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FearfulJesuit

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Translations Needed: Talk to Me in X
« on: July 14, 2012, 01:14:13 am »
Here's the problem with being a polyglot: if where you live is a highly monolingual area, and is monolingual for hundreds of miles around, how are you supposed to find people to speak with?

Well, you sort of have to advertise yourself. To that end, I'm thinking about designing a series of pins and buttons. The pins will be large enough to be read but not obnoxiously large, and they will have "Talk to me in X" in X (where X is a language), with the associated flag as the background.

So I need translations. For the following languages, "Talk to me in X":

Portuguese
Spanish
Catalan
French
Italian
Romanian
Irish
Scottish Gaelic
Manx
Welsh
Cornish
Breton
Dutch
German
Icelandic
Faroese
Norwegian
Swedish
Danish
Polish
Czech
Slovak
Russian
Ukranian
Belarusian
Slovenian
Croatian
Serbian
Bulgarian
Latvian
Lithuanian
Greek
Albanian
Finnish
Estonian
Hungarian
Arabic
Turkish
Farsi
Hindi (and any other Indian languages you can think of)
Mandarin
Japanese
Korean
Vietnamese
Cambodian
Thai
Indonesian
Swahili
Afrikaans
Malagasy

That should do, I think. Sure, some of you nattering naysayers might say that nobody speaks Cornish (and that's completely true), but, hey, it costs nothing to design, and it's all in good fun. And even if your Cornish is rusty, it makes a good conversation starter. Any other languages you know that have national status will also be used. So help out?
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Re: Translations Needed: Talk to Me in X
« Reply #1 on: July 14, 2012, 01:20:22 am »
For Spanish, "Hablame." or "Hablame en español." should do it. I'm far from fluent, though.

Interesting idea. Sorry I can't help much; I'm no polyglot wizard.
« Last Edit: July 14, 2012, 01:36:38 am by Lectorog »
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Re: Translations Needed: Talk to Me in X
« Reply #2 on: July 14, 2012, 01:44:44 am »
Korean: 저와 한국어로 대화해 주세요. (~= Please converse with me in Korean)



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Re: Translations Needed: Talk to Me in X
« Reply #3 on: July 14, 2012, 04:05:57 am »
Something similar already exists.
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Re: Translations Needed: Talk to Me in X
« Reply #4 on: July 14, 2012, 08:44:11 am »
Too lazy to click lorb's links !

French : "Parlez-moi en français." Talk to me in french.
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Re: Translations Needed: Talk to Me in X
« Reply #5 on: July 14, 2012, 09:06:43 am »
Sige, mag-usap tayo ng tagalog.

Sana, yung tagalog, you listed it among your known languages.

Pero, wala akong magagawa kung hindi ka marunong mag tagalog.
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Re: Translations Needed: Talk to Me in X
« Reply #6 on: July 14, 2012, 09:14:01 am »
'Mów do mnie po polsku'. Talk to me in Polish.

Mów = Muff (as in 'muffin')
do = do (do re mi fa sol...)
Mnie = no idea how to say it in 'english' way.
Po = Poe
Polsku = Pol (as in 'poll') and Sku (as in 'skull')
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Re: Translations Needed: Talk to Me in X
« Reply #7 on: July 14, 2012, 07:39:48 pm »
Norwegian:

Snakk med meg på norsk

Talk to me in norwegian

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Re: Translations Needed: Talk to Me in X
« Reply #8 on: July 14, 2012, 08:01:52 pm »
From my 2 years of Japanese:

Romaji: Nihongo de watashi ni hanasu kudasai

For Reals: 日本語で私に話すください。

(Just swapped in 'Japanese'. I normally asked "Please speak to me in English" to my teacher.  :P))
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Re: Translations Needed: Talk to Me in X
« Reply #9 on: July 14, 2012, 08:13:55 pm »
Well, for a direct translation would be
"Praat Nederlands tegen mij"


But that would probably considered quite rude, since it uses the imperative form (you're more demanding it then asking it). A more Dutch way would probably be to use
"Ik spreek Nederlands",
Meaning "I speak Dutch"
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Re: Translations Needed: Talk to Me in X
« Reply #10 on: July 14, 2012, 08:46:04 pm »
"Snak med mig på dansk"

But as Virex mentioned, it's probably a bit more polite to say "jeg taler dansk", since It's more informative and less "demanding".

Oh yeah, it's Danish. Extremely similar to Norwegian bokmål, at least in writing. :P
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Re: Translations Needed: Talk to Me in X
« Reply #11 on: July 15, 2012, 02:38:09 am »
Quote from: Barbarossa TSG on July 14, 2012, 08:01:52 pm
Romaji: Nihongo de watashi ni hanasu kudasai

Hanasu is unconjugated. Try hanashite.
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Re: Translations Needed: Talk to Me in X
« Reply #12 on: July 15, 2012, 03:25:05 am »
Quote from: dhokarena56 on July 14, 2012, 01:14:13 am
Lithuanian
Hah, wow...

 "Kalbėk/Kalbėkite su manimi Lietuviškai."

 "Kalbėk" is a more casual form you use when talking to friends and family, "Kalbėkite" is a more polite or official form, which you use to talk to strangers, authority or your elders (except your family, though about a hundred years ago and earlier, the polite form was used to talk with your parents as well). So I don't know, use the one that's more fitting. It's pretty much exactly the same thing as in Russian.
 Also don't bother trying to pronounce it, you'll get it wrong. Lithuanian is...weird...

 I also know Russian, but don't have a cyrillic keyboard, and German, but I'm really bad at it and don't want to make any mistakes, so...
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Re: Translations Needed: Talk to Me in X
« Reply #13 on: July 15, 2012, 05:37:05 am »
OP should cross out already translated languages.
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Re: Translations Needed: Talk to Me in X
« Reply #14 on: July 15, 2012, 05:56:32 am »
Czech: Promluvme si česky. (~ let's have a conversation in Czech)

Quote from: Barbarossa TSG on July 14, 2012, 08:01:52 pm
From my 2 years of Japanese:

Romaji: Nihongo de watashi ni hanasu kudasai

For Reals: 日本語で私に話すください。

(Just swapped in 'Japanese'. I normally asked "Please speak to me in English" to my teacher.  :P))

I'd say: 日本語で話しましょう (nihon go de hanashimashou, ~ let's speak in Japanese)
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