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| Mikael84 Bilingual Pentaglot Groupie Peru Joined 5298 days ago 76 posts - 116 votes  Speaks: French*, Finnish*, English, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Arabic (classical), German, Russian | Message 49 of 110 01 November 2010 at 9:29pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
A couple more corrections, let's see if you agree with me tornus.. Good job Sprachprofi! And thanks for the German correction... I'll be careful with "geil" from now on, didn't know the original meaning! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| tornus Diglot GroupieRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5141 days ago 82 posts - 113 votes Speaks: French*, English Studies: Spanish, Swedish, Danish | Message 50 of 110 02 November 2010 at 9:01am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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ok i've forgot "ensoleillé";"un";" étais" and "silencieuse" but i don't agree with the other mistakes, it's just another way to say the same thing
and i agree to create a "practice board" on the forum 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6468 days ago 2608 posts - 4866 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Esperanto, Greek, Mandarin, Latin, Dutch, Italian Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swahili, Indonesian, Japanese, Modern Hebrew, Portuguese | Message 51 of 110 02 November 2010 at 9:39am | IP Logged | ||||||||
Thank you for the corrections!
I think the Multilingual Lounge is fine for this. I even posted another translation exercise there a while ago: http://how-to-learn-any-language.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?T ID=19633&PN=2 Edited by Sprachprofi on 02 November 2010 at 9:39am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Sierra Diglot Senior Member Turkey livinginlights.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 7122 days ago 296 posts - 411 votes Speaks: English*, SwedishB1 Studies: Turkish | Message 52 of 110 06 November 2010 at 5:14pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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I think it does, as you say, fit in the Multilingual Lounge. Still, though, I would
support creating a new forum solely for translations to be corrected, since I think we could easily come up with a whole subforum worth of content and it would be nice to keep it from pushing the current threads to other pages. We could have a daily translation challenge! 4 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
| ellasevia Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2011 Senior Member Germany Joined 6140 days ago 2150 posts - 3229 votes Speaks: English*, German, Croatian, Greek, French, Spanish, Russian, Swedish, Portuguese, Turkish, Italian Studies: Catalan, Persian, Mandarin, Japanese, Romanian, Ukrainian | Message 53 of 110 10 November 2010 at 1:35am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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I'll try the beginner's text for Persian, Romanian, and Russian, but I think I'll have to look up a couple words... Corrections are very welcome, of course!
Hi Lisa, Here is a postcard of my town. It is not very big, but it is nice. Please tell me more about your town. How many people live in it? What is particularly nice about your town? Where do you go in the evenings? John PERSIAN سلام ليسا، اينم کارت پستال شهرم. خيلى بزرگ نيست، اما قشنگه. دربارهى شهرت بیشتر بهم بگى لطفاً. چقدر مردم آنجا زندگى مى کنند؟ دربارهى شهرت چه مخصوصاً خوبه؟ در شب کجا مى رى؟ جون ROMANIAN Bună Lisa, Aici o carte poştală de oraşul meu. Nu-i foarte mare, dar e frumos. Spune-mi mai mult despre oraşul tău, te rog. Câţi oameni locuiesc acolo? Ce e în special drăguţ în oraşul tău? Unde mergi seara? John RUSSIAN Привет Лиса, Вот открытка моего города. Не очень большой, но приятный. Скажи мне пожалуйста больше о твоём городе. Сколько людей живут там? Что особенно приятный о твоём городе? Куда ты вечером ходишь? Джон Oh dear, I'm afraid that these are simply brimming with errors. These are my three weakest languages at the moment, so I'm not surprised... I'm so sorry for mangling these wonderful languages, and thank you in advance again for correcting my attempts. Edited by ellasevia on 10 November 2010 at 1:49am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Ubik Senior Member United States ubykh.wordpress.com/ Joined 5314 days ago 147 posts - 176 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Latin, Arabic (Egyptian), German, Spanish | Message 54 of 110 17 November 2010 at 1:32am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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OK, Im going to butcher these in both German and Latin, but here goes.
German (beginner) Hi Lisa, here is a postcard of my town. It is not very big, but it is nice. Please tell me more about your town. How many people live in it? What is particularly nice about your town? Where do you go in the evenings? John Grüss dich Lisa, Hier ist eine Postkarte von meine Stadt. Sie ist nicht zu gross, aber sie ist gemütlich. Bitte, sag mir mal darüber deine Stadt. Wieviele Leute wohnen dort? Was ist besonders lieb darüber deine Stadt? Wo gehst du am Abends? Intermediate: (answer to having won a tour through the USA) Thank you very much. I am so glad I won the prize. I would like to travel to the USA in July because of my job. Will I be able to see my cousin Ann in Dallas? I know the tour only goes through Houston... Also I would really like to go swimming in the ocean. I hope there will be time for that. Yours sincerely, Vielen dank! Es freut mich sehr dass habe ich die Preis gewinnen. Ich werde zu USA reisen im Juli weil mein Arbeit. Werde ich meine Cousine Ann in Dallas sehen können? Ich kenne dass die Tour (?) geht nur durch Houston... Auch, werde ich in dem Ozean schwimmengehen magen. Ich hoffe, dass es gibt genug Zeit für das. Wohlwollendest wünsche, In Latinä Salve Lisa, hic est litterapictura (???) meius urbis. Est non maxime, sed est gratus. Gratiäs ägo, dice me plus de tuä urbe. quot civitätes vivet ibi? **must finish later....late for Latin class LOL*** (the Latin took me way longer than I thought it would -- I hardly ever translate into Latin from English!) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Warp3 Senior Member United States forum_posts.asp?TID= Joined 5533 days ago 1419 posts - 1766 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Korean, Japanese | Message 55 of 110 17 November 2010 at 7:12pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Here is my attempt at Korean (with fewer dictionary lookups than I feared I'd need).
Since Korean has speech levels, honorifics, etc. I opted for different styles for the two texts. I wrote the Beginner text using the informal polite level with very little honorific use. I wrote the Intermediate text using the formal polite speech level with humble/honorific forms used where needed. Corrections are VERY welcome, especially if they include an explanation. Beginner: 리사씨 안녕하세요, 이것은 내 읍의 엽서예요. 내 읍은 별로 안 크지만 좋아요. 네 읍은 더 말해주세요. 읍에서 몇 명 계세요? 읍은 뭐 특별히 좋아요? 저녁때에 어디에 가세요? 존 드림 Intermediate: 정말 감사합니다. 상을 이기서 너무 기쁘합니다. 제 직업 때문에 7월에 미국에 여행을 가면 좋겠습니다. 달라스에 있는 앤 사촌 봐도 됩니까? 휴스턴만까지 순회할 것을 아는데. 바다에서 수영하는 것도 좋겠습니다. 그것은 시간이 있기를 바랍니다. 미셸 두비스 올림 (NOTE: The conversion of the names was based on Google Translate since it usually does a fair job with items like that. Personally, I would have opted for something like 두봐 for "Dubois" but I just took what it listed.) EDIT: Various self-corrections, including a verb I forgot to conjugate. Edited by Warp3 on 17 November 2010 at 9:30pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| michau Tetraglot Groupie Norway lang-8.com/member/49 Joined 6224 days ago 86 posts - 135 votes Speaks: Polish*, English, NorwegianC1, Mandarin Studies: Spanish, Sign Language Studies: Burmese, Toki Pona, Greenlandic | Message 56 of 110 17 November 2010 at 9:03pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
Here is my try with Norwegian.
Bokmål: Hei Lisa, her er et postkort fra byen min. Den er ikke for stor, men er hyggelig. Fortell meg mer om byen din. Hvor mange folk bor det der? Hva som er særlig hyggelig i din by? Hvor går du ut om kvelden? John Nynorsk: Hei Lisa, her er eit postkort frå byen min. Han er ikkje for stor, men er hygjeleg. Fortel meg meir om byen din. Kor mange folk bur det der? Kva som er særleg hyggjeleg i din by? Kor går du ut om kvelden? John
Bokmål: Takk skal du ha. Jeg er så glad for at jeg vant denne prisen. Jeg vil gjerne dra til USA i juli på grunn av jobben min. Kommer jeg til å se kusina mi Ann i Dallas? Jeg vet at turen bare går gjennom Houston... Også vil jeg virkelig gjerne gå å svømme i havet. Jeg håper det kommer til å være tid til det. Med vennlig hilsen, Michelle Dubois Nynorsk: Takk skal du ha. Eg er så glad for at eg vann denne prisen. Eg vil gjerne dra til USA i juli på grunn av jobben min. Kjem eg til å sjå kusina mi Ann i Dallas? Eg veit at turen berre går gjennom Houston... Også vil eg virkeleg gjerne gå å symje i havet. Eg vonar det kjem til å vere tid til det. Vennleg helsing, Michelle Dubois
This time only Bokmål :) Jeg neppe kjente faren min. Da han døde i 75 års alderen, var jeg ikke enda 10 år gammel. Denne dagen kan jeg huske veldig godt. Det var en solrik dag i september, og det var en merkelig atmosfære i huset. Jeg kan se meg selv sittende på stolen i det store rommet; en vesp fløy rundt men huset var helt stille ellers. En av eldre brorene mine hadde sagt: "Faren dør, men du bør bli her". Alle var med ham, bare jeg var "for liten" igjen og derfor ekskludert. Jeg vet ikke hva som gjorde meg mer trist, denne tilstand eller min fars død, som hadde viktighet jeg naturligvis ikke kunne forstå i det hele tatt. Jeg husker en situasjon som påvirket meg mest: jeg ser mot rommet hans fra gangen og ser ham sittende ved skrivebordet i lampeskinn. Det var som å se lys i enden av tunnelen. Same as above, corrections are very welcome. Edited by michau on 17 November 2010 at 9:04pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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