Languages

[same_difference]

Yesterday I mentioned on the work email list that I wanted to be able to say in as many languages as possible:

Hello. Do you speak English. I speak a little [insert language name here]. That was it.

Currently I have:

Thanks to Elmyra:

German: Guten Tag. Sprechen Sie Englisch? Ich spreche ein bisschen Deutsch. Das war's.

Czech (without special characters): Dobry den. Mluvite anglicki? Ja mluvim trochu ceski. To je vsechno.

Bulgarian (awkward transcription from the Cyrilic): Dobur den. Govorite li angliiski? Az govorya malko bulgarski. Tova e vsichko.

Thanks to Dantarien:

Welsh: Sut mae! Wyt ti'n siariad Saesneg? Dw i'n siariad bachigyn o Gymraeg. Mae hi'n hon.

(Pronounced: Shoo mai? Oo-eet teen SHAR-ee-ad SAE-sneg? Doo een SHAR-ee-ad back-EE-gin o GUM-rayg. Mai heen hon.)

Spanish: Buenos dias! Habla ingles? Hablo un poco de Espanol. Eso era el.

Thanks to P:

Swiss-German: Gruezi (with the u having 2 dots on top), reded Sie Englisch? I red e chlii Schwiizerduutsch (2 dots on both us again), da isch's xi.

Thanks to John

French: Bonjour! Parlez-vous Anglais? Je parle Français un peu. C'etait ça.

Thanks to kipperfish:

Australian: G'Day. Do you speak English? I speak Australian. That's it, fair dinkum.

Thanks to Almost Honest

class Dominic:
{
public:
bool SpeakEnglish (Person* you);
Dominic* ISpeak (Language lanuageName);

private:
short AmountISpeak;
}


Dominic::ISpeak (Language languageName)
{
return this;
}


Thanks to all my friends and anyone else who wants to add to please post comments. Pronunciation guides would also be appreciated.

Comments

[kipperfish.livejournal.com]

and what was wrong with my Australian effort?

French

[(Anonymous)]

Hey Dom,

Sorry for lack of replies/comments to stuff - being back on 56k for Xmas doesn't exactly inspire me to make long posts!

I was just gonna add French to your list of translations (it's not perfect, you might like to get someone else to check it...) -
"Bonjour! Parlez-vous Anglais? Je parle Français un peu. C'etait ça."

Cheers, j. :)

[almosthonest.livejournal.com]

Hey, where's my C++ endeavour? Any compiler would understand what you meant!

[same-difference.livejournal.com]

Its up, happy now?

Now just waiting for someone with the Japanese

[kipperfish.livejournal.com]

Hmm... my effort is missing "a little". Probably my fault in my haste to make a very poor joke yesterday!!

[kipperfish.livejournal.com]

I can give you portuguese....

Hello. Você fala o inglês? Eu falo um pouco portuguese. Aquele é ele

[almosthonest.livejournal.com]

May-be!

[dantarian.livejournal.com]

Apart from the missing semi-colon at the end of the class definition, anyway :-)

[kipperfish.livejournal.com]

Not to mention the "lanuageName" that appears out of nowhere..... :-)

[elmyra.livejournal.com]

Eeeeek! Schwiizerduutsch scary! (I'm fluent in German and I can make out about 60% of what's written there, and probably less than that when spoken...)

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[fourmyle.livejournal.com]

I think this will help.

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Meri

[(Anonymous)]

Afrikaans: Hallo, praat jy Engels? Ek praat net 'n bietjie Afrikaans.

Or alternatively, the more polite form (to an older person, say) is:
Hallo. Praat u Engels? Ek praat net 'n bietjie Afrikaans.

[xanthipe]

My Vlaams is a bit rusty, but I believe the translation would be something like:

Goeiendag! Spreekt jij Engels? Ik spreek een beetje Vlaams. Dat was alles.