but my impression was that the language tended more to being spoken (and sung) than to having books written in it. At least in the past few hundred years.

[Kyra]

Maybe. I don't know, I'm not an expert either. I just know some people who speak it (sometimes in shows, singing) and thought it might be a somewhat known language. One of those people wrote a story in Gaelic, though not published (yet, she's still working on it). That's all I know about it.

[Heather]

The Irish tend to call the language "Irish", not "Gaelic", when speaking English. (When speaking Irish, it's "Gaeilge".) And there is no shortage of books written in Irish.

[rivka, Former Moderator]

Then it should definitely be added to the list. Assuming we have any volunteers.

[Cait]

Might as well put it on the list to encourage volunteers! Shall I list it as "Irish (Gaelic)"?

[Heather]

Sounds like a good way to list it.

[Heather]

By the way:
http://www.litriocht.com/shop/
I can't tell from that how many are written in Irish and how many are translated into Irish, but cool nonetheless.
(Sorry for the tangent, but thought some might find it interesting.)

[[deleted user]]

Dutch - fluent (my knowledge of Dutch includes Medieval and 17th century Dutch)
German - basic

[Shelley]

Russian: Fluent - and currently cataloging Russian books professionally. Send me some work!

[Elke]

German: fluent

[Roxane]

French: fluent (mother tongue)
Spanish: basic

[Geediez]

Hey

Polish - native
German - basic

[Armamix]

Norwegian: Native
Swedish, Danish: Fluent
German: Basic

[Tess]

Spanish: fluent (native speaker)
French: basic (better at written, not spoken level)

Do you still need help with those two, especially Spanish?

[Cait]

Tess wrote: "Do you still need help with those two, especially Spanish?"

We've had a lot of people listing French, Spanish, and German language skills and I wouldn't expect people with only basic knowledge of those languages to be called upon, really. Fluent speakers can hardly go wrong, though!

[Avory]

French: fluent
German: fluent
Turkish: basic
Russian: basic
Danish: basic
Italian: basic

Well, most are somewhat in between :-D

[Kanti]

Indonesian: native
Japanese: fluent

[Bader]

Thank you,

Arabic - Fluent

[Dagmara]

Spanish- fluent
Catalan-fluent
Polish- native
italian- intermediate

[Ata]

German: native
Polish: native
Spanish: basic
French: basic
Japanese: basic
Russian: basic

[Alía]

Spanish: fluent
French: intermediate
Japanese: basic

[[deleted user]]

Portuguese - br - fluent
English - intermediate
Spanish - intermediate
Italian - intermediate
Russian - basic

[Doris]

Estonian- native
English - fluent (duh!)
Dutch - fluent
French - good
Russian - basic

[Ewa]

Polish - fluent
German - basic

[iffi]

Bulgarian - fluent

[Avigail]

Greek - fluent (mother tongue)
Hebrew - fluent (mother tongue)
Spanish - intermediate.

[Sarah]

German: fluent (mother tongue)
French: fluent (mother tongue)

I could also help out with my very basic Icelandic, at least it is enough to file, add info and discover mistakes. Actually, I've already been pretty active on Icelandic books and authors.

[Kasia]

I'm there if you need me...

Polish - native speaker / fluent
German - intermediate / basic

[Pantteri]

I can offer

German - fluent
French - fluent

Finnish - basic
Swedish - basic

if needed Latin - intermediate
and Old-Icelandic - basic

:)

[Łukasz]

Hey,

Polish - native

[Jack]

I'd like to volunteer...

Bahasa Melayu (Malay) - Fluent
English - Intermediate? (I'm non-native speaker)

- I think, if you rate fluency on non-literacy basis... I was never good at Malay Literature lol... Never good at English Literature either... But, I - I mean, my mother, have a collection of Malay books dated from, I dunno, even before I was born I suppose, I'll look through and keep adding as I go.

[Tristan]

french - fluent
english - intermediate

hope i can help.

[Cait]

Just to say -- English has been our common language for discussion in the Goodreads Librarians group here, so if you're participating here then you don't need to restate it!

[Susanna]

Finnish: native speaker

[Brixton]

German: Fluent
Norwegian: Intermediate (for the purposes of combining and updating records, I would say fluent)

For the purposes of combining and updating records, I can also get along fine (intermediate:) in Swedish, Danish, and Dutch, as well as some (basic:) French and Spanish.

Put me down however/wherever needed. Thanks.

[Lena]

I'm completely fluent in Russian, and I am willing to offer my services for any translation help.

[Natsroshan]

I can help for french books: fluent.

[Angie]

I can't offer any help here, but Hindi would probably be a good language to add to the list.

(I'd love it if Tibetan could also be added to the list but have yet to come across a Tibetan on goodreads and my Tibetan sucks to the point where I can't really read. But for future reference...)