Ari Heptaglot Senior Member Norway Joined 6581 days ago 2314 posts - 5695 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin, Cantonese Studies: Czech, Latin, German
| Message 1129 of 3737 30 September 2010 at 8:44am | IP Logged |
Teango wrote:
When you wander into websites like this and instantly smile (but for a completely different reason from your friends). :) |
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When you wander into websites like that and instantly frown, because the Mandarin is mislabeled as "Chinese" and the Swedish is misspelled.
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Levi Pentaglot Senior Member United States Joined 5566 days ago 2268 posts - 3328 votes Speaks: English*, French, Esperanto, German, Spanish Studies: Russian, Dutch, Portuguese, Mandarin, Japanese, Italian
| Message 1130 of 3737 30 September 2010 at 9:48am | IP Logged |
Ari wrote:
Teango wrote:
When you wander into websites like this and instantly smile (but for a completely different reason from your friends). :) |
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When you wander into websites like that and instantly frown, because the Mandarin is mislabeled as "Chinese" and the Swedish is misspelled. |
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And the Japanese translation uses 僕 (boku) without telling the reader that only males can use this pronoun.
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Teango Triglot Winner TAC 2010 & 2012 Senior Member United States teango.wordpress.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5555 days ago 2210 posts - 3734 votes Speaks: English*, German, Russian Studies: Hawaiian, French, Toki Pona
| Message 1131 of 3737 30 September 2010 at 1:24pm | IP Logged |
Levi wrote:
Ari wrote:
Teango wrote:
When you wander into websites like this and instantly smile (but for a completely different reason from your friends). :) |
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When you wander into websites like that and instantly frown, because the Mandarin is mislabeled as "Chinese" and the Swedish is misspelled. |
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And the Japanese translation uses 僕 (boku) without telling the reader that only males can use this pronoun. |
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Well pointed out, he obviously should have done his research first. I'm so glad now I haven't impetuously tried to tell anyone I'm a turtle this week. ;)
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janalisa Triglot Senior Member France janafadness.com/blog Joined 6889 days ago 284 posts - 466 votes Speaks: English*, French, Japanese Studies: Russian, Norwegian
| Message 1132 of 3737 30 September 2010 at 3:30pm | IP Logged |
Teango wrote:
Levi wrote:
[QUOTE=Ari][QUOTE=Teango]When you wander into websites like this and instantly smile (but for a completely different reason from your friends). :) |
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When you wander into websites like that and instantly frown, because the Mandarin is mislabeled as "Chinese" and the Swedish is misspelled. |
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The "Chinese" tones are also incorrect-- it should be "wo3 shi4 zhi1 wu1 gui1".
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pobere Triglot Groupie Germany language-learning-lo Joined 5355 days ago 83 posts - 114 votes Speaks: Romanian*, German, English
| Message 1133 of 3737 30 September 2010 at 4:55pm | IP Logged |
when I create my own tool for logging and learning motivation ...
and when I make it public available for free ... lol
Edited by pobere on 30 September 2010 at 9:37pm
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budonoseito Pro Member United States budobeyondtechnRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5804 days ago 261 posts - 344 votes Studies: French, Japanese Personal Language Map
| Message 1134 of 3737 30 September 2010 at 5:20pm | IP Logged |
pobere wrote:
when I create my own tool for logging and motivation
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and when I make it public available for free ... lol |
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Thanks, I will give it a try.
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Hanekawa Diglot Newbie United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5171 days ago 30 posts - 36 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Japanese, Korean
| Message 1135 of 3737 30 September 2010 at 9:13pm | IP Logged |
Teango wrote:
Levi wrote:
Ari wrote:
Teango wrote:
When you wander into websites like
this and instantly smile (but for a completely
different reason from your friends). :) |
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When you wander into websites like that and instantly frown, because the Mandarin is
mislabeled as "Chinese" and the Swedish is misspelled. |
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And the Japanese translation uses 僕 (boku) without telling the reader that only males
can use this pronoun. |
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Well pointed out, he obviously should have done his research first. I'm so glad now I
haven't impetuously tried to tell anyone I'm a turtle this week. ;) |
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Also, how all the other languages are written in normal English letters, but Japanese
he
went full out and actually used the correct alphabet.
weeaboo.
Edited by Hanekawa on 30 September 2010 at 9:15pm
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kottoler.ello Tetraglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6002 days ago 128 posts - 192 votes Speaks: English*, Russian, Mandarin, French Studies: Japanese, German
| Message 1136 of 3737 01 October 2010 at 7:28am | IP Logged |
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpmDAu_47OE
When your favorite thing about this video is that its in German.
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