fabriciocarraro Hexaglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member Brazil russoparabrasileirosRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4706 days ago 989 posts - 1454 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, EnglishB2, Italian, Spanish, Russian, French Studies: Dutch, German, Japanese
| Message 1 of 7 16 June 2012 at 9:58pm | IP Logged |
Hey guys!
A friend of mine is taking part on a challenge and he has to discover what's being said in other languages. He has this audio now. Could any of you guys help with the translation?
Thanks!
Edited by fabriciocarraro on 17 June 2012 at 12:41am
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vientito Senior Member Canada Joined 6329 days ago 212 posts - 281 votes
| Message 2 of 7 16 June 2012 at 10:45pm | IP Logged |
it's probably a variant of cantonese, though not the one used in hongkong.
"ant, mouse, ear(?)" the last one I am not 100% sure but it does sound like that
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fabriciocarraro Hexaglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member Brazil russoparabrasileirosRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4706 days ago 989 posts - 1454 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, EnglishB2, Italian, Spanish, Russian, French Studies: Dutch, German, Japanese
| Message 3 of 7 17 June 2012 at 12:39am | IP Logged |
Thank you vientito! The last one was rabbit, we went through =)
Now there's a new one with a slavic language... can't figure out which.
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/23754567/dna2012_i_m_djdf.mp3
I think the 2nd one is "pencil" or "pencils" and the last one "box" or "boxes", but the 1st one is impossible...
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espejismo Diglot Senior Member Russian Federation Joined 5042 days ago 498 posts - 905 votes Speaks: Russian*, English Studies: Spanish, Greek, Azerbaijani
| Message 4 of 7 17 June 2012 at 12:45am | IP Logged |
Macedonian? Library, pencils, boxes?
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fabriciocarraro Hexaglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member Brazil russoparabrasileirosRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4706 days ago 989 posts - 1454 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, EnglishB2, Italian, Spanish, Russian, French Studies: Dutch, German, Japanese
| Message 5 of 7 17 June 2012 at 12:47am | IP Logged |
Great espejismo! That was it =) Thank you guys!
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stelingo Hexaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5823 days ago 722 posts - 1076 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Italian Studies: Russian, Czech, Polish, Greek, Mandarin
| Message 6 of 7 17 June 2012 at 1:54am | IP Logged |
The second recording is Modern Greek, βιβλίο book, μολύβι pencil, κουτί box.
In Macedonian, according to google translate they are книга, молив and кутија. So the last 2 are very similar to the Greek and unlike the words in the Slavic languages I know, which I find interesting.
And if this is part of a challenge your friend is taking part in, isn't this cheating?
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fabriciocarraro Hexaglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member Brazil russoparabrasileirosRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4706 days ago 989 posts - 1454 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, EnglishB2, Italian, Spanish, Russian, French Studies: Dutch, German, Japanese
| Message 7 of 7 17 June 2012 at 5:51am | IP Logged |
stelingo wrote:
The second recording is Modern Greek, βιβλίο book, μολύβι pencil, κουτί box.
In Macedonian, according to google translate they are книга, молив and кутија. So the last 2 are very similar to the Greek and unlike the words in the Slavic languages I know, which I find interesting.
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Wow, I didn't know it was Greek, stelingo! The words were very similar in Macedonian, and even in Bulgarian or Ukrainian, so that's why I thought it was a slavic language. Very interesting indeed!
I don't think asking your friends is cheating because you're allowed to use Google, Wikipedia and stuff like that, but if so, that's his problem and not mine =P
Edited by fabriciocarraro on 17 June 2012 at 5:52am
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