17-04-2001 01:46									#1
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This may have been discussed before, so forgive me if I'm rehashing an old topic, but...

I see quite a number of non-English speakers contributing to these forums. As a linguist and an English speaker who has lived abroad, and who is very aware of the difficulties of communicating in a language that's not your own, I just wonder whether French speakers have the possibility of discussing civ issues in French, German speakers in German, and so on. (After all, versions of civ have been published in these langs.) I know there's a Spanish civ site, and ACS has 'First Greek Civilization 2 site' in its title (where is the Greek, by the way??), but I wonder about other languages.

Would it be inappropriate to have French or German or other-language forums here at ACS? What do non-English speakers think about this?

	18-04-2001 10:43									#2
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occasionally there will be threads in other languages (ie, in the off topic theres been some)
but generally, there aren't enough speakers of any particular language to make any extra forums active. i suspect that even if those other forums existed, they'd come back to the english speaking ones because 1) they DO speak english also and 2) the english ones will be alot busier.

	18-04-2001 17:35									#3
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Before Apolyton became such a hot site, I remember doing a bunch of searches looking for Civ Sites. Some of the Sites I found were in other languages. From what I remember, I found sites in German, Spanish, French, Italian, and Japanese... Now, this was a long time ago, but maybe some of these sites are still around.

	19-04-2001 03:32									#4
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OK, so I guess from these responses that there hasn't been any demand for language-specific forums here at Apolyton.

Just wondered - thanks for responding.

	20-04-2001 00:16									#5
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I do not know of any such site in Russian. Maybe, if you had such here, I could make help somehow.

	20-04-2001 08:57									#6
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There ahs to be russian sites.
Russian sites have everything. I visit them, I know.

Sleza komsomolki, chevo plachesh?

	20-04-2001 14:33									#7
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LOL Siro.