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Re: Blogging bilingually
by Suw Charman
Ton, I agree with everything you say there. I can't face translating posts because I'm not a native Welsh speaker so I have to deal with the effort of using a language which does not always come so easily to me. I am pretty fluent, but my dictionary remains well thumbed. When I had the two blogs I would blog about totally different things in the different langauges - I don't have the ability to blog about complex concepts in Welsh so my blog posts tend to be simpler and therefore, I fear, boring. That doesn't help with the motivation either because I hate the thought that I might be being boring! As you say, making a decision to blog in a language other than English does make it feel rather artificial, particularly as I'm thinking not 'what do I want to blog about today?' but 'what am I capable of blogging about in Welsh?'. The content of the blog is limited not by my imagination but by my fluency. Luckily, I do get some feedback in Welsh, even on some of my English posts, and have always been open to having Welsh language conversations on here. Indeed I have already had one comment in Welsh in the new Cymraeg section, so that's quite pleasing. (Thanks Rhods!) Atm, my Welsh blogging output is likely to remain quite low, but I wonder if, as time goes on, it might suffer category bloat. I'm not really sure. I need to do a bit more experimenting with categories and see how it pans out. Certainly, though, it's easier to do it with categories than to use two blogs, like Joi does for his English and Japanese blogs. Tried that, didn't work for me, although how much of that is down to me not liking Blogger is anyone's guess. ;-)
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