casey28

I created a group on FiMFiction designed to link the English language stories that are found there to versions translated into other languages. The group, called Found in Translation, is meant as a resource for the larger, worldwide community, a reference library linking individual FiMFiction stories to the fanfiction archives scattered thither and yon on the Web, where translated versions of those stories have been stored. My intention is to make it easier for people to find translations in their native language, to show the global reach of fanfiction, to encourage networking and to satisfy everyone's values through friendship and ponies.

FiMFiction contains 124,897 stories that are rated Everyone and Teen. That's 2,009,968,811 words. If you were to read all it, non-stop, it would take you 797 weeks. Include the "Mature" stories and you're up to 160,889 stories. There is no easy way of finding stories published on FiMFiction that have been translated. Of the stories that have been translated, most do not say so in the story summary or teaser. Found in Translation changes that. It is a language-specific reference library with over 1,200 stories in the folders and with a forum where the links to the translations are given. Many of the stories are entire books, like Anthropology (translated into Spanish, Korean, Italian and Ukrainian), Fallout: Equestria (translated into Spanish, French and Italian) and Hard Reset (translated into Spanish, Russian and French). There are only 12 languages to choose from right now, but more languages will be added as they are found. So far the Spanish, Russian and Chinese folders contain over 300 stories each and the French folder has just under 200. This is a work in progress, more stories are added every day and lately I've been working on building up the Polish collection.

I figure that in order for a person to put in the time and effort to translate a story, it is probably a good story. Ergo, if you're looking for something to read, come on down to https://www.fimfiction.net/group/219287/found-in-translation and take a look. You could choose some translated fanfiction and polish your language comprehension skills, or you can always just come on by to find something to read in English.

The world is multi-lingual and so is the Pony fandom. Let's party!