Librarians volunteering language skills: The Volunteer Thread

[Adna]

I am doing my best to fix (and add) book listings from Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian writers. I am fluent in those languages.

[Casii]

I dont have any other languages but have 2 friends who speak fluent korean and russian.

[Cait]

Mistress of Night wrote: "I dont have any other languages but have 2 friends who speak fluent korean and russian."

Are they volunteering to assist with GR cataloging with requests going through you? If they're willing, it seems like it would be simpler for them to be listed directly....

[Ana]

Portuguese - Fluent (native language)
French - Basic
Spanish - Basic

[Lee]

I'm fluent in Polish.

I know a few more languages on basic level but I don't feel competent enough to make any translations... There's plenty of other more skilled users around ;)

[Fatma]

Hello, I'd like to help!

Arabic: Fluent.

Good luck ..

[stormhawk]

German, Advanced Basic.

(a bit rusty, but I managed to read Harry Potter)

[Janepage]

Spanish, and basic. But I'm going to become fluent :)

[Valeria]

I can offer:
German and Italian (native languages)
Spanish (intermediate)

[Sally]

I work on the Library and Information Services editorial board of MERLOT.org. We have a couple of learning objects that need reviewing. One is Hebrew and one is Spanish. Can anyone help?

[Cait]

Sally, this is a thread for people to post volunteer offers for helping with the GR catalog, not ask for volunteers for other projects.

If you are looking for volunteers, you could make a new post -- but I would suggest explaining what MERLOT is and why you think that people volunteering for GR would be interested in helping you with a different project. This may not be an appropriate group for this at all. (There are groups for GR users who are also librarians to discuss being librarians, and those groups might welcome this discussion, but this group is for people who are volunteering on GR itself: "Goodreads librarian" is a term for volunteers, and doesn't mean that we're all librarians professionally. It's a common confusion, but you should check the description of the group.)

[Sally]

Cait wrote: "Sally, this is a thread for people to post volunteer offers for helping with the GR catalog, not ask for volunteers for other projects.

If you are looking for volunteers, you could make a new post..."

Thanks for clarifying. Sorry.

[Sandy]

Russian - fluent

[Vicky]

Dutch - fluent (native)
French - intermediate (more than basic, but not fluent)
German - basic

[Dominic]

I can offer:
French: Fluent
German: Intermediate
Japanese: Advanced Basic (But with reference material, fluent enought to do what needs to be done for goodreads.)
Let me know if you guys need help. =]

[Cecile]

I can help with French, it's my native language.

[[deleted user]]

Hi! I can help with:
Portuguese - fluent (native language)
Spanish and Italian - very basic (just because of some similarity with portuguese)

[Zala]

I already tried to work on some books in my language - that is, Slovenian. There aren't many, though, since the language is only spoken by two milion people, but if you ever need my help (I saw Slovenian was on the list and nobody volunteered yet), it's my mother tongue. :)

[Mayona]

Russian - fluent
Estonian - fluent
Portuguese - basic

[Laura]

I can help in the following languages:

Portuguese - fluent, native language
French - fluent
Spanish - fluent (reading only, not writting)

[okyrhoe]

Greek - fluent

English - fluent

[Plch]

Italian -native language
French - intermediate (I forgot most of French grammar...)
Czech -intermediate

[Lauh - Random Utopias]

Portuguese - fluent
Spanish - basic

[Lio]

Arabic - Fluent

English - Fluent

Italian - Intermediate

[Noelle]

French-fluent

[Sybele]

Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian: fluent

[Laura]

French and German -- used to be pretty fluent in both but am probably closer to "intermediate" now. My reading comprehension has kept up better than my speaking.

[Victoria]

Russian - native speaker
Japanese - intermediate

[Katarina]

Fluent: Swedish

[Waterfall]

Norwegian - native speaker

I can probably get by in Danish and Swedish too, since the languages are quite similar.

[Mari]

Chinese :fluent
English:intermediate

[Maxim]

Russian: native

[David]

Chinese: native
Malay: intermediate

[Kati]

Czech - native

[John Willemse]

Dutch: native language

[Omnia]

arabic native

[Paul]

French - Fluent
German - Fluent

[Ulises]

Spanish: fluent
Japanese: near fluent
French: intermediate
Italian: basic
Norwegian: basic

[Mahyar]

Farsi = fluent

Arabic = basic



I'd like to help U as much as I can. :)

[Bárbara]

Portuguese: Fluent
Spanish: Fluent
French: Medium
Italian: Basic

Soon I'll have Swedish basic skills too :)

[Nicoal]

Spanish - fluent

[Jekaterina]

Russian(mother's tongue)

[Tg]

Italian: fluent
French: Advanced
German: Intermediate
Spanish: Basic

I also have cataloging experience using Portuguese, Dutch, Greek, Russian.

[Gwen]

Dutch: Fluent (mother tongue)
French: intermediate
German: very basic, I can read it and translate parts of it, but that's about it

[Sarah]

Hebrew - fluent.
Russian - good.
Spanish - basic.
French - basic.
Georgian - can't read or write.....

[Dimitri]

Indonesian - fluent
English - good

[[deleted user]]

Slovenian - native speaker
English - fluent
French - basic
German - intermediate-fluent
Latin - intermediate (in progress)
Spanish - basic
Italian - basic
Croatian - basic

[Ioan]

Romanian - native
English - fluent
German - good
Japanese - good
Chinese - Basic

[Cait]

Just as a couple of reminders, folks -- I'm not recording fluency in English, since we're assuming that all librarians who are volunteering here are fluent enough in English to discuss librarian topics, and I'm recording fluency in other languages on only three levels: fluent (can research problematic books in the language), intermediate (willing to help in the absence of fluent librarians), and basic (comfortable enough trying to figure things out).

[Anna]

Cait wrote: "Just as a couple of reminders, folks -- I'm not recording fluency in English, since we're assuming that all librarians who are volunteering here are fluent enough in English to discuss librarian topics"

What about those for who English is a second language (bilingual people don't count - they have two mother tongues)? I'm native speaker of Polish, I speak English fluently and right now I'm learning German on EU level A2 - it's like more than basic, but not yet intermediate.