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Postby harrylover » Wednesday 12 May 2004 10:44:04am

wow, that was great female alien. We call the cases "Fälle". I know it´s a difficult language...if you need help you can ask me if you want! :grin:
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Postby Female_alien » Wednesday 12 May 2004 10:59:48am

Thanks :oops: :grin: I just noticed I wrote besinders instead of besonders :o But it was just a lapsus calami. If I won't know to say something in German before my exam - I'll ask you.
I learn Latin in school too. A dead language lol

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Please pronounce these Chinese Harry books....

Postby staro4 » Saturday 15 May 2004 8:24:33pm

please pronounce these Chinese Harry Potter books for me

http://www.young-0.com/php/Data2/root/i ... -small.jpg
Hali Pote - ?????

http://www.young-0.com/php/Data2/root/i ... -small.jpg
Hali Pote - ?????

http://www.young-0.com/php/Data2/root/i ... -small.jpg
Hali Pote - ?????


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Postby Ferrus » Sunday 16 May 2004 10:22:08am

LOL what was Harry doing on the back of a dinosaur??
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Postby Fool on the hill » Sunday 16 May 2004 11:52:48am

Maybe that's a dragon :lol:
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Postby fierce » Monday 17 May 2004 12:22:53pm

OMG That made me laugh.

That is soooooooooooo a dinosaur! it's a tyrannosaurus!!!!!!!!!! Why would they do that?

I heard about this book that a chinese man wrote that was his version of book 5 because it was taking so long to come out... it was so funny. It was called "Harry Potter and Leopard Walk Up To Dragon". Here is part of it:

Harry doesn't know how long it will take to wash the sticky cream cake off his face.

For a civilised young man it is disgusting to have dirt on any part of his body. He lies in the high-quality china bathtub, keeps wiping his face, and thinks about Dali's face, which is as fat as the bottom of Aunt Penny.


Here is the website link to the article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainmen ... 092661.stm

LOL I almost died. so wrong.
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Postby Jotomicron » Tuesday 18 May 2004 4:36:58pm

Hahahaha!!! :lol:

Anyway, that IS a dinosaur! Are those the frontpages of the chinese versions of Harry Potter?? So strange!
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Postby harrylover » Saturday 29 May 2004 7:04:43am

I´m also able to speak a bit japanese:

watashiwa harrylover desu

I´m harrylover :grin:
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Postby choki » Saturday 29 May 2004 12:18:33pm

Ok, this is freaky...I'm a chinese but I ain't have any ideas what those titles means...
I will translate literally
the one with the centaur and basilisk - Harry Potter and the Leopard walk dragon
the one with the small green orb - Harry Potter and the prevent water pearl
the one with the T-rex - Harry Potter and the golden armour (perhaps a name of a beetle or a dino, I'm not too sure)

But whatever it is, it is definitely not the chinese version of HP series.
The correct chinese edition should have the same cover as the American edition.
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Postby Broccoli » Monday 6 June 2005 8:59:06am

I have found a lovely site with words in different languages:

http://www.blinde-kuh.de/sprachen/zahlen1-10.html

It starts with numbers, but there are other categories, like animals, food, etc.
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Postby Heidi_hoho » Tuesday 7 June 2005 5:17:54am

I'm going to take German in a couple years, I think, because so many of my relatives are from Germany (my grandparents were both born there).
But for now:

Iya ancay eakspay igpay atinaly!

I can speak Pig Latin!
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Postby Scarlet Lioness » Tuesday 7 June 2005 5:27:20am

Hehe, What's Pig Latin?

I speak English, but I can speak Maori a bit and just a little French...
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Postby Phoenix in the Ashes » Tuesday 7 June 2005 7:06:10am

English... tiny bit of Maori.... tiny bit of spanish.
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Postby Scarlet Lioness » Tuesday 7 June 2005 7:08:27am

Oh yeah a bit of Spanish too... :grin:
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Postby ellenmay » Monday 20 June 2005 8:37:43pm

I learned Latin in school. I know a little German. (my dad was born in Germany) I also know some Spanish.
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