r/syriancivilwar•11 yr. ago

/r/SyrianCivilWar Official Translation Volunteer List

First off, big thanks from the moderation team to everyone who stepped forward to put their name in the mix to help with translation. We had originally asked for a narrow set of languages but it turns out a LOT of you speak a wide range of foreign languages and with the international nature of this conflict it only helps to have more language speakers of a wide variety so I went ahead and compiled all languages offered (except Klingon and Australian, sorry u/tony_abbottpbuh and u/zandaq ). If you would like to be added to the list, PM me (or any mod, but I'll be the one editing it) your information in the following format.

u/SampleUser[1]
Language: Arabic
Dialects: Gulf/Egyptian
Proficiency: native fluency in Gulf, near-native fluency in Egyptian
Willing to translate: videos/written text.

We'll go ahead and stick this in the sidebar when I figure out how to do that (or one of the smarter mods does it for me). Here ya go:

ARABIC

u/hbz55
Language: Arabic, French
Dialect: Tunisian
Proficiency: Native
Willing to translate: text and video, short to medium length

u/bernardd55
Languages: Arabic/French
Dialect: Levantine
Proficiency: Native
Willing to translate: all

u/DistortedLines
Languages: Arabic
Dialects: Syria/Lebanon/Gulf
Proficiency: Native in Syrian/Lebanese, can understand gulf/ Egyptian for the most part. Will translate videos and texts.

u/I-Should_Be-Studying
Language: Arabic, Norwagin, Swedish, Danish
Dialect: Iraqi
Proficiency: basic listening, basic reading
Willing to translate: short audio passages, short reading passages

u/vivasecularsyria
Language: Arabic
Dialect: Syrian
Proficiency: Fluent
Willing to translate: Will translate anything you want when I am free

u/FoundinMystery
Language: Arabic/French.
Dialect: levantine arabic(Jordanian), pretty much understand all except Some northern African accents.
Proficiency: fluent
Willing to translate: Videos, audio.

u/Montreal-Syrian
Language: Arabic and French
Dialects: Syria/Lebanon
Proficiency : 100% Oral ; 100% Written. Native Fluency Syrian/Lebanese. Willing to translate Gulf/Egyptian.
Willing to translate: Videos and Written. Will not/Cannot translate Maghreb Arabic. Expect a couple of hours of delay.

u/Azuremarine
Language: Arabic
Dialects: Syrian/palastinian/lebanese/iraqi/egyptian/jordanian/gulf.
Proficiency: fluency in all.
Willing to translate: video/articles

u/hazrid -Language: Arabic
Dialects: Fusha, Levant Dialects (Urban dialects and multiple Rural dialects), North Egyptian, Baghdadi.
Proficiency: native fluency in all except some of the rural dialects of the Levant.
Willing to translate: videos, audio, text.

u/reebs81
Language: Arabic
Dialects: Lebanese, Syrian, Jordanian, Palestinian, Iraqi... might struggle a bit with north African/gulf accents
Proficiency: native Lebanese
Willing to translate: videos, audio, text

u/majdman
Language: Arabic
Dialect: Levantine & Iraqi Arabic
Proficiency: Fluency in all
Willing to translate: anything that's not too long

u/tanjara
Language: Arabic
Dialects: Levantine
Proficiency: Native
Willing to translate: anything

u/nerses96
Language: Armenian, Arabic, Turkish, English
Dialect: Syrian
Proficiency: Fluent reading/writing/speaking in Armenian, Arabic, English. Basic Turkish speaking.
Willing to translate: short audio passages, short reading passages when available.

u/Feylikurd
language:arabic
dialect:iraqi
proficiency:ok-moderate depending on which city they are from
willing to translate:short videos and text

u/TITTIES_AND_ASS
Language: Arabic, Spanish, & English
Dialect: Any, but most confident with the Iraqi dialect.
Proficiency: Top notch.
Availability: Whenever I can, I'll translate.
Willing to translate: Prefer to translate audio.

u/Muzzly
Language: Arabic
Dialect: Mesopotamian
Proficiency: native fluency in Mesopotamian and MSA
Willing to translate: videos, audio, text (news, scripture etc), please no debates or anything too time-consuming (30 minutes tops)

u/BforBewbies
Language: Arabic
Dialects: Levantine
Proficiency: Native to al-Hassakah, Syria. Very fluent...
Willing to translate: anything

u/souriii
Language: Arabic
Dialects: might struggle a bit with north African/gulf accents
Proficiency: native fluency in Syrian
Willing to translate: videos, audio, text

u/refikoglumd
Language : Malay/Indonesian(they are mutually intelligible), Arabic, Turkish, English.
Dialects : All dialects of Malay, some Indonesian, Modern Standard Arabic, Levantine Arabic
Proficiency : Native Malay speaker, fairly fluent in Arabic, basic Turkish
Willing to translate : Articles/videos..but depending on my schedule

BALKAN LANGUAGES

u/Valensz
Language: Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian
Dialects: all
Proficiency: native, can read both Latin and Cyrillic scripts
Willing to translate: whatever

u/krofna1
Language: Croatian/Bosnian/Serbian
Proficiency: native
Willing to translate: anything

u/Sinisa26
Language: Serbian/Croatian/Bosnian
Dialects: All
Proficiency: Native fluency
Willing to translate: Anything at all

u/Gambolina
Language: Croatian, Serbian, Bosnian, Montenegrin
Dialects: None
Proficency: native fluency
Willing to translate: all

CHINESE

u/winnilourson
Language:French, Chinese
Dialect: Native in French, perfect understanding from Parisian/African/Maghreb Slang, Cantonese
Proficiency:Native/Fluent

u/VitaleTegn
Language: Chinese
Dialect: Mandarin
Proficiency: Very basic reading
Willing to translate: Short text Note: I am actively advancing my knowledge of Mandarin and I will PM you again when I feel that I've expanded my skill enough for higher placement.

FRENCH

u/Dont_LookAtMyName
Languages: French, Armenian
Dialect: Quebecois French, Western Armenian
Proficiency: fluent

u/FoundinMystery
Language: Arabic/French.
Dialect: levantine arabic(Jordanian), pretty much understand all except Some northern African accents.
Proficiency: fluent
Willing to translate: Videos, audio.

u/bernardd55
Languages: Arabic/French
Dialect: Levantine
Proficiency: Native
Willing to translate: all

u/SwordOfPontus
Languages: French
Dialects: France, Quebec
Proficiency: Native fluency in understanding, speech. Translation to French and writing takes longer. Not too much experience with Maghreb and African dialects, but it's fun to learn. Willing to translate: everything

u/HankAuclair
Languages: French
Dialects: Canadian/European
Proficiency: 100% fluency in written and oral (native language).
Willing to translate: videos/written text

u/Ashihna
Language: Turkish, German, English, (Italian, French)
Dialect: Western Anatolian, Austrian, British
Proficiency: Fluent (basic reading for Italian & French)
Willing to translate: audio, videos, articles of moderate lenghts. Depending on my schedule.

u/dis_mah_mobile_one
Language: French
Dialect: Parisian, but there are no large differences between North African French and what's spoken in Europe, aside from Switzerland.
Proficiency: fluent except for slang.
Willing to translate: anything provided I have the time.

u/winnilourson
language: French (Canadian/Quebecois French), I have a perfect understanding of Parisian and Northern African slang.
proficiency: native
Willing to translate: after the 15th December all the time in the world.

u/NorrisoBE
Language: French
Dialects: Native, Quebecois, African, Maghrebi/North African
Proficiency:A2 - B1 French Proficiency, can also speak Bahasa Malaysia and Japanese.
Willing to translate: Text and videos.

u/Ernest_Frawde
Language: French, Norwegian
Proficiency: Fluent French, intermediate Norwegian
Willing to translate: Audio, video, text of any length depending on time available.

u/Chaucer
Language: French
Dialects: West African (Ivoirian, Malian, Nigerien, Burkinabè, etc.)
Proficiency: near-native fluency
Willing to translate: Yes, in the unlikely scenario that AQIM starts making inroads farther south and this knowledge becomes relevant.

GERMAN/DUTCH/AFRIKAANS

u/StPauli
Language: German
Dialect: Proper German (Hochdeutsch)
Proficiency: Native speaker, professional translation experience
Willing to translate: Any document/video as time permits

u/Ashihna
Language: Turkish, German, English, (Italian, French)
Dialect: Western Anatolian, Austrian, British
Proficiency: Fluent (basic reading for Italian & French)
Willing to translate: audio, videos, articles of moderate lenghts. Depending on my schedule.

u/DasFluspferd
Language: German, Dutch, Afrikaans, West Frisian
Dialects: (Multiple German) Proficiency: part of my work requires active German to English translations, limited literacy Dutch, Afrikaans and West Frisian.
Willing to translate: audio, Videos, text

u/Jelmervdv
Language: Dutch/Flemish/German
Dialects: All
Proficiency: native fluency in Dutch, near-native fluency in Flemish, High school German
Willing to translate: everything.

u/karimr
Language: German
Dialect: Unless they are speaking hard Bavarian or Saxon dialects (which Germans who are involved in Syria do not) I can understand everything
Proficiency: native speaker
Willing to translate: Although most of the videos from German jihadists in Syria probably do have some translation already, I'll gladly translate everything that might come up.

u/Inzingping
Language: Dutch
Dialects: Limburgs

u/YK42
Language: Turkish, Dutch, English (obv)
Dialects: 'Rural'/Anatolian, it's a bit more 'rough' sounding since I've not received any Turkish education
Proficiency: fluent in all

u/MesmerizingMe
Languages: Dutch, Scandinavian (Swedish/Norwegian/Danish)
Proficiency: Fluent in Dutch, Norwegian, Swedish and Danish, understand all dialect in every language mentioned.
Willing to translate: Everything

HEBREW

u/Blameshift
Language: Hebrew
Dialects: There are no actual dialects in Hebrew :)
Proficiency: Fluent speaking & reading Willing to translate:
Willing to translate: On my free time i will, can pretty much translate anything

u/asaz989
Language: Hebrew
Proficiency: Fluent
Willing to translate: Everything (I have a bit of a problem with handwriting, though)

u/blackstonebite
Language: Russian, Hebrew
Dialect: There are no dialects in Russian and Hebrew
Proficiency: native Russian speaker, fluent Hebrew
Willing to translate: videos/articles

KURDISH

u/Schweinii
Language: Kurdish, Swedish, English.
Dialect: Kurdish: Sorani, Zazaki.
Proficiency: fluent
Willing to translate: Pretty much everything if it's not too long.

u/Hazardous_Entity
Language: Kurdish
Dialects: Sorani
Proficiency: Fluent, can't read though.
Willing to translate: videos/audios

u/CouldBeALemon
Language: Kurdish
Dialect: Kurmanci(South Turkey, Syria)
Proficiency: Basic listening
Willing to translate: Anything audio related.

u/bjz9
Language: Kurdish
Dialect: Kurmanci
Proficiency: Fluent
Willing to translate: Audio/Video

u/straightouttasweden
Language: Kurdish, Swedish
Dialects: Sorani
Proficiency: Fluent in Kurdish and Swedish, willing to translate: Videos (when spoken orally) for Kurdish, everything for Swedish

PERSIAN

u/KingQajar
Language: Persian
Dialects: Farsi
Proficiency: Fluent
Willing to translate: Videos, audio, documents

u/Valos01[1]
Language: Persian
Dialect: Farsi
Proficiency: basic listening, no reading
Willing to translate: Audio

u/AfghanFace[6]
Language: Farsi, Urdu/Hindi, Arabic
Dialect: Dari mainly but I understand Iranian farsi too. Khaliji arabic.
Proficiency: Fluent in Farsi, can read Arabic with basic listening. For Urdu and Hindi, I can speak both but I can't read Hindi.
Willing to translate: Short Videos and audio, short passages etc

PORTUGUESE/SPANISH

u/blogsofjihad
Languages: Portuguese
Dialects: Azores, Mainland Portugal and Brazil
Proficiency: Grew up speaking it pretty proficient with reading it as well. Brazilian dialect is tougher but I can read it and understand.

u/yeswesodacan
Language: Spanish
Dialect: Latin American
Proficiency: Intermediate-Advanced
Willing to translate: Video/Text

u/reasonmth
Languages: Portuguese
Dialects: Brazilian
Proficiency: Native language

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