joaopferrao Pentaglot Newbie Portugal Joined 5789 days ago 25 posts - 27 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, English, Italian, Spanish, French Studies: Icelandic
| Message 89 of 142 14 January 2009 at 10:42pm | IP Logged |
The Lord's Prayer is a classic while studying languages. Once I read that it's the only text translated into every languages of the world (seems a bit exagerated).
Here goes the text in Gothic, a beautiful Germanic language. The þ reads like th in think and J reads like I.
Atta unsar þu in himinam weihnai namo þein
qimai þiudinassus þeins wairþai wilja þeins
swe in himina jah ana airþai.
hlaif unsarana þana sinteinan gif uns himma daga
jah aflet uns þatei skulans sijaima
swaswe jah weis afletam þaim skulam unsaraim
jah ni briggais uns in fraistubnjai
ak lausei uns af þamma ubilin
unte þeina ist þiudangardi jah mahts
jah wulþus in aiwins.
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Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6688 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map
| Message 90 of 142 19 January 2009 at 1:02pm | IP Logged |
^veganboy^ wrote:
Paire Nòstre qu'ei ath cèl,
qu'eth tièu nòm sia sanctificat;
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You didn't write which language this is. My guess would be Occitan, but maybe not not the regular dialect which I have seen before. Then I checked through Google and yes, it is Aranés, the Occitan dialect that is used in one single Spanish valley. Thanks for this rare glimpse of something really rare and valuable in the world of languages.
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Akbaboy Hexaglot Newbie United States Joined 5773 days ago 35 posts - 36 votes Speaks: English*, German, Portuguese, Cantonese, Catalan, French Studies: Mandarin, Spanish, Dutch
| Message 91 of 142 19 January 2009 at 1:21pm | IP Logged |
Es mein Deutsch gut? Ich finde es gut, denn ich bin sehr gut bei Deutsch.
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Sennin Senior Member Bulgaria Joined 6019 days ago 1457 posts - 1759 votes 5 sounds
| Message 92 of 142 19 January 2009 at 2:43pm | IP Logged |
Akbaboy wrote:
Es mein Deutsch gut? Ich finde es gut, denn ich bin sehr gut bei Deutsch. |
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Gosh, I understood that! And the only phrase I ever knew is "Ich will ficken" which is not even remotely related.
Edited by Sennin on 19 January 2009 at 2:53pm
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Jiwon Triglot Moderator Korea, South Joined 6421 days ago 1417 posts - 1500 votes Speaks: EnglishC2, Korean*, GermanC1 Studies: Hindi, Spanish Personal Language Map
| Message 93 of 142 19 January 2009 at 2:53pm | IP Logged |
Akbaboy wrote:
Es mein Deutsch gut? Ich finde es gut, denn ich bin sehr gut bei Deutsch. |
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Ist mein Deutsch gut, not Es mein Deutsch gut. In the second sentence, I see a critical error of verb misallocation.
Besides, how can anyone know about your German abilities if you only wrote two sentences? We need more than that to asses your German.
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Satoshi Diglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5808 days ago 215 posts - 224 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, English Studies: German, Japanese
| Message 94 of 142 19 January 2009 at 9:21pm | IP Logged |
Jiwon wrote:
Akbaboy wrote:
Es mein Deutsch gut? Ich finde es gut, denn ich bin sehr gut bei Deutsch. |
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Ist mein Deutsch gut, not Es mein Deutsch gut. In the second sentence, I see a critical error of verb misallocation.
Besides, how can anyone know about your German abilities if you only wrote two sentences? We need more than that to asses your German. |
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Devo dizer que não é muito fácil escrever textos longos e complexos do nada. Mas concordo que duas frases são completamente insuficientes para uma análise decente.
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Jiwon Triglot Moderator Korea, South Joined 6421 days ago 1417 posts - 1500 votes Speaks: EnglishC2, Korean*, GermanC1 Studies: Hindi, Spanish Personal Language Map
| Message 95 of 142 20 January 2009 at 4:55am | IP Logged |
@ Satoshi: You could have tried putting an English translation so that I could understand what you were saying. As you can see, I haven't studied Portuguese at all. But thanks to Google Translate, I understood what you wrote, and personally agree completely with your second sentence.
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lastlife Diglot Groupie United States Joined 6458 days ago 85 posts - 93 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Japanese
| Message 96 of 142 20 January 2009 at 2:07pm | IP Logged |
普通にネットで勉強のが嫌いんですけど、最 近iKnowというサイトにめちゃくちゃ気になり す。
偶然見つけたこのサイト、すぐに夢中になっ てしまいました。
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