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Librarians volunteering language skills: The Volunteer Thread
French: fluentUkrainian: basic
Spanish: basic
German: basic
Let me know how I can help.
Bulgarian - mother tongueGerman, Russian - basic
Italian- fluent (mothertongue)French and Spanish (a bit mor than basic)
Spanish: fluentFrench: fluent
Polish: fluent
Portuguese: intermediate
And that's all. :)
But I understand also Italian and Catalan.
Quaxo wrote: "Spanish: fluentFrench: fluent
Polish: fluent
Portuguese: intermediate
And that's all. :)
But I understand also Italian and Catalan."
That's impressive
Anna wrote: "That's impressive"Thank you, but Polish is my mother tongue. ;)
Quaxo wrote: "Anna wrote: "That's impressive"Thank you, but Polish is my mother tongue. ;)
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I started to think that your're at least bilingual (Polish/French), if not trilingual (Polish/French/Spanish).
Anna wrote: "I started to think that your're at least bilingual (Polish/French), if not trilingual (Polish/Frenc..."I have master in Spanish Studies and French Bilingual Certificate. :)
Ah, and BTW I checked your blog, I really like it. :)
portuguese - native language (extremely fluent)english - im fluent but you dont need my english
I can also speak some basic-intermediate french , spanish and german
Hi,French : fluent
German : (let's say) fluent
Greek : intermediate
Dutch: fluentGerman: basic-intermediate
French: very basic
Portuguese: fluentSpanish: basic
French: very basic
Hindi: Can speak semi-fluently but cannot write
French - basicJapanese - intermediate
Portuguese - fluent
Spanish - intermediate
Jen wrote: "Hindi: Can speak semi-fluently but cannot write"Jen, at what level can you read Hindi for cataloging purposes?
Spanish-fluentKorean-fluent
French-basic
Latin-basic
Mandarin Chinese(simplified)- Can speak almost like a native and write pinyin very fluently, very basic reading and writing
Spanish: Basic-intermediate (I know verbs and grammer pretty well, but my vocab leaves much to be desired.)
Hey Cait, you might as well sign me up for Tibetan. :) I've been searching for the book entries that have been transliterated into Wylie from Tibetan and am able to reverse transliterate and translate (as well as spell names in Tibetan on author profiles) and that'd probably be considered "basic." I can always get fluent friends to help if I get stuck on an entry.
Cait wrote: "Jen wrote: "Hindi: Can speak semi-fluently but cannot write"Jen, at what level can you read Hindi for cataloging purposes?"
No, but I can speak it
Jen wrote: "Cait wrote: "Jen wrote: "Hindi: Can speak semi-fluently but cannot write"Jen, at what level can you read Hindi for cataloging purposes?"
No, but I can speak it
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Jen, Well, thank you, but here at Goodreads we need people who can read the languages. Ability to speak actually isn't required at all.
you know that there is always translator!
Icelandic: intermediate reading level.I can't write nearly as well, but I can string a basic sentence together. I can translate from Icelandic to English, but would not be confident going the other way.
I'm not sure what is meant by 'book records' - what exactly am I volunteering for here?
Abi, what this thread is trying to do is gather volunteers who are willing to work on books cataloged on Goodreads which are in various languages. For a lot of authors, their books in English are neatened up and combined but their books in other languages are left alone because the volunteers couldn't find any information in languages they could read. So, for example, if you volunteered as an Icelandic cataloger, that would mean that someone working on an author with Icelandic-language books might message you to ask for help with those books, which might involve identifying English translations of certain editions, standardizing series names, or that sort of thing -- all of the regular librarian work, but specifically for Icelandic books that non-Icelandic-speaking librarians can't handle. Does that interest you?
Cait wrote: "Abi, what this thread is trying to do is gather volunteers who are willing to work on books cataloged on Goodreads which are in various languages. For a lot of authors, their books in English are ..."Yep, I can do that. Sign me up.
Spanish-fluent (native speaker)
I am fluent in Spanish (mother tongue) and I am also missing my second mother tongue in the list: Galician. Can it be added? I am also fluent in Galician.
Spanish: FluentFrench: Basic
Italian: Basic
Spanish: FluentChinese (Mandarin): Fluent
Chinese (Cantonese): Basic
Fluent French (it's my mother tongue)
Hungarian: fluent (my native language)Latin: intermediate/fluent
Italian: basic/intermediate
German: basic
Finnish: very basic
German: FluentScots (lowland): Fluent
French: Advanced
Dutch: Advanced
Spanish: Advanced
Latin: Advanced
Ancient/Koine Greek: intermediate
Italian: basic-intermediate
Korean: very basic
Phil, you're classic/ Roman philologist??
Nope, Christian theologian with a passion for language learning (as well as an expat with friends all over the world, which contributes to the language learning passion). But it would have made a fun alternative career choice (to me, anyway)!
Phil, that is fantastic. French: basic
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Since the purpose of this list is to compile contact information for librarians volunteering to help with keeping the books in various languages well-catalogued, there doesn't seem to be much point in maintaining a list of English-speakers -- there's no shortage of people fluent in English to work on those books! (In fact, I've been thinking of separating out the French-, German-, and Spanish-speakers as well, since those are also turning out to be very common languages for librarians.)
If GR librarians who want to volunteer here can't speak English comfortably, I can make a note of preferred language for messaging -- this scenario didn't really come up in the initial discussion of compiling this list, since the discussion was all in English! But then, the same issue applies to most areas of librarian work, in that we aren't really set up to work outside of English.
"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."
I'm not sure how useful it is to track the levels that closely -- if someone is looking through this list for someone to ask for help, I don't want to make it too confusing to figure out who the most helpful people are likely to be! So if you don't feel like you can answer German questions on an intermediate level yet, you can always wait to have yourself listed as a resource in German until you're more comfortable with it.