I would love to make cards in other languages other than English or Welsh, it would be nice to have a help section for Belgian (Flemish) and Dutch, French, German, Sweedish, Danish. I have a lot of friends from all the countries but I never like to ask and then we all werido sence of humour's so I can imagine what some of them would translate for me, so checking haha would be needed.
 
I am dyslexic so if someone sent me a garbled birthday it would take me ages to see it, actually make hillarious cards for dyslexic's waiting for the penny to drop.
 
Even if it's:
Happy Birthday - Wishing you a wonderful Birthday.
Happy Anniversary - Congratulations to a wonderful couple.
 
Just standard little things.
 
 
Hugs
-Moonie-

I tend to design on a whim, I design what I like, which is rather off the wall admitedly, but I love to push myself and twist and turn to keep it interesting for me, I never think of sales, I guess I should really, but I tend to design from my inspiration in the morning then run with it. Sometimes it works a lot it does not and oddly I designed a card I hated with a passion loathed it there is no strong word for the dislike and I sold 500 perhaps I should design ones I hate
 
But it would be nice for Whisper's suggestion of basic languages and that would make easy checking, and you get a whole lot more people in Europe for example purchasing cards with the respective languages, it will take a while I am experiencing slow then fast on Welsh cards, but eventually word of mouth and back of card designs push you forward, so would love to expand on that part.  
 
I go without Welsh sales for months, then bam 20 a time go. So all is good and I would guess it would be equaly up and down for other languages. But we are being more diverse and giving your designs to a wider audience, that has to be good even if slower.

Perhaps it would be as easy as checking a box saying "this is a foreign language card and I KNOW the translation is correct",  if the box is unchecked the card would be held until someone looks it over.
 
One of the reasons we have a review process is that even native speakers can make grammatical or spelling error. If an English speaker can submit a card in English that has errors, errors they can see and correct, imagine how many can be in cards submitted by people that can't even read the language.
 
I love our great variety of cards and categories and I don't want to stifle anyone, but I am worried about the impression we give to the buyers.
 
-Whisper-

We understand the issue discussed here and it's really two fold:
 
1) There is a market and opportunity for foreign language (non English) cards.  Many artists want to participate and offer foreign language cards even if they are not familiar with the language.
 
You've got to do what you are good at especially when creating something for sale.  We are not saying don't branch out but you do need to master something and have some level of proficiency in order to execute it well.
 
Ideally for any product, artists should create what they are confident with and proficient in.  If the artist is not confident in the language then they should not create cards for that language.  Or they should keep it very simple and use only brief and somewhat universal words and phrases (Merci, Adios, Ti Amo, etc).  
 
2) Cards on GCU should be error free, and translation errors in foreign language cards display a poor quality product that reflects poorly on all cards and artists.
 
We agree and although we scrutinize cards in English as best we can, we do not do the same for non-English cards.  English cards are by far the bulk of our sales and our sales opportunities.  Resources and certainly language skill level do not allow GCU to review and verify foreign language (non English) cards.  Ultimately the vision is for GCU to be community managed where tasks like card reviews and category "policing" would be done by the artist community itself.  That would allow having qualified language "experts" in review roles however this is a very long time away.  
 
GCU does not plan to provide foreign language translation services, verification, nor tips & suggestions.  Content creation is up to the artists - that is your skill, your value add, your expertise which will earn you returns.  Just as we would not offer how to's or tips on other topics like photography, Photoshop, calligraphy, etc.... being a resource for languages is not something we plan on providing.
 
As discussed before all foreign language cards should include an English translation in the Artist's Notes field so shoppers know what the card says.  This is optional but could be the difference in getting the sale or not:    http://www.greetingcarduniverse.com/forum/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1231881735
 
I'm sorry to say but this is not on our wish list

Quote from Jeff_135713 on Jul 14^th, 2009, 2:20pm:

 
Although I think most artists welcome and appreciate feedback re: an error, for those of you that want to stay anonymous you can send a message through the storefront Testimonials as long as you are NOT logged in.  This will send the testimonial as a Guest.
 
Otherwise you canus the Contact Us link in GCU's footer and we will contact the artist:
http://www.greetingcarduniverse.com/about/contactus.asp

I think if you word it correctly then most artists will take it as you are trying to help them, not that you are criticising their work. Just last night I noticed an error on a card of one of our most popular sellers at GCU and brought it to his attention. He fixed the error and thanked me for it...no problem at all.  
 
If we don't tell someone something is wrong then it will never get fixed and they will never be aware of it.  
 
Cheryl