Monox D. I-Fly Senior Member Indonesia monoxdifly.iopc.us Joined 5146 days ago 762 posts - 664 votes Speaks: Indonesian*
| Message 1 of 17 11 March 2014 at 1:36pm | IP Logged |
Hey everyone, I want to ask: How to support your friends to raise their spirit in your language (or any others that you know)?
In my language, it is "Semangat!" (Indonesia).
Japan: Ganbatte!
Korea: Hwaiting!
German: Begeisterung!
Dutch: Houd moed!
Spain: iManten el spiritu!
Tagalog: Laban lang!
Vietnam: Co len!
Hebrew: Shomar roo'ach!
Any help is appreciated. Thank you.
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Bao Diglot Senior Member Germany tinyurl.com/pe4kqe5 Joined 5777 days ago 2256 posts - 4046 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: French, Spanish, Japanese, Mandarin
| Message 2 of 17 11 March 2014 at 2:30pm | IP Logged |
German: Begeisterung!
Nope.
It depends on the situation. But Begeisterung! ... sounds like a really sarcastic remark when seeing somebody else's frustration.
I might say:
Kopf hoch! Das wird schon wieder.
Nicht aufgeben!
Du schaffst das!
... but, usually I'd assume that the other person is already struggling hard and when they're voicing or showing their frustration it's for a reason and they need somebody to listen and take them seriously, and not some commonplaces to make them shut up.
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Monox D. I-Fly Senior Member Indonesia monoxdifly.iopc.us Joined 5146 days ago 762 posts - 664 votes Speaks: Indonesian*
| Message 3 of 17 11 March 2014 at 3:55pm | IP Logged |
Bao wrote:
German: Begeisterung!
Nope.
It depends on the situation. But Begeisterung! ... sounds like a really sarcastic remark when seeing somebody else's frustration.
I might say:
Kopf hoch! Das wird schon wieder.
Nicht aufgeben!
Du schaffst das!
... but, usually I'd assume that the other person is already struggling hard and when they're voicing or showing their frustration it's for a reason and they need somebody to listen and take them seriously, and not some commonplaces to make them shut up. |
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Thanks for the input.
Do you bother to translate those words to English, please? :)
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Leurre Bilingual Pentaglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5436 days ago 219 posts - 372 votes Speaks: French*, English*, Korean, Haitian Creole, SpanishC2 Studies: Japanese
| Message 4 of 17 11 March 2014 at 7:24pm | IP Logged |
Nice topic, that's one way to keep you motivated!
I notice you have 화이팅 for Korean. While this is definitely spot on, maybe we could
also add '힘내' [Heemnae, or whatever the romanization comes out to], since it is a pure
Korean expression, and not a loanword like hwaiting or Japanese's whaito.
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Bao Diglot Senior Member Germany tinyurl.com/pe4kqe5 Joined 5777 days ago 2256 posts - 4046 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: French, Spanish, Japanese, Mandarin
| Message 5 of 17 11 March 2014 at 8:33pm | IP Logged |
Oops. Somehow I seem to have believed that anyone who understands English should also understand German.
Kopf hoch! Das wird schon wieder.
Hold your head up high, it's gonna be alright.
Nicht aufgeben!
Don't give up!
Du schaffst das!
You'll make it!
Edited by Bao on 11 March 2014 at 8:35pm
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Crush Tetraglot Senior Member ChinaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5876 days ago 1622 posts - 2299 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Mandarin, Esperanto Studies: Basque
| Message 6 of 17 11 March 2014 at 9:26pm | IP Logged |
Mandarin: 加油
Spanish: ¡Ánimo!
Catalan: Ànim!
Euskara: Aupa!
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Monox D. I-Fly Senior Member Indonesia monoxdifly.iopc.us Joined 5146 days ago 762 posts - 664 votes Speaks: Indonesian*
| Message 7 of 17 12 March 2014 at 4:06am | IP Logged |
Leurre wrote:
Nice topic, that's one way to keep you motivated!
I notice you have 화이팅 for Korean. While this is definitely spot on, maybe we could
also add '힘내' [Heemnae, or whatever the romanization comes out to], since it is a pure
Korean expression, and not a loanword like hwaiting or Japanese's whaito. |
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Thank you. :) And even "Whaito" in Japan is also a loanword from "Fight".
Diglot wrote:
Oops. Somehow I seem to have believed that anyone who understands English should also understand German.
Kopf hoch! Das wird schon wieder.
Hold your head up high, it's gonna be alright.
Nicht aufgeben!
Don't give up!
Du schaffst das!
You'll make it! |
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Sorry, I'm not even a native English speaker. Thank you for the corrections, though. :)
Crush wrote:
Mandarin: 加油
Spanish: ¡Ánimo!
Catalan: Ànim!
Euskara: Aupa! |
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Whose languages are Catalan and Euskara? And how to read the Mandarin one?
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BaronBill Triglot Senior Member United States HowToLanguages.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4700 days ago 335 posts - 594 votes Speaks: English*, French, German Studies: Spanish, Mandarin, Persian
| Message 8 of 17 12 March 2014 at 5:47am | IP Logged |
Monox D. I-Fly wrote:
And how to read the Mandarin one? |
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I believe the Pinyin for the Mandarin one is: Jiāyóu
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