Is it possible to create 2 seperate forums depending on language?

[DaVitsche]

short intro: I live in one of the most complicated countries in the world: Belgium.

One part speaks Dutch, the other speaks French. Sadly no part really speaks the other language enough to communicate in written language.
So in order to prevent a mixup of 2 languages I would prefer a language selection (dropdown menu - Dutch / French) where the user preference will take him to the designated forum.
So not a translation tool, but a tool to navigate them to a specific forum.

Is this doable with Vbulletin?

Hope I'm making sense :D

[WEBDosser]

to run two forums you would need two license.

[DaVitsche]

that's just a detail. First of all I need to know if it's even possible. iirc I even have 2 licenses where 1 is unused.

[setishock]

Couple of different things come to mind.
1> Add a button to the navbar in the dutch forum in french that when clicked takes you to the french forum. In the french forum a button to take you to the dutch forum. Provided you're going to run 2 seperate forums.
2> Assuming the base language in the main forum is dutch have a button in french that would jump to a category with french as the language. When you click on a category it takes you to another page. The url for that is what would need to be programmed in the button.

There's a mod here by elmer that puts buttons in the navbar that is simple to install and use.

[DaVitsche]

Couple of different things come to mind.
1> Add a button to the navbar in the dutch forum in french that when clicked takes you to the french forum. In the french forum a button to take you to the dutch forum. Provided you're going to run 2 seperate forums.
2> Assuming the base language in the main forum is dutch have a button in french that would jump to a category with french as the language. When you click on a category it takes you to another page. The url for that is what would need to be programmed in the button.

There's a mod here by elmer that puts buttons in the navbar that is simple to install and use.

Thanks. That's a great idea. Never tought about this myself.

But I just realized that if I make 2 seperate forums the bilingual people would need 2 accounts. Or can you link them? (is this the "creating a bridge" I often read about?)