ViejoAmargo -> RE: Flamenco website in English? (Mar. 28 2020 0:21:04)
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ORIGINAL: BarkellWH Are you suggesting the establishment of a new, bilingual, Spanish-English flamenco website? Or are you suggesting nudging the current Foroflamenco website, administered by Simon, into a more bilingual forum? I would not support the former, as it suggests abandoning the Foro, which has provided a wealth of information and entertainment. In fact, there have been some Spanish language articles reproduced on the Foro, and nothing prevents the use of Spanish among those of us who are proficient. Let me suggest an alternative for consideration. Although I think the Foro is just fine as it is, how about considering within the Foro a discussion group devoted entirely to things flamenco in Spanish? This discussion group would take its place alongside others already in existence such as "General," "Lutherie," "Off-Topic," etc. The potential problem I see with that is the likelihood of a lot of duplication among the English and Spanish flamenco discussion groups. I'm not keen on a separate flamenco discussion group in Spanish, but let's see if there is any interest in it. I would not support the establishment a separate Spanish language flamenco website, however. Let's remain loyal to the Foro. Bill No no no... You got ahead of me... I wasn't suggesting any changes to THIS forum... Now, full disclosure: I'm involved with the webiste I linked above (www.expoflamenco.com, www.expoflamenco.com/en is the version of that same website in English). That website has been around for over 4 years, and we aimed to appeal to a global audience (thus the decision to have it bilingual in Spanish and English). Yet, just about 10% - 15% of our traffic is for the content in English, and this has remained basically constant for 4 years... I've come to think about "why", and I believe the 2 points I mentioned in the OP are relevant, namely: 1. Most flamenco aficionados have a working knowledge of Spanish, thus they feel no interest on a website with news / articles in English (that website has no discussion area, so it doesn't compete in any way with foroflamenco.com, it's a different concept) 2. The flamenco interest in countries other than Spain is mostly in flamenco guitar and flamenco dance. In Spain, most flamenco aficionados care mostly about cante. Since the content of that website's (www.expoflamenco.com) is written in Spain, it reflects this "bias" towards cante, which in turn can put off English-speaking flamenco aficionados, I think I just wanted to hear unbiased opinions from English-speaking flamenco aficionados about this. I didn't want to say upfront I was involved with that website because I didn't want people to "hold back" their opinions (if someone thought the concept was silly, or the website was terrible, I wanted to hear it plain) but since apparently it was misconstrued that I was suggesting changes to THIS website, I rather say it clearly...
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