An OI foreign language section?

[Stephen唐士明]

Hi!

http://www.revleft.com/vb/honesty-best-policy-t71996/index.html

I note that you have a new section for serious discussions between capitalists and communists (OI Learning (http://www.revleft.com/vb/oi-learning-f233/index.html)). Would it be possible to set up such a subforum for non-English speakers? This would enrich the cultural environment of your site.

Respectfully,

Stephen唐士明

[RedAnarchist]

Although this is only my personal observation, it seems to me that the vast majority of OI'ers speak English as a first language, although I do know of exceptions. This would make such a subforum very much underused.

[jake williams]

In addition, the non-English forums on the main site don't get used very much - even in common languages like French and Dutch.

[OneNamedNameLess]

Perhaps we should wait until more of the regular OI users have their say on this? Obviously some non OI users would chip in too.

[F9]

We barely use normal ones, not make just for OIers.I mod the greek one, which greece is known for leftist activity, and still we are having some "dead" periods..So no..

[Jazzratt]

In addition to what fuser has covered.

The largest number of OIers I have seen posting at any one time is 7 or so. Even if every single one of these people had english as a second language it would not make sense to create non-english forums on a primarily english website.

Case (and thread) closed.