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| Expugnator Hexaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5172 days ago 3335 posts - 4349 votes  Speaks: Portuguese*, Norwegian, French, English, Italian, Papiamento Studies: Mandarin, Georgian, Russian | Message 329 of 431 17 April 2012 at 12:17am | IP Logged | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Ok, challenge accepted! Let's see if I can do it tomorrow. zecchino is missing, maybe she would want to take part too.
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| liddytime Pentaglot Senior Member United States mainlymagyar.wordpre Joined 6235 days ago 693 posts - 1328 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Galician Studies: Hungarian, Vietnamese, Modern Hebrew, Norwegian, Persian, Arabic (Written) | Message 330 of 431 17 April 2012 at 2:36am | IP Logged | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Thanks guys!
I'll track down Beginner's Georgian! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| zecchino1991 Senior Member United States facebook.com/amyybur Joined 5264 days ago 778 posts - 885 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Italian, Modern Hebrew, Russian, Arabic (Written), Romanian, Icelandic, Georgian | Message 331 of 431 17 April 2012 at 3:12am | IP Logged | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hey! I'm here. :P The challenge is translating the text, right? If so I'm in! ;)
Nice to meet another Georgian learner! Beginner's Georgian is a very good book! By the way, I like the thing you said on TixhiiDon's log about Georgian learners being a secret club. That makes it even more fun...;) Edited by zecchino1991 on 17 April 2012 at 3:14am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| TixhiiDon Tetraglot Senior Member Japan Joined 5470 days ago 772 posts - 1474 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese, German, Russian Studies: Georgian | Message 332 of 431 17 April 2012 at 3:26am | IP Logged | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Looking forward to seeing your translations guys! If anything seems weird in the text,
you can be certain that it's due to my bad Georgian rather than your lack of knowledge :) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| zecchino1991 Senior Member United States facebook.com/amyybur Joined 5264 days ago 778 posts - 885 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Italian, Modern Hebrew, Russian, Arabic (Written), Romanian, Icelandic, Georgian | Message 333 of 431 17 April 2012 at 4:15am | IP Logged | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Ok I will do it paragraph by paragraph so it will be easier to follow... Whatever I
write in parenthesis is just comments and/or paraphrasing. I am not going to use a dictionary! (edit: ok I lied, I used one once because I didn't want to say that your dog died if it didn't! But turns out I was right. :(
As you read in the last post (something like that!), I am writing a few paragraphs(?) in Georgian. During the last two weeks I have been very busy because my mother and sister were visiting me in Tokyo. (I must say/ point out??...just a guess!) they don't speak Japanese and they can't really do anything, so they... (I guess it basically means they need someone to do everything with them?). We had a good time(?) together and it was very nice seeing my family, but, to tell the truth, I am happy to return to my normal life (something like that haha...)
(This one is harder! I don't really understand the first part but I think you are saying that your life changed completely...your normal routine was destroyed, something like that. Then you said your family got it's newest member three days ago). This blog's regulars probably(?) remember that my dog unfortunately died in February of last year. Then I thought often about whether I want a new dog. Living with a dog is very nice and funny (or fun? That makes more sense), but a dog is a big responsibility(?) and free time(?) is hard for a dog owner (doesn't make much sense in English but I hope you know what I meant!)
(Again I have to paraphrase a lot...I think you said you made a decision when your friend offered(?) you her dog's puppy. Then your new puppy moved in to your house last Thursday.) Her name is Juno, she has a (some color) (something...fur? I don't know), and her breed(?) is Saluki, like my last dog. I got a two week vacation from (something) so I could start her (something...like training, or getting her used to living with you...just guessing though ;P) At the moment she is laying (or sitting?) next to me and (basically that's the only reason you can write the post), but (when you're done you will be busy again).
(Something about "with a face"?...) you can say that this April is an eventful (totally guessed on that one...haha) and wonderful month for me.
Haha! How exactly did that happen... was it the tavisi/misi thing? Just curious! Wow... that was hard! But after all, it was National Mother Language day in Georgia on Saturday (a day to celebrate Georgian). So this is my belated Georgian Day present to you all. :) Edited by zecchino1991 on 17 April 2012 at 4:20am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| TixhiiDon Tetraglot Senior Member Japan Joined 5470 days ago 772 posts - 1474 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese, German, Russian Studies: Georgian | Message 334 of 431 17 April 2012 at 8:19am | IP Logged | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Wow, you basically got it. Pretty amazing considering you didn't use a dictionary. I'm impressed.
The puppy thing would actually have sounded equally ridiculous in English. I initially wrote "My friend offered me one of her puppies". I guess you could maybe get away with that in English,but when I read it back it looked really funny in Georgian. As for the fun/funny thing, I'm not sure whether Georgian has a single adjective that corresponds directly to "fun", so yeah, I used "funny". Maybe it's OK, maybe it sounds a bit silly. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Murdoc Triglot Senior Member Georgia Joined 5260 days ago 113 posts - 208 votes Speaks: Georgian*, English, Russian | Message 335 of 431 18 April 2012 at 4:51pm | IP Logged | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
პოსტში (although we say ფოსტა, "internet post" has been transcribed as პოსტი)
დავწერ რამდენიმე წინადადებას.
დედაჩემი და მისი და იყვნენ ჩემთან ტოკიოში სტუმრად.
იაპონურად
მარტო ვერაფერს ვერ აკეთებდნენ.
ამის მიზეზი არის ჩემი ოჯახის ყველაზე ახალი წევრის ჩამოსვლა სამი დღის წინ.
შარშან თებერვალში
ნამდვილად მინდა ახალი ძაღლი თუ არა.
fun (adj.) - გასართობი
შემომთავაზა
გასული კვირის
not wrong, but "შვებულება ავიღე" go together usually.
მაგრამ როგორც კი გაიღვიძებს, კვლავ დაკავებული ვიქნები. and typos I guess:
სამწუხაროდ
შედეგად Well done! it's a huge text. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| geoffw Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 4694 days ago 1134 posts - 1865 votes Speaks: English*, German, Yiddish Studies: Modern Hebrew, French, Dutch, Italian, Russian | Message 336 of 431 18 April 2012 at 5:14pm | IP Logged | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
I know exactly what you mean, there. That was part of my inspiration for when I was trying to learn Irish, and also for learning Yiddish. A combination of wanting to help save a declining language and yet also have something that only other members of the club have, and no one would ever expect you to have. Ironically, in some ways Irish and Yiddish are even more obscure than Georgian nowadays, though in both cases, 100-200 years ago it may have been the opposite (especially with Yiddish). 1 person has voted this message useful |
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