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Read a unique story translated from a different language

To translate is to carry something across. Students bring in the folk tales, poems, and family stories they grew up with, and other students carry them into their own languages, one line at a time.

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Where this is right now

Carried Stories is new and it is small. Right now it runs by hand: you send a story, we find someone who reads that language, and the translation gets worked out between you over email or a shared document. Everything finished gets published here, credited to whoever the story came from.

There are no accounts yet, and no messaging. Both are coming — the list you join below is how we work out which languages to pair first.

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The first translations are being worked on now. Every finished one gets published here with both languages side by side.
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Your story could be next Send us something in a language you speak. It does not need to be written down anywhere yet. Send a story

How it works

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Tell us what you speak and what you want to read. We will write to you when there is a story that needs you, or a person who needs your language.

I am in…
Where I'm from
A country, region, or a people.
Languages I speak
Anything you speak at home, at school, or with family. You do not need to have studied it.
Languages I want to read
Leave it open if you do not mind — most people find something they were not looking for.
A story you would bring — optional
A folk tale, a poem, something a relative tells.
Your email is used for this and nothing else.
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Nothing was saved. Try once more, or write to us directly and we will add you by hand.
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Thank you.

We will write to you when there is a story in one of your languages, or someone who needs the one you speak. If you mentioned a story, expect a reply about it.
What we do with this
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You need to be 13 or older to join. We are not set up to handle a younger student's data safely, and we would rather say so than pretend otherwise.
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Bridging the language gap between stories

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Carried Stories — a translation commons for students Every story stays credited to the person it came from.