I too am somebody who does their journal in English only. Actually, for a long time I used to hide my nationality/real mother tongue because I guess part of me was afraid that my opinions woudn't be taken seriously if people found out that I wasn't watching the episodes in real time with them. That my voice didn't count because I could never contribute to American viewership.
It was actually a huge eyeopener when I realized that a lot of famous authors or metawriters were actually "secret Germans/German-speakers". (I'm Austrian btw) Ok maybe not secret, but so that you didn't know immediately because everbody seems almost flawlessly good in English when they write (at least from my own ESL reader perspective).
I have to say I have never looked for German fandom unless the source material was German and I knew it was unlikely that it would have spread out into English fandom (Verbotene Liebe, Karl May).
I'd like to say that I prefer seeking out the fandom/fanfic in whatever language is the original one but then again, my Hindi movies fandom is mostly English (though I do have a German board there as well) and I assume the same would be if I ever sought out a Japanese/Chinese/Korean fandom.
I have had some interesting discussions with non-German speakers about their insecurities in writing for VL when they don't "hear" the original dialog and only work from the translations. It was actually quite fascinating (though probably because I was never really into any of the Anime or Dorama fandoms, so those kind of problems were actually quite new to me).
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Date: 2009-05-04 10:35 am (UTC)It was actually a huge eyeopener when I realized that a lot of famous authors or metawriters were actually "secret Germans/German-speakers". (I'm Austrian btw) Ok maybe not secret, but so that you didn't know immediately because everbody seems almost flawlessly good in English when they write (at least from my own ESL reader perspective).
I have to say I have never looked for German fandom unless the source material was German and I knew it was unlikely that it would have spread out into English fandom (Verbotene Liebe, Karl May).
I'd like to say that I prefer seeking out the fandom/fanfic in whatever language is the original one but then again, my Hindi movies fandom is mostly English (though I do have a German board there as well) and I assume the same would be if I ever sought out a Japanese/Chinese/Korean fandom.
I have had some interesting discussions with non-German speakers about their insecurities in writing for VL when they don't "hear" the original dialog and only work from the translations. It was actually quite fascinating (though probably because I was never really into any of the Anime or Dorama fandoms, so those kind of problems were actually quite new to me).