Sub-forums in other languages?

trumpetherald · Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2023 12:25 pm Post subject:

I have seriously considered starting some non-English forums on TH. I speak a little French.

Do users think having, for example, forums in French and German would be worthwhile?

Est-ce que vous pensez qu'un « forum » en français ou allemand serait géniale? Ou, non?

kehaulani · Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2023 12:34 pm Post subject:

When I lived in Germany, I used a German Forum that was pretty helpful at the time. It's still around so, if you started one here, I think it would be redundant.

https://trompetenforum.de/TF/
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trumpetherald · Posted: Sat Feb 18, 2023 7:41 am Post subject:

delano · Posted: Sat Feb 18, 2023 3:48 pm Post subject:

I follow Trompetenforum.de so now and then but I can’t recommend it.

Voltrane · Posted: Sun Feb 19, 2023 2:12 am Post subject:

Brassnose · Posted: Sun Feb 19, 2023 4:54 am Post subject:

https://www.trompetenforum.de/TF/ is pretty good and the tone does not get out of hand as fast as I sometimes see it happen here. People seem more relaxed in a way. It is, however, a lot less active than TH. I assign this to the much smaller number of people contributing.

EDIT: I work in France often and it is my experience that a lot of French folks would appreciate a French speaking site (I don’t talk trumpets, but this applies to other stuff as well).
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Voltrane · Posted: Sun Feb 19, 2023 5:59 am Post subject:

Brassnose,
one interest of TH is it is International, so you can have information and opinion from « elsewhere », not only from the street where you live.
One other interest, by the way, is you can practice English in an interesting way

Regarding people that want a French speaking forum, it is ok but the past French forums died of the lack of participation…(by the way, as far as I know, matrompette.com is from Switzerland and is quite sleeping).
So be careful, it is the same thing as the Selmer trumpet closing: everyone in France was crying but everyone bought a Bach, a Yamaha, and so on.

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