New forums for ethnic communities in Louisville

(Sorry if this seems like an ad, but I'm just wanting to make my fellow Louisvillians aware about a key change to my discussion board -- Robin: Please delete if it's not within bounds)

Within a generation, Louisville has seen two ethnic communities in town grow dramatically -- Hispanics and Vietnamese people.

Do all these fine residents of Louisville have a good place online to converse, whether in English or Spanish or Vietnamese? I don't really know... But, in case they don't, I just created forums for these dynamic Louisville communities at Louisville History & Issues.

Please encourage your Louisville Latino and Vietnamese friends to check out the discussion board.

Cheers,
Steve


P.S. I embrace diversity and even if my approach on this doesn't strike the right key (yet), I am committed to serving all of Louisville's residents and will do everything I can to get it right.

i have to ask: i'm assuming you found some sort of Vietnamese translation applet online?

When i first started working at Asiatique i was literally the 'token white guy', all the other guys working the line were Vietnamese at the time.

I went as far to buy two books on speaking Vietnamese, figuring i couldn't be in better environment to learn.

Still have the books, but never really learned. (apparently one of the books came with a companion cd that's almost required to properly understand pronunciation, since Vietnamese is largely a tonal based language... line did not come with said cd. )





Louisville does indeed have a quite large Vietnamese community;
but it's also of note - Louisville does also have a quite large concentration of Bosnian immigrants as well.

Ethan, I used the translation tool at vdict.com (note: requires Java runtime on your PC). I was very happy to discover it, as I don't know Vietnamese either. Hopefully, one day, I will find somebody fluent in both English and Vietnamese to moderate the newly created forum.

Re: Bosnian community, hmmm, yeah, that's right. I'll look into the possibility of creating a forum for them too. Thanks for the tip!