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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.

Where this is right now

Carried Stories runs by hand and over email. Send a story in a language you know and it gets published here. If you read a story and want to translate it, send in your translation and it's credited by you.

If you think a translation could be better, email a revision and say why you would change it. The reasoning gets published alongside. Stories keep improving the way a wiki does, so nothing here is ever finished.

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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 Submit a story, folktale, poem, or something else in a language you speak.  Send a story
Help with an existing story Translate a story into another language, or help improve the translation of an existing story. It's best to provide reasoning why it should be revised. Revise or translate an existing story

How it works

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Specify what you speak and what you want to read. Carried Stories 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 Carried Stories directly to be added by hand.
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Thank you.

Carried Stories 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 happens next
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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.