Foreign Language Slackware Forums

Howdy Slackware World:

It is a slackware world, and there are slackers all over it, evidenced by the many threads in this forum where English was obviously a second language

With over 70,000 threads and growing, I believe this LQ slackware forum is the most useful slackware resource in the world! It's advantageous to anyone learning slackware to learn English well enough to utilize the resources of this forum (because posts at LQ are in English so the moderators can ensure healthy content).

However, conversing in one's first language is always more comfortable. I think it is threfore probable that there are many non-English forums where slackers discuss slackware in their native tongues.

A list of non-English slackware forums:

• would help connect slackers to communities of slackers speaking their first langauge.
• would help slackers proficient in non-English languages find forums to discuss slackware in those languages.
• would lead to more slackware documentation getting translated to other languages, improving slackware's global ecosystem.

I thought of this when I saw a post from a guy from Vladivostok, and having been to Vladivostok, I had to resist the urge to answer his post in Russian. Funny thing though: I don't know of any specific foreign language slackware forums to begin this list. I hope this posts manifests some.

There was a large and very active Italian Slackware community in the past: slacky.eu . A website is still there and kept updated, though it is no longer bi-lingual (Italian and English) which was handy.

These days those who speak English as a second language often have a better command of it than the natives!



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Originally Posted by Gerard Lally These days those who speak English as a second language often have a better command of it than the natives! .

rofl: indeed I made assumption about those posts and may have jumped to the wrong conclusion. It's possible they were made by the natives!

Passing the complexities of the English language from generation to generation without simplifying is backfiring. How many symbols do we need to make the "long o" sound? We have "o" as in no, "oe" as in "toe", "ow" as in "know", "ew" as in "sew", "ou" as in "dough", "eau" as in "bureau". The explanation most children get is "that's just how it is," which is why they start off already begrudging authority. They're so upset, having to learn English, that they give up on learning and escape to video games. On the other hand, growing up with sensible non-English languages doesn't discourage children from learning: they develop such strong learning habits that they later are able to master English as a second language.

Originally Posted by slac-in-the-box rofl: indeed I made assumption about those posts and may have jumped to the wrong conclusion. It's possible they were made by the in-laws! Passing the complexities of the English language from generation to generation without simplifying is backfiring. How many symbols do we need to make the "long o" sound? We have "o" as in no, "oe" as in "toe", "ow" as in "know", "ew" as in "sew", "ou" as in "dough", "eau" as in "bureau". The explanation most children get is "that's just how it is," which is why they start off already begrudging authority. They're so upset at having to learn English, that they give up on learning and escape to video games. On the other hand, growing up with sensible non-English languages doesn't discourage children from learning: they develop such strong learning habits that they later are able to master English as a second language.

Well, at least the English language does not have 4 intonations like Chinese, and depending on intonation, the word to have a total different meaning.

It's so easy for a foreigner (who believes that knew Chinese) to order a mother-in-law at dinner, while visiting a restaurant somewhere in China...

For foreigners, those intonations are really hard to be get right, from what I seen.

As of topic, I consider English on this forum being something like a Slackware's Lingua Franca, to facilitate the communication between people from different nations.

I say this as a Chinese who lives since his birth on PRC.

Originally Posted by Gerard Lally These days those who speak English as a second language often have a better command of it than the natives! .

I definitely do not, but when I see someone messing up "their" - "there" - "they're" I know he/she is a native speaker.

The francophone forum is here, but I think every French-speaking slackers will already have found it. Many are there. It's important for people not fluent in English, but it has a real interest only if competent peoples don't stay here, which is for sure the aorta of the community. It's a kind of square of the circle.