Citizendium in other languages: which ones do we already know?

[John Stephenson]

Eventually, Citizendium will be available in other languages. We'd like to see what languages we already have among our authors and editors, perhaps with a view to prioritising these. If you think you could write and edit in another language, then add your details to the page below.

Note: this is not a vote on what languages to include. It is merely a way of finding out what languages we know, which may inform later decision-making about how to proceed.

http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/CZ:International

Thanks,

John Stephenson (constable)

[christian liem]

I speak English, German, Indonesian fluently. French with great difficulty

[Stephen Ewen]

I don't see that you've added Indonesian to the collection there.    

[cute_bianca]

It would be much better to include all languages, making it easier for others to interact.

[Mirzhan Irkegulov]

Why not to use ISO 639-3? It is a newest international language standard, using 3 letters instead of 2.
English will be "eng" instead of "en", German - "deu", French - "fra" etc.

PS: My native is Russian.

[Howard C. Berkowitz]

Hmm. Well, my Scandinavian friends tell me speak enough Danish and Swedish such that I reliably give cheerful greetings in Dansk to the Swedes and in Svensk to the Danes.  They appreciate the effort.

While my spoken German is largely forgotten, I do have a substantial knowledge of German and Japanese military vocabulary, the latter, of course, transliterated.

I might also add that I am fluent in some high-context dialogue modes, which can be as important as a formal language in practical communication. For example, when I speak about medicine with a physician, while a layman may understand every term, the conversation, due to the amount of unspoken context, becomes incomprehensible.

It has been said that I speak native general American (with moderate proficiency in Texan and inner-city dialect), near-native Anglophone Canadian (less Newfie), competent English with higher proficiency in Yorkshire exclamations, and adequate Australian. I have not, however, mastered all the nuances of cross-gender communications in my birth language.

[Drew R. Smith]

I can read and write Hawaiian, but I can't hold a conversation because most Native speakers won't slow down and I get lost. I'm working on it though.~~~~