ファブリス Wrote:Sounds good to me, but is there enough interest for it? Maybe we should start with a big Japanese-only thread, I could sticky it if you want.

I'll shy away from creating or posting in that topic because I don't study any Japanese lately I mostly do passive listening once in a while, and you guys are way ahead of me! So feel free to create the topic with a generic enough title that we can sticky up, something like "General discussion in Japanese" ?

It would be good to separate beginner and intermediate or advanced Japanese, I agree, perhaps that would be less intimidating for some. I don' tknow how you'd handle this in a single topic but we can also have two sticki'ed Japanese-only topics : one beginner, (english allowed?), and one intermediate/advanced.

wrightak Wrote:Writing bilingual posts sounds like a lot of work to me...

Creating more Japanese only threads sounds like a good idea but I have a request: Can we change the font? I find it quite small and when it's in faded grey italics (for quotes), it's very difficult to read.

Nukemarine Wrote:Fabrice mentioned before he's reticent about creating new forums that are likely to have little use.

My vote goes for 3 stickied threads similar to what Magamo and Thermal suggested. Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced. Now, there's no "rule" what goes in any of them. More of a guideline. If there's a gentleman's agreement on use of invisotext for English or other languages, post how on top post.

Traffic on the three threads can determine if there's need of it's own dedicated sub-forum.

Quote:Edit: Can you change the font size in your browser, wrightak? Or do you mean you only want to use larger fonts for Japanese characters?

Tobberoth Wrote:The problem is that the japanese threads we have aren't being used, for several reasons.

1. People don't know where they belong (I personally find some posts in the intermediate thread to be quite advanced while other posts are quite simple, "intermediate" is becoming too wide possibly).
2. People can't have several discussions there since it's just one thread. If you want to talk about something, you're destroying other peoples discussions, it's hard to find posts which matter to your own line of discussion. Basically, it's thread which is supposed to go off-topic constantly.

I think an new forum is a good idea, and each thread should be labeled. So I could start one called:
環境問題について話そう(中級) while someone else creates one called 自己紹介(初級).
I think people would find it easier to find threads they can use and contribute to, making it more useful than the current japanese threads which aren't used at all.

Nukemarine Wrote:IceCream, people are free to post in any language from what I'm noticing. The conversation becomes limited in who participates to be sure.

Hmm, guess it can go down to the person starting the thread can request the replies be in a certain language (Japanese, Dutch, German, Spanish, etc.) though English is assumed to be default language. Should enough Japanese threads start popping up, Fabrice can determine if it warrants its own forums.

So, leave it like it is? Maybe add a note to the forums that posts in Japanese or any language are more than welcome? I see no problem with multi lingual threads popping up in all the forums.

Musashi Wrote:

Nukemarine Wrote:IceCream, people are free to post in any language from what I'm noticing. The conversation becomes limited in who participates to be sure.

Hmm, guess it can go down to the person starting the thread can request the replies be in a certain language (Japanese, Dutch, German, Spanish, etc.) though English is assumed to be default language. Should enough Japanese threads start popping up, Fabrice can determine if it warrants its own forums.

So, leave it like it is? Maybe add a note to the forums that posts in Japanese or any language are more than welcome? I see no problem with multi lingual threads popping up in all the forums.

Hardly. I entered a line of Dutch and was tapped on the back by a certain person (you know who you are) that we're only allowed to speak 'American' here.

bodhisamaya Wrote:It had to have been a joke. It would be unlikely anyone would be serious about that comment. This site doesn't originate in America after all. Fabrice even congratulated a user for starting a Spanish thread a while back I believe.