Which SE site should I address for inter-language translation questions?

Question

Is seems very common task nowadays to translate some texts (technical, fiction, and others) from English to other languages and vice versa. I looked at the list of current SE sites including Area 51, and I don't know which site to choose without a risk of being blamed in off-topic.

For example, the English language and usage site says it is not for "Translation and non-English languages" (FAQ). So it looks like I should create new proposal on Area 51, but looking at this site I see many suggested sites for specific languages, including, for example, German Language & Usage, which is intended for translation queries as well. I think all language sites should have the same policy, so, which one is correct? Either German (and other language) sites should not address requests for translations, or the English site should be extended to accept such requests.

Also I'm not sure which question can be considered as a translation request. For example, I have a very hard to understand English sentence. Is it normal to ask to explain it in English (English-to-English translation) on the "English language and usage"?

I thought about creating a proposal of a dedicated translation site on Area 51, something like Cucumis (which sucks and really needs to be transformed into something like an SE site). But the problem is that Area 51 does already contain a lot of proposals related to translation itself. For example, there is the Translation Tools site. I think it's not a good idea to have numerous sites for very similar matter. So it could be possibly more appropriate to extend the "Translation Tools" into more wide "Translation" topic, but I'm not sure if this is possible at all (technically and procedurally).

Answer 1

No one speaks all the languages. So what language would this site be in?

Would it still be in English even though it supports French-to-German translation? Would a French speaker necessarily look there? Of course, not, they don't speak English and while with many domains it's arguably (and in the stance of SE) reasonable to expect English to be used, I don't think a similar claim can extend to non-English-to-non-English sites.

So if you're interested in translating French to German, that would go on the appropriate language.se. If neither French or German SE's are interested in a translation question, it means they have rejected it because it doesn't work with their community. And, why is this banned on english.SE? They probably had good reasons that it would behoove you to understand before Area 51-ing it, so take that to their meta.

Are you trying to solve all n^2 combinations of languages to translate? At that point you're back to talking about translation tools, which your research did uncover exists.

In short this seems reasonably well-factored at present. I would see potential for an X-to-English or vice versa SE, but you need to understand why English.SE has been closed to that. If, for instance, it was for the volume of such requests overwhelming the rest of the site, then that would be an indication it could perhaps be supported independently.