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MultiLingYule
This mini-challenge is for works in languages other than English.
Maybe fanworks in your first language are a rare beast and you'd love to connect with a fellow speaker who's also a fellow fan.
Maybe you're learning a new language and getting a gift in it would be the most delightful way to work on your own fluency.
Maybe you just want to talk about how much you love conlangs and invite someone to incorporate conlangs into your gift.
On the writing** side: unless someone has clearly indicated that a non-English work would suit as their only gift, gifts of that kind need be posted in Yuletide Madness, regardless of length. Works can only go in the main collection if they fulfil all the same requirements as an assigned gift.
Similarly, someone may be delighted to get a gift in a language you've just started to learn, and connect with you over enthusiasm for that language, but if you're posting a gift in the Main rather than the Madness collection, it should probably be in a language you're either fluent in or can call on fluent help for.
On the (tangential) beta side, people who can check text snippets, lines of dialogue, etc, in multiple languages are extremely valuable and appreciated, and if you can offer this service, please consider doing so when the beta post goes up.
*I think credit is due to Rosencrantz for the title
**or maybe there could be sign language works! or something else! Who knows!
Maybe fanworks in your first language are a rare beast and you'd love to connect with a fellow speaker who's also a fellow fan.
Maybe you're learning a new language and getting a gift in it would be the most delightful way to work on your own fluency.
Maybe you just want to talk about how much you love conlangs and invite someone to incorporate conlangs into your gift.
MultiLingYule* is an opt-in challenge similar to Crueltide and Interactive Fiction. Comment here to let people know
-if you are interested in receiving gifts in languages other than English
-what languages those are
-what you're prompting (link your letter)
-any other useful notes.
With a Mod Hat On
On the requesting side: if you would be happy if a gift in a different language were your only gift, please also note this in the optional details of your sign-up form. This prevents mod panic when we go to check assignments and need to figure out if someone can actually read their gift!On the writing** side: unless someone has clearly indicated that a non-English work would suit as their only gift, gifts of that kind need be posted in Yuletide Madness, regardless of length. Works can only go in the main collection if they fulfil all the same requirements as an assigned gift.
Similarly, someone may be delighted to get a gift in a language you've just started to learn, and connect with you over enthusiasm for that language, but if you're posting a gift in the Main rather than the Madness collection, it should probably be in a language you're either fluent in or can call on fluent help for.
On the (tangential) beta side, people who can check text snippets, lines of dialogue, etc, in multiple languages are extremely valuable and appreciated, and if you can offer this service, please consider doing so when the beta post goes up.
*I think credit is due to Rosencrantz for the title
**or maybe there could be sign language works! or something else! Who knows!
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Requested fandoms: Call Me By Your Name (2017), Seraphina – Rachel Hartman, Graceling Realm Series – Kristin Cashore, Fleabag (TV), John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme
Letter: https://starfishstar.dreamwidth.org/120515.html
Main Gift Languages: German
Madness Languages: German, Yiddish, Icelandic (or possibly other Scandinavian languages), Thai
Comments: I'm fluent in German, so I'm happy to get a gift in German in either the Main or Madness collections! Yiddish I don't actually speak, beyond a bit of this-is-what-my-great-grandparents-spoke osmosis, BUT I can read Hebrew/Yiddish letters, and I speak German, and I've taken one semester of Yiddish so I've got a tiny grasp on grammar – it's slow, but if I take my time I can pretty much make sense of written Yiddish. Similar for Icelandic – I speak it at only a very beginner's level, but between the vocab I do know, and the grammatical similarity to German, with the help of a dictionary I can puzzle my way through! Much the same for other Scandinavian languages, given the similarity to Icelandic (and the little bit of Swedish I learned in the past). Thai I spoke fairly well when I lived there, but that was 20 years ago and I've unfortunately retained very little at this point. But if it's something short (perhaps a drabble?) and fairly simple language, I could figure it out!