To wonder why foreign langage chat threads don't really happen on MN?

[lazylinguist]

There must be tons of MNers who are bilingual/learning a language/want to brush up their rusty French or Spanish etc. Occasionally there's an attempt at starting a thread, but they always peter out really quickly.

I speak (and teach) French and German and would happily join in with threads in those languages (and help out anyone on the thread who was learning). But I'm also learning Spanish and would most of all love to be able to do MN chat in Spanish! I know there are FB groups etc for that sort of thing, but I'd much rather chat on a forum where I'm already comfortable and feel like I know the atmosphere/tone iyswim!

Tez szukam kogos kto by mnie zrozumial

Nu sunt romanca.

I think the trouble with these threads is that they don't have a purpose beyond practicing language, and after a few comments, there isn't so much more to say. I reckon you need to find an interesting topic to talk about in the language to keep the conversation going. Like a TV series that posters can discuss in the target language.

مفيش حد يتكلم عربي؟

@MsSweeney Shwmae!

Dia daoibh! Conas tá 'sibh?

MrsSchadenfreude esti stabilita acolo? Iti place?

Ooo, nu mã asteptam la asta.

少し日本語もできます

Dis is Muire duit a Billy. Tá mé go maith. Agus tú féin?

Typing fadas is a pain in the arse

Das Hauptgrund, vermute ich, ist dass es nicht so viele Menschen auf diesen Foren gibt, die Fremdsprachen sprechen oder verstehen. Natürlich würde ich Themenstränge auf verschiedenen Sprachen (und zwar Deutsch, Italiano oder русский язык) auch mögen, doch hängt das davon ab, wieviele andere das auch wollen!

(I'm a modern languages graduate, I couldn't resist!)

Reqardez Les mamans classiques.
Vous avez le francais a l'ecole et le pigeon francais.
L'anglais est le language dans angliterres.
Je m'escuse pour le merde francais

@39Shanice7696
Te es un showoff frauline

Tá mé liom go raibh maith agat JaneJeffer

My phone puts them on automatically

If I wanted to practice my German I'd go on a German parents' website. (Which would be quite cool because I wouldn't have to give backstory about why my kids started school at 6 or why they walk to school alone at 7 and don't wear a uniform, they do skiing but we're not posh etc). I come here for the English!

@mssweeney faswn i’n hoffi ymarfer fy nghymraeg.

@28BillywigSting
Cead mile failte
I seriously couldn't CBA with translation apps
[Shamrock]

안녕하세요? 한국어 말씀하시는 분도 있어세요?

@PetitTorteois a @Proseccoinamug

Sut dych chi? Dw i'n gwylio llawer o Pobol y Cwm . Dw i'n darllen yn dda iawn ond ysgrifennu yn wael.

If I wanted to practice my German I'd go on a German parents' website.

I've tried looking for a similar Spanish website to MN, but can't find anything I like the look of at all!

I think you may be right, sonjadog. Maybe what I need to do is find a Spanish forum dedicated to something I'm interested in. Still, my French thread in Chat (not cat ) is going quite nicely so far! It's true that there are lots of mistakes, and it would be impossible to correct all of them without making the thread very cluttered and slow, but then again even if you were chatting out loud to a native speaker, they are hardly going to correct every mistake you make!

Anyone else imagining MNHQ moderators frantically trying to Google Translate some of the less familiar language symbols posted above?😟😁

Ciao @Cittadina vivi in Italia o Inghilterra? Io vivo in Inghilterra da quando avevo cinque anni.

Ai mai trovato un forum Italiano come mumsnet? Quelli che ho trovato io sono tutti un po' troppo 'twee'

Ci sono parecchi siti italiani per mamme, l'unico problema e' che si limitano a parlare dalla mattina alla sera di febbre- pappa- igiene- sudore- ecc. Dove assolutamente la maggior parte delle donne si definivono mamme e basta. Noiaaaa.
Tanti anni fa trovai uno un po' piu' Mumsnettesco, pero nn mi ricordo come si chiamava.

Like many (most) on this thread, I'm a languages graduate (French and Spanish) but have been in Italy for a million years (feels like)

MN is not a moderated site, so there's no policy on language. Of course offensive posts can be removed but everything is not constantly monitored, it depends on user reports.