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Is this Macedonian, Bulgarian or what?

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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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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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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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Macedonian? Library, pencils, boxes?
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Great espejismo! That was it =) Thank you guys!
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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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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.

And if this is part of a challenge your friend is taking part in, isn't this cheating?


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

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