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I've dropped this suggetion in a few different threads, but I think it's good enough to warrant its own thread.

NS is already an international phenomenon and anything that would boost usage in places besides North America would be huge for the site.

For that purpose, I'm sure that if specific French, German, Swedish and Spanish-language forums were created, they'd get a shitload of usage immediately, especially if they were easier to access than the regional forums for countries where these languages are spoken. This would give native speakers a better chance to connect with NS without having to wrestle with language barriers in the main forums, where half of the posts are incomprehensible to native English speakers anyway.

And hell, it'd be a good language-building tool for the rest of us and a welcome exposure to some diversity. Kids even could use NS threads for their foreign-language homework.

To quote Mike Myers: DISCUSS!

 
I agree with you. I have gotten a suprisingly high number of responses to sale threads from people who speak other languages.
 
Wenn ich die Chance hätte, würde ich gern mal ein bisschen mehr deutsch auf Newschoolers sprechen!

Me gusta Newswchoolers... me gusta español e Newschoolers!

Je t'aime Newschoolers, mais je voudrais parlez francais en Newschoolers!
 
Why dont you make an option like select language when you first sign up rather than making a new forum. Plus its not that hard to do you just have to install a language multi pack for servers and bada bing. Probably a bit more work than i described but yeah got for it.
 
Localization is a HUGE undertaking, even when you have people donating their time to do the translation. Unfortunately, it's not install a server language pack and it just works. There's no such thing as a server language pack (unless we're thinking of 2 different things).

It took me 3 months to fully prepare a 300k line piece of software for multiple languages. I've been doing prof software development for the last 8 or 9 years. Don't mean to knock your idea. Just mean to clarify.

I'm all for a multi-language forums.
 
Germany is the most populous country in Europe and skiing is a way of life there, you wouldn't believe how big the ski scene is. Add in Austria and about half of Switzerland and you've got more German-speaking skiers than there are skiers in all of North America.
 
French would work pretty well. Ca parle déja francais ds les regionals de Montreal ... mais cette section la des forums marche pas fort fort.
 
Babelfish is a great tool that achieves rudimentary translations, but I don't think it'd have a chance in hell at accomplishing real communication with all the slang that's in use on NS. If you didn't speak English and used an online translator for every NS thread you wanted to read, I'm sure it would be frustrating and near-futile.

Plus, you'd have to rely on the same translator to post in the forums... fun eh? "Would you want really such a thing?"
 
Yeah that is true. But, during one of my tech classes a while back, we were making websites. Our teacher whipped out a program sorta like dream weaver but with an option to add languages to your website. It had options for like 6 different languages french, spansih, and etc. The only problem was that it had a lot of grammatical errors. Like Le La Les which are like franch pronous it would not be able apply the correct one. Also, in other languages the order of words in a stence is not ordered the same way in english.

But yeah, for a correct multi language website it's a lot of work.
 
Esto es un idea brillante. Me gusta mucho porque abre puertos para los otros nsers que no hablen ingles

My spanish practice for the day.
 
haha gracias!! hablas bien el espanol? yo creo que hay cults donde genta habla su idioma...

I think theres cults where people speak their own language? i wouldn't know
 
Ella habla español naturalmente? Yo soló tomo un clase en mi escuela, pero yo quiero estudiar mas en el futuro...Yo veo personas de Francia, Canada, Alemania, etc, pero nadie de españa aqui.

Do I speak alright?
 
The regionals have threads in them in various languages. Someone today posted in SG looking for other Danes.
 
i like newschoolers, now i can talk french on newschoolers

im learning french in school i like the idea
 
si yo soy de Colombia (al lado de Brazil) espanol es mi primera lengua.

Hablas muy bien el espanol pense que eras fluente, no eh visto mucha gente de espana aqui, solo nico de chile creo...

Yeah you're pretty good i thought you were fluent or something (in case you didn't get that) haha
 
^ ? 

And by the way ... it is kind of funny to see the german language between all those english posts. Kinda looks weird. I can somehow understand americans, who think if two germans talk, it sounds like they constantly quarrel. 

... I do not speak german, but austrian. 
 
hahaha, I am in Amsterdam right now, and my dutch teacher said to me, when we tell, what language we speak, we should say we speak german and austrian, because in her opinnion these are two different languages. Actually they are the same, but if I speak wit my friends, I can tell no german will understand us. Its like with the swiss people. They basically speak german, but no german can unserstand them. 
 
Very true! In fact if the regional forums had a higher profile and more intuitive accessibility (I'm thinking a world map, you just click on your country/state and it takes you to that forum), then that would eliminate the need for language forums.

I'm suggesting this because I feel the regionals have always been a bit marginalized. However, an overhaul of that section would definitely replace the need for language forums.
 
This site supports any latin language... sadly we don't have the asian characters installed, and that would be a large undertaking as its a lot in the database.

However, if you speak a forein language, just start posting in it!

Ethan, maybe you should lead by example and use your german skills to do something about this with what we've got?

We've alwasy had major plans to up the ante on the regionality of NS, sadly we just haven't managed to get to it with so many other things on our plates. However its always been in the plans and will be something that get addressed.

 
Seriously! I stopped using my German after high school, and I was getting close to fluent! Over the past year I have been trying to pick it back up. It would be really cool to have NS help with that! Hahaha.
 
chingar is said in mexico, cojer in argentina, follar in spain and many other variations... something like: garchar, echar un polvo, clavar, enterrar la batata and id say the others arent appropiate
 
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