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Postby Jotomicron » Saturday 6 March 2004 11:44:15am

Ok... some more phrases in other languages:

Hoy es sábado. Estoy en BaO, y veo que ustedes hablan muchas lenguas.
Oh, es verdad:
Hermione Weasley wrote:Donde tu?- Where do you live?
Hola!-Hi!
Buenos Dias!-Good Day
Buenos tardes-Good Afternoon
Buenos noches-Good night

Hermione, I'm almost sure you can't say Donde tu?, you need to add the verb: ¿Donde eres tu?
And it's Buenas tardes and Buenas noches, because "tardes" and "noches" are feminin nouns.
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Postby AngelicS_89 » Saturday 6 March 2004 12:58:25pm

Joto wrote:Hoy es sábado. Estoy en BaO, y veo que ustedes hablan muchas lenguas


Is this corect:
Today is Saturday.I'm on BaO .... .... that you speak many language(y veo?)

Beluka wrote:Qué tal estás? Yo bien. No sé de dónde eres, ¿Alemania, quizá? Me encantaría aprender alemán, pero creo que se me daría fatal


Could you translate this?It is a bit hard I understand just some of the words.

.....I'm good.I don't know where from is Alemania(is this corect?)....I ..... to learn aleman,cause I belive that is mine ... fatal (Not very good translated isn't it)
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Postby AngelicS_89 » Saturday 6 March 2004 1:05:42pm

Sorry for double posting forgot to answer one more post

Female_alien wrote:Hey Fluffy! Komm zuruck means come back. We lesrn Deutsch in scholl so I know it - not very much but enough
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Und ich liebe Deutsch nicht - Englisch ist schoner


Thanks!It really buged me for months!!!I love Deutsch more than French and I learn French :-? .And I learned English as a kid(from age 4)so I adore it,it's like a primary language for me :grin: Don't really know to write word on Deutch..I nkow how to tell a lot of them cause I have German MTV and I watch it every day :grin:
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Postby Jotomicron » Saturday 6 March 2004 1:16:29pm

Jotomicron wrote:Hoy es sábado. Estoy en BaO, y veo que ustedes hablan muchas lenguas

Maybe you understand it if I say that "ustedes hablan" is the same as "vosotros hablais".
The all translations would be: Today's Saturday, I'm in BaO and I see that you (plural) speak a lot of languages.

Beluka wrote:Qué tal estás? Yo bien. No sé de dónde eres, ¿Alemania, quizá? Me encantaría aprender alemán, pero creo que se me daría fatal

How are you? I'm ok. I don't know where you're from. Germany, maybe?. I'd be very pleased to lern German, but I think that (and this is some sort of idiomatic expression) I would be no good at it
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Postby Ferrus » Saturday 6 March 2004 6:02:46pm

Very good Spanish Joto!

But:
Hermione, I'm almost sure you can't say Donde tu?, you need to add the verb: ¿Donde eres tu?


in fact to say "where are you from?" you have to say ¿de donde eres tu? although strictly speaking the "tu" is unnesesary because the the verb indicates the person (in this case 2nd).
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Postby Krum » Saturday 6 March 2004 9:52:24pm

math is the universal language :) ...
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Postby AngelicS_89 » Saturday 6 March 2004 11:19:49pm

agree with you Krum...Thanks for translating Joto,you really helped :D
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Postby Jotomicron » Sunday 7 March 2004 12:58:10pm

The_Giant_Squid wrote:Very good Spanish Joto!

But:
Hermione, I'm almost sure you can't say Donde tu?, you need to add the verb: ¿Donde eres tu?


in fact to say "where are you from?" you have to say ¿de donde eres tu? although strictly speaking the "tu" is unnesesary because the the verb indicates the person (in this case 2nd).

Oh... of course!! I forgot that particular "de" thing!! That's because we in portugal would say "donde és (tu)?"... I just forgot I was "spanishing" and not "portuguesing"!!! Hahaha

BTW, Yes, Krum! I also agree with you! Math is and will always be the universal and non-temporal language... 2+2=4 (translation: Hurray for Math :lol: :D )
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Postby Beluka » Monday 8 March 2004 11:54:22am

Joto, thanks for tranlating that bit i wrote... It was really good!
Shame i miss the weekend posts :-?

so, Fluffy, are you german?

Where's the giant squid from?
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Postby Fool on the hill » Monday 8 March 2004 5:15:24pm

Gwared wrote:Well pomme de terre is also the French for potato, which is far less cool. It's like the German for Hippo is "horse of the Nile", or Nilpferd (ferd being horse and Nilp the Nile).


Actually it's "Nil" and "Pferd" - the Nil is pronounced like in "one nil to us" and I just don't know how to explain the pronunciation of Pferd :grin:

A few german sentences (we haven't had too many yet, I think):
Mein Name ist X. (My name is X)
Er/sie/es kommt aus Österreich/Deutschland. (He/she/it is from Austria/Germany)
Wie geht es dir? (How are you?)
Wie geht es euch? (How are you? in plural)
Ich mag Harry Potter sehr (gerne). (I like Harry Potter very much)

If you have any questions concerning German, feel free to ask... Oh, what I always wanted to ask: how do your keyboards look like? I mean, you don't have umlaut keys, have you? At least not every keyboard is an umlaut keyboard - the Swiss, for example, don't know "ß", they always write ss.
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Postby Phinea Rogue » Tuesday 9 March 2004 7:55:27pm

Eichhoernchenkatapult wrote:
Oh, what I always wanted to ask: how do your keyboards look like? I mean, you don't have umlaut keys, have you? At least not every keyboard is an umlaut keyboard - the Swiss, for example, don't know "ß", they always write ss.


Mine is a Slovak one, so there're no umlaut (?) keys, there's no ß, but there're long vowels like á, é, í, ó, ô... and some other things...
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Postby Amon Rê » Wednesday 10 March 2004 1:37:22am

I don't know how to describe mine...it has no accented characters...and only simple punctuation...I have codes that allow me to type in punctuated characters...

Do all the keyboards come with the standard ASDF JKL; middle row?
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Postby Broccoli » Wednesday 10 March 2004 9:31:15am

Mine looks like this ;)

1234567890-=
йцукенгшщзхъ
фывапролджэ\
ячсмитьбю.
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Postby Beluka » Wednesday 10 March 2004 11:34:43am

As far as i know, they usually are ASDFGHJKL (the spanish one includes "ñ" at the end of the row), which is called a QWERTY keyboard. I know it's different in France, but i don't remember the order of the letters.
i guess accents also change...
must be weird to write in english when your keyboard has cyrillic characters...
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Postby Broccoli » Wednesday 10 March 2004 2:52:54pm

Well, I actually have both Cyrillic and German characters.

By the way, in a German keyboard the Y and Z are swapped, so it's not a qwerty but a qwertz keyboard ;) And there is ö near l instead of ;.
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