Many people on this forum roleplay nations either inspired by, or variously based on, cultures that are not their own. Sometimes they even attempt to add phrases and whole dialogue in foreign languages which they don't have a complete knowledge of, and end up translating them via Google Translate or similar service. This ends up really obvious for people with actual knowledge of the language.
For this reason, I have decided to offer some help to the residents of this forum, as following.
1. As a speaker of Russian and Hebrew, I can translate sentences or dialogue from English into Russian and Hebrew for you, and provide both transcriptions into Latin alphabet (that's the one I'm using right now) and a transcription in the Cyrillic and Hebrew alphabets.
2. I will answer, to the best of my ability, various questions about the culture and politics of these countries, their culture and literature. If I don't know something, I'll try and help you find out via my use of Russian- and Hebrew- language Internet resources that you as a non-speaker of these languages have no access to.
3. I will translate, within reason, short documents and news articles for you that have a relevance to your NS worldbuiling [absolutely not more than 2000 words]. This not an attempt by myself to sell any services or commissions, and if I have time I will do so free of charge.
Furthermore, I will collate here a list of those users that'll be willing to answer similar questions about the cultures and languages of other countries.
Index of Users and Help Provided:
Allanea Russian/Hebrew dialogue translation, research help, brief article translation.
Hiluxia Spanish dialogue translation
Rejistania German, Esperanto, conlanging assistance
Imeriata Swedish, medieval Swedish runes
Anollasia Turkish/French assistance
Pherdistan Italian/French assistance
Les Guyanes Italian/French assistance
Kalosia Indonesian assistance
New Visayan Islands Tagalog and Cebuano translation.
Togeria Japanese
Gaptaland German, Old English, or Gothic
Dawetid Chinese, Japanese
Thervingia Gothic, Russian, and Hebrew, conlanging assistance
Lajau Malay/Indonesian
Viriam I can help with How to Build a conlang, as well as my own Conlang (Viri/Viriamian), and IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) Help.
P.S. This is not intended to be a homework assistance thread, as those are generally outside the scope of this forum, but rather it is intended to aid people with NS-related projects.
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