Working on a Science Fiction project

[benlehman]

I'm working on a science fiction book. It's set in the near-future, maybe ~%50 in Asia, and the rest scattered around the world. Part of the goal of the book is to have people using a lot of different languages, including code-switching (changing languages in the middle of a conversation to make a particular point), pidgins, and other multi-lingual behaviors.

Would people be willing to help me with translation? Or help me find people who might be able to help me with translation?

Languages I'll probably need to so far:
Awkward foreigner-style Chinese (I got this one covered)
Japanese
Korean
Burmese
Ghanan
Bengali (I'll settle for another South Asian language)
Tamil
Uighur
Russian
Finnish
Sami (I recognize that it is really unlikely to just find someone who will just translate Sami for me for free but, hey, it's the internet.)
Spanish, particularly US-style spanish.

Plus general advice from any trained linguists that might happen to be around.

Remember, it's just a story. It's okay to get things a little bit wrong. So even if you're not a native speaker, you're probably a lot of help to me.

edit: Linux.

Comments

[gbsteve.livejournal.com]

I could have helped had it been French, my siblings and I use quite a lot of franglais when we talk and it was the lingua franca of early French roleplaying too, things like "je prends mon sword plus one" or "je le resurrectionne". Nothing quite as wonderful as Miles Kington's "soddez cela pour une alouette" though.

former_pirate might be able to help. He can even speak Latin.

And good luck with the novel, that's a major undertaking.

[opticalbinary.livejournal.com]

If you end up needing Esperanto, look me up.

[bigbluebackpack.livejournal.com]

I can do US-style Spanish, no problema. Russian I'm OK on, and I've been brushing up a bit, and I work with real Russians so I can probably have them check my work.

If you'll buy me the book, I'll study the Ghanan...the language of KWASHIORKOR!

[kitsuchan.livejournal.com]

I can do the Japanese if you can't find someone better. But you can probably find someone with better Japanese.

[moreocean.livejournal.com]

Pinche carbron!

[zigguratbuilder.livejournal.com]

I can do Japanese.

[locke61dv.livejournal.com]

i've got quite poor bengali at your service