October 04, 2006

Twitch Wants You.

(Posted In Random Geek Talk )

It seems to be a seasonal thing around here as we constantly try to come to grips both with how the site is growing and how people are using it, and once again I'm here to tell you that Twitch is looking to expand its writing staff. We've just added a new regular columnist - more on that tomorrow once I've got all the behind the scenes stuff worked out, but regulars will know him and his stuff kicks ass - and right now what we are in desperate need of are more film fans with language skills to help us dive deeper into all this stuff we love from around the world. Specifically we are looking to find people bilingual in English and any of the following languages:

Japanese, Korean, Thai, Cantonese, Mandarin, Russian, Spanish, Turkish, Italian, German, French, Nigerian (or whatever they speak in Nigeria, I freely confess to not knowing), Vietnamese, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish, Icelandic (I'm looking at you, Swarez ...), Portuguese, Hindi, Farsi, Persian, or really any other language spoken in any film producing land.

What we are looking to do is increase our pool of regional specialists, people who can keep an eye on the press in their area of interest, translate what interesting news they find and bring it to us here. Twitch has been structured financially so that it covers its own costs and little to nothing beyond, so I have no money to pay, but we have a tight little community here with contributors free to carve out their own niches with little to no interference - meaning I seldom if ever 'assign' pieces and never alter posts for anything other than clarity, your content will never be messed with. We have a good time with things here, and if you've got any of the skills we're looking for please feel free to drop me a line.

» Posted by Todd at October 4, 2006 08:15 PM
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Reader Comments

While I am pretty close to fluent in Spanish, I really have no ties to the Latin American/Spanish films scene, unfortunately.

» Posted by Josh at October 4, 2006 10:49 PM

same here, fluent in hindi, urdu and punjabi but couldn't be bothered to catch up on the latest from the subcontinent :(

» Posted by TiGrBaLm at October 4, 2006 11:13 PM

Same here ;) I'm Hungarian but apart from Kontroll I havent seen any of our films in the last decade. I live in Switzerland but I'm only interested in Asian stuff. I'm perfectly fluent in google though :)

» Posted by asiafan at October 5, 2006 02:47 AM

"Icelandic (I'm looking at you, Swarez ...)" Oooh pressure.

» Posted by Swarez at October 5, 2006 05:31 AM

Igbo. They speak Igbo in Nigeria.

» Posted by Graham at October 5, 2006 08:25 AM

Nigerianese? I think they speak French in Nigeria like djimon honsou

» Posted by joeybrash at October 5, 2006 09:20 AM

german, turkish, spanish and french here
but my english is more or less crap :(

» Posted by Deniz at October 5, 2006 10:28 AM

aren't persian and farsi the same thing?

» Posted by Lola at October 5, 2006 01:12 PM

a LatinAmerican reporter would be awesome what with Argentina producing excellent films such as El Aura, El Metodo and Hormigas en la boca lately!

» Posted by heheshamone at October 5, 2006 01:56 PM

i am Russia but i cant translate for shit lol

» Posted by Roman at October 5, 2006 03:16 PM

Does Dutch count? I visit the International Film Festival Rotterdam every year...

» Posted by Ardvark at October 5, 2006 05:10 PM

They speak Igbo, Hausa, and Yoruba in Nigeria

And yes Persian and Farsi are the same thing, I can read it but can't understand it for the life of me ;)

» Posted by TiGrBaLm at October 5, 2006 05:28 PM

There are those who would argue the Persian = Farsi thing with you, including some Persian and Cypriate friends I had in college. Don't really understand the distinction myself but I don't equate them any more for fear Fariborz will track me down and slap me.

» Posted by Todd Brown at October 5, 2006 05:57 PM

>> I think they speak French in Nigeria

>> They speak Igbo, Hausa, and Yoruba in Nigeria

official language of nigeria is english. of course they have some dialect there (about 250, though the most spoken are quoted above), but people should be knowing english, so i don't think it's pretty useful to have a twitch crew speaking any dialect of nigeria ^_^

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigeria#Language

» Posted by Gilles C. at October 7, 2006 05:57 AM

I can read yellow English subtitles very well and white ones fairly ok........ just kidding around. Hope you guys find some talented peeps, TWITCH ROCKS!!!

» Posted by Farrell Kurlish at November 25, 2006 11:24 AM

Hi all. First time posting on Twitch, but been reading the site for a couple of weeks (months?) now. Great stuff here. I'm Nigerian, and would like to say that Gilles C. is correct. Although we are still not sure if the total number of dialects and 'other' languages spoken here is closer to 250, or 350. That said, most of the films are in English (with a liberal dash of pidgin english). There are a few films made in the three major languages as well though.

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