clumsy Octoglot Senior Member Poland lang-8.com/6715Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5192 days ago 1116 posts - 1367 votes Speaks: Polish*, English, Japanese, Korean, French, Mandarin, Italian, Vietnamese Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swedish Studies: Danish, Dari, Kirundi
| Message 33 of 50 28 May 2012 at 1:28pm | IP Logged |
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By the way, it's worth mentioning that "壮语" has now become a spoken language since
1950 something. Now, very very few people in China would be able to write the text of
"壮语". My ex girl friend speaks 壮语 as her mother tongue but she doesn't even know a
word of 壮语
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so it means most people are illiterate? :(
or that they simply use non-standart Zhuang?
Anyway I have noticed how scarce is Zhuang on the Internet.
There is wikipedia version, but without many contributions.
talking about the dialects : Dai people of China use as many as 3 different writing systems for their languages: Tai Dam, Tai Nua and Tai Lue.
There are many groups of people that most people have not heard about in China and South East Asia.
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prz_ Tetraglot Senior Member Poland last.fm/user/prz_rul Joined 4873 days ago 890 posts - 1190 votes Speaks: Polish*, English, Bulgarian, Croatian Studies: Slovenian, Macedonian, Persian, Russian, Turkish, Ukrainian, Dutch, Swedish, German, Italian, Armenian, Kurdish
| Message 34 of 50 28 May 2012 at 10:35pm | IP Logged |
clumsy wrote:
once you get past the basic characters the rest is easier. |
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Let's hope so, I'm impatienly waiting to break this magic line. But I think it can take some time, especially that it's not the language I spent the most time for.
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wenevy Bilingual Pentaglot Newbie China Joined 5091 days ago 28 posts - 36 votes Speaks: Spanish, Mandarin*, Cantonese*, Catalan, EnglishC1 Studies: French, Italian
| Message 35 of 50 20 August 2012 at 11:11am | IP Logged |
Personally, I think a section for Chinese, Japanese and also Korean together will
be great and necessary.
Edited by wenevy on 20 August 2012 at 11:11am
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JoaoCorreia Triglot Newbie Portugal Joined 4774 days ago 26 posts - 32 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, English, FrenchC2
| Message 36 of 50 10 September 2012 at 7:49pm | IP Logged |
Greetings,
I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask for help, and I am also aware my cry for
help can be seen with some despise, but I am desperate and am willing to give it a go.
What I am looking for is someone to translate me a rather short text into Mandarin. I
know this isn't a forum policy nor very welcoming among language learners, and I feel I
should at least explain the situation.
I had to fly home after discovering my mother was at the hospital with a very serious
disease, therefore, I couldn't take the final mandarin exam at my university. After
explaining and discussing the situation with my mentor, she told me she had agreed to
give me a new opportunity to do my final exam. Although, I had to contact the teacher
myself before the start of the new academic year, and this is where the problem lies.
Talking with her face-to-face is already a very daunting task because she speaks very
little Portuguese, and she does not answer any Portuguese e-mails because she cannot
express herself clearly, nor understand the situation in detail for that matter.
So, what I'm asking here is for someone to translate an English text basically saying,
we need to schedule a new date due to my situation. It's a short text.
If anyone is kind enough to help, I would really appreciate it.
Thank you very much in advance, and again, I am sorry for asking this.
João.
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strikingstar Bilingual Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 5187 days ago 292 posts - 444 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin*, Cantonese, Swahili Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written)
| Message 37 of 50 11 September 2012 at 11:32am | IP Logged |
@Joao
You're looking at something like this: 我因家里出现了一点状况而急需赶回家。是否 能让我考试改期?如蒙慨
允,不胜感激。
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Homogenik Diglot Senior Member Canada Joined 4838 days ago 314 posts - 407 votes Speaks: French*, English Studies: Polish, Mandarin
| Message 38 of 50 24 September 2012 at 2:20pm | IP Logged |
I posted this elsewhere but wanted to try here too. Does anyone know where I can find an input method or simply
a font for Mac that allows the writing of both pinyin and hanzi together (pinyin on top or below the characters)?
Please say yes
:)
Edited by Homogenik on 24 September 2012 at 2:20pm
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wuyou Triglot Groupie Fiji Joined 6819 days ago 90 posts - 97 votes Speaks: Mandarin*, Japanese, English Studies: French
| Message 39 of 50 09 October 2012 at 6:03am | IP Logged |
Homogenik wrote:
I posted this elsewhere but wanted to try here too. Does anyone know
where I can find an input method or simply
a font for Mac that allows the writing of both pinyin and hanzi together (pinyin on top or
below the characters)?
Please say yes
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microsoft word's chinese version? it seems this software contains such function,but not
sure
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Homogenik Diglot Senior Member Canada Joined 4838 days ago 314 posts - 407 votes Speaks: French*, English Studies: Polish, Mandarin
| Message 40 of 50 10 October 2012 at 4:41pm | IP Logged |
Nope, I have Word for Mac and it doesn't have a font that does this (as far as I know and I think I tried them all).
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