#bilingual writer

[geekord]

I love writing fanfics, and using a word, for then to think for a moment and search up that word to see if it really means what I think it means, or I just have been assuming incorrectly for the last few years the meaning of that word. lol

#fanfic writing #bilingual writer

[streets-in-paradise]

I don't know if this is going to make any sense for other people but i'm gonna share it anyways because it's a bit of a funny experience I have as an spanish/ english pseudo bilingual person.

Before even getting to write the two Pirates of the Caribbean requests I have on the list, after I will finish with the Troy ones, I have to watch the whole franchise again because i need to learn how to make this characters speak on English.

I grew up to the original three films and, as any latin american kid in the 2000's that was fan of the franchise, I used to watch those on the non stop repetitions of Disney Channel. Later as an adult I rewatched the films on English, but i spent most of my formation years watching the dubbed version in latín american spanish.

This is a thing that happens to me with Pirates of the Caribbean but not with Troy because, back then, the cable channels where i would have to watch Troy always had it on spanish subtítuled English ( because channels like TNT or HBO only used subtítules), while POTC was always in latin spanish on a children's channel.

I had a literal obsession over those films, my sister and i would quote pirates of the caribbean like memes as kids. We even repeated super oscure references that didn't became obvious memes later like the " I got a jar of dirt! " ( That we would say like " Aquí tengo un jarrón!! Que crees que hay adentro??"). For example, from that very same scene, my sister used to use another Jack quote " Viniste a negociar, pulpo asqueroso" everytime she wanted to blackmail someone. ( And still says it as a joke to our cat when he gets fussy lol)

I remember the first 3 films by heart, but in spanish. In English I know the most iconic quotes and some full scenes, but not the whole films with the same passionate precision I have in my memories of the spanish version.

I literally have to learn how this characters speak on English in order to write them.

#bilingual writer #bilingual writer problems #pirates of the caribbean #fanfict writing

[alquimista-putrefacta]

la alquimista

24 peces en el estanque.

escribo porque mi alma se comunica conmigo por medio de letras vagas y palabras inexistentes.

escribo cuando mi espíritu grita; cuando mi ánima murmura lo que sintió hace dos mil años; cuando mis entrañas recuerdan lo que una vez fue, pero nunca pasó; lo que mi voluntad anheló y anhelará.

¿sabías que las vacas tienen mejores amigas? :)

también me expreso en inglés porque creo que cada lengua tiene una forma diferente de transmitir sentimientos. please be kind if my writing is worth less than a forgotten pamphlet on the floor★.

actualmente estoy en proceso de escribir un libro. ¿a caso verá algún día los ojos de alguien más que los de su creadora?

#writers on tumblr #escritores #escritor tumblr #escritor solitario #writer #female writers #writeblr #escritor en tumblr #escritora #writing community #bilingual writer

[annyinacastle]

Snippet (Swedish + English)

On Friday evenings I take the time and effort to, instead of writing, translate Blood of Destinies Rewritten into my native language, Swedish.

In part, this is because I want all of my work to be available in both languages (and I'll send the Swedish editions to publishers, while the English editions are going to be self-published, generally speaking).

It's also helping in making edits because I need to rethink sentences and sentence structure. I always originally draft in English these days. I'd probably do that for things like essays and such as well, even if I had to translate it later. (Note that I'm a translator though.)

So here's a snippet from this week's translation, in Swedish first, and then in English. The Swedish snippet is in its baby stage and is unedited and does need some work, lol, while the English got through some work once before I started my translation project, but obviously needs work too.

Swedish

Beröringen var förvånansvärt försiktig och häpnadsväckande kall, lindrande och smärtsam på samma gång. Trots detta var flickan fast besluten att inte visa någonting, för att inte inte förolämpa kejsarens klan. Prinsen tog hennes haka och lutade hennes huvud för att kunna se henne bättre.

»Vad obarmhärtigt.» Prinsen uttryckte sitt missnöjde och studerade den rött svullna kinden. »Sade fader kejsaren åt dig att du ska slå de vackraste flickorna? Att slå dem tills de är gräsliga att se på?»

»N-nej, självklart inte, Ers Nådiga Höghet. Det var ett misstag, ett misstag.»

Prinsen släppte flickans »Så bråttom han har att förklara att det var ett misstag.»

English

The touch was surprisingly gentle and astoundingly cold, simultaneously soothing and painful. Yet the girl was determined not to show anything, lest she offended the Imperial Clan. Taking her chin, the Prince tilted her head to get a good look at her.

“So ruthless.” The Prince tsked while studying the red and swelling cheek. “Did Father Emperor instruct you to hit the prettiest girls? To beat them until they’re ugly?”

“N-no, of course not, Your Royal Highness. It was my mistake, my mistake.”

The Prince let go of the girl. “So quick to declare it was a mistake.”

#Blood of Destinies Rewritten #BoDR WIP #Öden omskrivna i blod #writeblr #wip snippet #bilingual writer #multilingual writer #I guess you will note that I use different punctuation in Swedish #It has a super simple explanation #I have my software set to English punctuation rules and smart quotation follows that #and also have a habit for English quotation mark rules (left-right “ ” or 66 99) instead of Swedish (right-right ” ” or 99 99) #To avoid mental confusion I went with guillemet instead and not having to change every damn initial character of a spoken line. #Capitalisation also works differently between Swedish and English #Trivia: Ers Nådiga Höghet is an obsolete address in Swedish #But it works for this to avoid the reference to a king in ‟kunglig‟ so I dug it out of history #This is historical fantasy set centuries prior to the uses of either in Swedish and in a very different area of the world anyway so why not

[zevarcollan]

#bilingualism is handy in these situations #unless I forget the word in both languages #writing #writers #writers on tumblr #writing memes

[saintfrancesworld]

Currently filled with a strange and envious longing of those who are fluent in more than one language, who can read and write poetry in more than one language.

(Spanish is calling to me. I will answer.)

#text post #text #spanish #language #langblr #bilingual #español #original content #spilled ink #writers on tumblr #words #spilled words #writers and poets #romantic academia #classic academia #chaotic academia #light academia #dark academia #spain #mexico #latin america #2024 #europe #spilled thoughts #thoughts #education #california #poetry #writers of tumblr #writers and readers

[belle-keys]

I've been quiet these days... It's because I co-wrote and published a bilingual children's book set in my home country! Written in English and Spanish, my book is titled JUANITA and it's about the contemporary migrant experience in the Caribbean from a child's perspective.

JUANITA is the ideal tool for both children and adults to learn English or Spanish as a second language. It features a main story, reading comprehension questions, vocabulary lists, and written reflection exercises.

And guess what! It's available right now worldwide on Amazon in both Kindle and paperback format!

Link to Kindle purchase: here!

Link to paperback purchase: here!

Link to Goodreads page: here!

Give us a purchase, rate, and review if you would like! For language learners and people looking for Hispanic and/or Caribbean representation, JUANITA is my recommendation to you!

#writer #writeblr #children's literature #children's lit #children's books #langblr #languages #foreign languages #spanish #spanish language #spanish langblr #caribbean #west indian #latin america #latinx #hispanic #book recommendations #book recs #author #debut book #book blog #books #books and literature #language learning #polyglot #bilingual

[houseofache]

— it's a weird feeling being an english grad and a person of colour

#this one's for all my “whitewashed” girlies i love u <3 #writing #creative writing #on writing #language #tagalog #filipino #poetry #bilingual poem #bilingual poetry #filcan #filcan writing #my writing #writings #writer #writers on tumblr #writers and poets #female writers #writers of colour #prose poetry #poets #poems and poetry #poets on tumblr

[anyablackwood]

Tip for writers trying to make their story more immersive:

If your characters are supposed to be speaking in another (real life) language, but you're writing it in (for example) English (ex: the story takes place in medieval France but you're an English-speaking author writing it for an English-speaking audience), looking into the language's structure can be extremely helpful!

Obviously things like looking into connotations behind terms or trying to find colloquial equivalents to common expressions is more important, but if you really want to go the extra mile, figuring out if your dialogue makes sense in both languages can be a good idea!

For example, Japanese doesn't have gendered pronouns. It ironically has a boat load of pronouns, but none of them are gendered and for the most part, native speakers don't use any in a conversation once the subject has been established. Most of them are different variations of "I/me/my" (which is technically the same word) or "you/your/yours", and they also ironically go entirely unused in a conversation. Plural or gender-neutral pronouns, such as "they" also don't exist in the way it does in English; and they're also omitted 99% of the time in conversation.

So if your characters are having a conversation in Japanese, and they bring up someone's pronouns

Example:

"You have a girlfriend? That's good! What's her name?" "His name is Michael." "His...? Oh."

That is structurally impossible! There is no "she" or "his"! The conversation's structure, directly translated, would sound something like

"Made girlfriend? Good! Name is?" "Name is Michael."

There's not even a way for them to respond with "His?" because the word itself literally doesn't exist. In that case, you could make sure he says "My boyfriend's name is Michael." The name itself would obviously tip them off on its own, but if you want it to run smoothly in both English and Japanese, adding "boyfriend" and having them focus on that term would work.

Again, this isn't strictly necessary, and you're not a bad writer if you choose not to! It's just something that I noticed a lot when reading stories like this. As a bilingual person, it can kind of break my immersion a bit when the characters have what is essentially an impossible conversation, but it doesn't necessarily ruin the story and the world won't end just because I'm occasionally pulled out due to logistics. My chemist sister doesn't read a lot of sci-fi because she gets too absorbed in the probabilities of the science involved, but that doesn't invalidate sci-fi as a genre or any authors whose stories don't fully hold up under that level of scrutiny! It's just something I giggle at when I come across.

I've seen people arguing on online forums trying to prove a character's gender in an anime using subtitles or dub clips, and it never fails to make me laugh when they aggressively circle/clip and loop the "he" in the sentence. Sure, official translators have likely communicated with the original studio and confirmed these translations as accurate, but even so, that's for an English-speaking audience's ease of interpretation. They've done it before with Pokemon's infamous "jelly donuts". It's highly possible the studio just agreed because they've never heard of gender-neutral pronouns or just didn't really care.

#language #japanese #writeblr #writing tips #writerscommunity #just a little idea #again it's not strictly necessary! Just for if you're REALLY tryna sell the immersion to bilingual readers #so basically just for me lol #no pressure to those anime fanfic writers lmao #but on that note if you're gonna write a high school ff for example make sure the timeline adds up? I'll make a separate post about that

[joliackermann]

When you have a really good joke and it only works in one language but you need it to work in a different language BUT IT JUST DOES NOT (ㆆ_ㆆ)

#multilingual #bilingual #bilingual problems #I hate my life #This joke would have been so good #writers problems

[jewishicequeen]

Have to say, English not being my first language is actually a blessing when writing fics.

Do I make mistakes? Absolutely. Are my typos just horrible sometimes? Yep. But my inner critic is even worse in English then I am and it can't cringe at what it can't read.

#it's not that i don't do a WHOLE LOT of fixing and edits. but i don't stress it nearly as much #i can just get the story out #writing #writers on tumblr #bilingual #fanfiction

[29625]

TW: Mentions of abuse and toxic family relationships. Discussion on the familial trauma and military homophobia.

Slimav story idea based on my own trauma literally. Kinda vent-y. If that’s your jam, read below!

You get that feeling when you see your friend who grew up in a healthy family interact with their family in a very normal and affectionate way that you are never gonna be one of them and you will keep messing it up and if you ever have a family you’re just gonna recreate the whole cycle over and over and over again, even if all you ever crave is a healthy, loving relationship? Yeah, me too. I grew up in an abusive family where I often got beaten and locked outside and all the psychological stuff n whatnot that left me pretty broken, and I’m still recovering. When my friend’s dad patted her on the head that shit just triggered me for some reason. I cried a little because cause I’m just too broken to achieve that. Every single relationship I’ve had ended up looking like my parents’ (fortunately) ex marriage.

Maybe it’s because I skipped my mood stabilizer last night on the plane? Maybe my circadian rhythm is just so fucked by the jet lag it’s messing my brain? Dunno. I’m just gonna project that onto my next chapter.

So, just in case if you’re tolerating this far, I’m assuming neither Slider and Mav had a decent childhood. Slider is from a lower-middle immigrant family from Eastern German that lacked a stable father figure and a support for his sexuality (except for his brother, Danny Kerner, that is.) while Mav just struggled to earn a love outside of romantic relationships and his brotherly bond with Goose. Slider is just afraid of repeating the seemingly endless cycle of pain and hatred inside his own house while Mav can never be fulfilled without his romantic bond with Slider. Slider slowly withdraws as Mav clings to him further and further. They also have to endure the constant oppression they face in the military and Slider just doesn’t want that happening to his lover as a gay guy who’s seen things while Mav is…Mav, and he’s all about crashing and burning, a true ride or die. Both don’t know what to do in this situation until they do. Set in Ice’s wedding. Sli is just so happy for his bro who’s also grown up in a shitty family but thinks wow I can never be able to do that. Mav takes it poorly. They both think about their past, present, and future that may or may not be available for them but seemingly accessible for everyone else including Ice, even though they know he’s struggled as well (might include a slight bit mention of privileges because I literally study it)

#slimav #slider x maverick #top gun 1986 #ron slider kerner #top gun fanfiction #pete maverick mitchell #ao3 writer #TW #TRIGGER WARNING ABUSE #also #I’m assuming Slider to be mixed ethnicity but he’s got no idea what his true identity is #because his bio dad left him when he was young and it was a big no no to talk about him #Danny could be his half-brother who is like ten years younger #he’s a ER nurse because I say so #he’s experienced so many different cultures from many of his mom’s bf and that’s why he’s so cultured #he was practically raised by his non-English speaking grandma and he’s secretly a bilingual #he’s like he knows he’s German but he doesn’t feel like he’s fully German #boom #isolation

[daughter-of-inklings]

An underrated pro of making your protagonist bilingual is that, if you can't remember the English thing-

neither can she;

#ink’s scribbles #writeblr #fantasy writeblr #fantasy writing #writing #writers on tumblr #fantasy novel #bilingual #spanish #spanish writing #gasalea: the book keeper #rosely aragorn castillo #pros of having your fantasy protagonist reverse isekai'ed to florida: #1. she speaks spanish so you have to think less #2. ???? #i probably will have to go back through and make it a more obvious and recurring thing to give the gringos a bit of a harder time #but for now this works

[deadjournalist]

anyone else a writer and also bilingual? because me being one, I recently decided to put myself thru the ultimate hell and and began writing in both the languages I speak and honestly imma drive myself insane soon :'D

#why is being bilingual so hard #writers on tumblr #writing community #writer #bilingual #writing #writer things

[6vaguebook]

Has anyone else who has a laptop with a multi-language keyboard ever typed an entire paragraph without looking at their screen and realised just a little too late they've been typing in the wrong language?

#writeblr #writing #writers on tumblr #writing memes #writing jokes #writing funny #funny #keyboard #Typing #bilingual

[aweisz]

monolingual people really don't know how to write multilingual people do they

#“*pet name in a foreign language* *phrase in english*” NOBODY WOULD NATURALLY SAY THAT #like yeah it's almost a tradition now but it makes me wanna kill and maim and commit felonies #(and yes it is the easiest way to show that the character is bilingual because the writer doesn't need to learn the foreign language— #—but imo it would be more believable just not to use the language at all. or to write something like “x mumbled something in *language*”) #i wanted to write a longer explanation not in the tags but decided not to so if someone wants to read my musings on the topic tell me— #—and i will write something longer