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RE: Slightly OT... who here speaks chinese and or Japan... - 9/24/2005 4:46:54 AM   
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RE: Slightly OT... who here speaks chinese and or Japan... - 9/24/2005 4:49:20 AM   
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RE: Slightly OT... who here speaks chinese and or Japan... - 9/24/2005 4:52:11 AM   
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RE: Slightly OT... who here speaks chinese and or Japan... - 9/24/2005 4:52:57 AM   
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RE: Slightly OT... who here speaks chinese and or Japan... - 9/24/2005 4:55:19 AM   
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I think there already is, if you start counting the total number of languages spoken. Not all of us have English as first language.



How about some Danish? Like good morning and thank you.

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RE: Slightly OT... who here speaks chinese and or Japan... - 9/24/2005 4:58:00 AM   
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ya, I was the unit translater over there. Even though I've heard of some, I have never met another non Filipino that speaks besides myself lol.


Yo ,translator.. C3PO. Remind me of Windtalkers.

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RE: Slightly OT... who here speaks chinese and or Japan... - 9/24/2005 4:59:57 AM   
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Actually, Danish is considered a very difficult language to learn, because the same word or sentence can have multiple meanings based on which syllable you put the emphasis on. We also have a huuuuuuge array of colloquialisms that have a tendency to confuse foreigners mightily.

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RE: Slightly OT... who here speaks chinese and or Japan... - 9/24/2005 5:03:02 AM   
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Status: offline 		So I greet you now.. Godmorgen Herr Terminus. Jeg hedder Patrick. You play WITP? Tak and vi ses.

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RE: Slightly OT... who here speaks chinese and or Japan... - 9/24/2005 5:03:47 AM   
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RE: Slightly OT... who here speaks chinese and or Japan... - 9/24/2005 6:22:41 AM   
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Status: offline 		Well my only oriental language is "Mandarin for the obstetrician" I can say "Push" , Take a deep breath", "Did you break your water bag?" And a few other questions related to bodily functions that we won't get into here.

My Japanese doens't even get that far....

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RE: Slightly OT... who here speaks chinese and or Japan... - 9/24/2005 6:34:58 AM   
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Well my only oriental language is "Mandarin for the obstetrician" I can say "Push" , Take a deep breath", "Did you break your water bag?" And a few other questions related to bodily functions that we won't get into here.

My Japanese doens't even get that far....


Wonder what your Chinese clients say or scream just before their babies come out? But I am sure they are always grateful and says thank you very much.

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RE: Slightly OT... who here speaks chinese and or Japan... - 9/24/2005 7:34:38 AM   
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JEG indtale Dansk ligeledes , ved hjælp af i den indre.


ilovestrategy,

ako magsalita Tagalog din , kumuha ang tumulong ng ang interno.

Chez

< Message edited by ChezDaJez -- 9/24/2005 7:39:55 AM >

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RE: Slightly OT... who here speaks chinese and or Japan... - 9/24/2005 7:42:15 AM   
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RE: Slightly OT... who here speaks chinese and or Japan... - 9/24/2005 8:42:07 AM   
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RE: Slightly OT... who here speaks chinese and or Japan... - 9/24/2005 9:15:54 AM   
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RE: Slightly OT... who here speaks chinese and or Japan... - 9/24/2005 9:44:44 AM   
Monter_Trismegistos

 

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ORIGINAL: ChezDaJez

JA mówiæ po polsku tak¿e , z pomoc¹ ten Internet.

Chez


Well, translators aren't best for that work...



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RE: Slightly OT... who here speaks chinese and or Japan... - 9/24/2005 9:57:30 AM   
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terminus,

JEG indtale Dansk ligeledes , ved hjælp af i den indre.


ilovestrategy,

ako magsalita Tagalog din , kumuha ang tumulong ng ang interno.

Chez

I speak tagalog too, give help of the internal? Are you trying to say internet? If so, they just use the english word. Good try though! Almost got it!

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RE: Slightly OT... who here speaks chinese and or Japan... - 9/24/2005 10:40:50 AM   
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Monter_Trismegistos and ilovestrategy:

I kind of figured the translator didn't work very well. When I took the phrase it gave me and asked for a translation back to English, it came up with some weird sentences.

Anyways, this is the translator I used: http://www.tranexp.com/win/itserver.htm

Chez

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RE: Slightly OT... who here speaks chinese and or Japan... - 9/24/2005 11:23:28 AM   
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ORIGINAL: ChezDaJez

I got a feeling that didn't translate right.

Chez


I'd go with that feeling if I were you. Should be something like this:

"Jeg taler også dansk, ved hjælp af Internettet".

< Message edited by Terminus -- 9/24/2005 12:03:29 PM >

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RE: Slightly OT... who here speaks chinese and or Japan... - 9/24/2005 12:53:43 PM   
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Status: offline 		hehe, the only chinese i know is a little cantonese. Romanified, it pronounces like "mea mea diu lei" It means no,no, **** you.

And yes, patrick the japanese kanjis are chinese in origin, but while the chinese have simplified their kanjis, the japanese have kept them in their original more complicated form. For example: Sakkana (fish) in japanese is written like this : 魚　(not sure if you can read it). The chinese version has a straight line at the bottom instead of the 4 little dots I believe?

But actually yes I do believe if we add up the total number of languages spoken we should get quite an impressive amount! My first language is French personally.

On another note, the japanese just made a film about the last days of the Yamato, it is called 男達のやまと, roughly translated it means "the men's Yamato". It looks fairly good but I have yet to drag my ass to a theater to see it.

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RE: Slightly OT... who here speaks chinese and or Japan... - 9/24/2005 1:29:54 PM   
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hehe, the only chinese i know is a little cantonese. Romanified, it pronounces like "mea mea diu lei" It means no,no, **** you.

And yes, patrick the japanese kanjis are chinese in origin, but while the chinese have simplified their kanjis, the japanese have kept them in their original more complicated form. For example: Sakkana (fish) in japanese is written like this : ‹›@(not sure if you can read it). The chinese version has a straight line at the bottom instead of the 4 little dots I believe?

But actually yes I do believe if we add up the total number of languages spoken we should get quite an impressive amount! My first language is French personally.

On another note, the japanese just made a film about the last days of the Yamato, it is called ’j’B‚Ì‚â‚Ü‚Æ, roughly translated it means "the men's Yamato". It looks fairly good but I have yet to drag my ass to a theater to see it.


Shows that it is easier to learn bad things quickly!

Yep, I can see the fish kanji "fish " - it is actually the chinese word for fish! Yep, it is now simplify by replacing 4 dots with one horizontal line. I think your job of learning Chinese is not that difficult now that fish is alike in Chinese and Japanese. It is a matter of practice. So your mothertongue is French- said to be the most beautiful language in the world!

Humm, The Men' s Yamato. That is interesting. Too bad it is not available here. Wonder what is the next World War 2 movie coming out of Hollywood
Cheers!

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RE: Slightly OT... who here speaks chinese and or Japan... - 9/24/2005 3:02:13 PM   
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I got a feeling that didn't translate right.

Chez


I'd go with that feeling if I were you. Should be something like this:

"Jeg taler også dansk, ved hjælp af Internettet".


Terminus, you have funny language, you know? :D

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RE: Slightly OT... who here speaks chinese and or Japan... - 9/24/2005 6:05:48 PM   
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RE: Slightly OT... who here speaks chinese and or Japan... - 9/24/2005 6:08:27 PM   
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People think English is hard?!?


Actually I think English is the easiest language I know.

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RE: Slightly OT... who here speaks chinese and or Japan... - 9/24/2005 6:43:24 PM   
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Terminus, you have funny language, you know? :D


Says the Pole... I have long since given up trying to understand what my Polish classmates are saying when they talk among themselves.

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RE: Slightly OT... who here speaks chinese and or Japan... - 9/24/2005 7:21:21 PM   
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You have one guess where I picked that up.

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RE: Slightly OT... who here speaks chinese and or Japan... - 9/24/2005 8:23:18 PM   
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RE: Slightly OT... who here speaks chinese and or Japan... - 9/25/2005 9:02:22 AM   
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RE: Slightly OT... who here speaks chinese and or Japan... - 9/25/2005 3:04:23 PM   
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Maybe broken Japanese and Japanese dialect are hard to understand...
If an old Japanese man who is living Oominato talk to Kagoshima's old man, they totally cannot understand each other maybe.
I think Indonesian is much easier
How about Esperanto?

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RE: Slightly OT... who here speaks chinese and or Japan... - 9/25/2005 3:31:21 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Monter_Trismegistos

Terminus, you have funny language, you know? :D


Says the Pole... I have long since given up trying to understand what my Polish classmates are saying when they talk among themselves.


MT is right!

i can understand polish language,and MT can understand croatian (not all, but enough to get a picture). Well, it is logical, since the both languages are slavic.

Term, do Danish people understand Norwegians? I guess they can....

IMO, the toughest european language to learn is hungarian....



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