Even though I am German I was spending the first 1 1/2 years as furry solely on American community sites. Usually, people didn't realize, that I'm not native English speaker until I told them and most were telling me that my English is really good.
Recently, I attended the Eurofurence 16, which was the first time for me that I got in contact with a big part of the German fandom which I have been neglecting for such a long time.

You might ask myself why I am telling this?
I realized, that the German and English fandom do not cooperate as much as they could, which means that on both sides people are missing out on interesting things.
Most Germans understand English without problems and the majority of them can also speak (write) good or decent English. Unfortunately, the other way round it is different. Since English is becoming more and more a lingua franca, English speakers are quite pampered with their language and don't bother with learning other languages.

Due to my lack of artistic skill and small finances, that don't allow me to get a fursuit and attend as much cons as I would want to I've felt pretty useless in the fandom, but I think I found my purpose in this community now.

I offer everyone to mediate their texts, may they be English or German, into the corresponding language. So people with a lack of knowledge about eitherone of said languages does not have to miss out on information.

I therewith encourage artists to write their picture descriptions in both languages. Furthermore, if you have an English Wikifur.com article which doesn't exist on the German Wikifur yet, or is incomplete, I offer myself to translate it and put it up on the page.