Forum:Comments in foreign langauges

In the Japanese fandom, you do have to know Japanese in order to go onto Nico Nico Douga, Piapro and various other websites. However, we are not NND Piapro or any of those sites and I'm aware not every language has good support for the Vocaloids via a wikipedia article, Vocaloid wikia or forum. We do get a fair amount of fans who are not English here. Plus as Vocaloid moves out into other langauges, it invites more non-English speakers here. Bruno and Clara have already broguth a few more Spanish speakers here it seems then I expected them to.

Since we have had a few comments not in English already, there is no big issue with not being able to use English at all, since everyone has been cool so far, its fine to continue with things being as they are. We can check a fair amount of translations anyway even if it is just via google translator. And when it comes down to the crunch, not all the native English editors here have great English skills. :-/

We'd only consider flat out banning the use of languages other then English if it gets abused.

But if your first langauge is not English, but you want to write in English, you can do what some do which is write a message in English and then in your native language. We'll understand your first language is not English whenever we see this going on. Some folks like to try to speak in English, it improves their own English skills or shows respect to the web hosts. You can also through the messages through google translator, as amusing as it is, with the amount of bad gramma and spelling mistakes out there, some of us are likely used to it. There is no penalty for not using English.

That said, this is not an announcement to invite swams of massive non-English comments and if we get abuse we will have to reconsider at a later date. Just that we do't mind it and make everyone aware that English speaking wikia = English language should be used where possible; but we bend to fit everyone.

Also, since we're on the subject of languages and I already mentioned the Japanese fandom... Since we DO link to Japanese websites, please DO use Japanese where possible on those sites. Its just the majority of the Japanese population are not great at foriegn langauges and its sort of much harder for them to get a decent translation of overseas languages (particularly Europeon origin languages) because in an awful lot of cases the gaps between Japanese and other language translations are huge. Plus as the main hub for all things Japanese, they sort of get just about every langauge thrown at them in the world (literally), so it can be really fustrating for them. If you can't write Japanese, just write "GJ" ("Good Job") and thats fine.

In other words, we've got some leyway with languages, but they don't always have that pleasure.