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Taffy

Taffy

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i have started using a service called "babylon" for translating.

i speak a little german but used to be quite good, so i've recently been buying and selling to our saxon bruder and of coure get stuck on a few words.

i just write in english in a box in babylon, translate to german, cut 'n paste onto ebay or whatever! it's superb at it. also when they write back i can copy and paste to babylon and understand what the hell they are on about!

try it!

it ought to be a service here. simply say welcome in 20 languages, invite them to use babylon. there is one disadvantage though....

the froggies will be able to communicate with us!!!!!!!!!!!

:lol: :lol:

regards

Taffy
 
Yes, I agree with you Taffy, but as a guy, who speaks in two languages, I must say one thing.You cant translate directly some of the words, and build the sentence using english grammar.A german grammar has very simmilar structure to Polish grammar, so we haven't had so many problems with grammar at shool(now I completly forgott jerry's language- It was more than 10 years ago)They got just 3 tenses, and compare to english,where you got some around 18 tenses.Example, word "immediately", very often in english, is the last word in sentence.In German (and Polish), that word very often sticks at the beginning.Whole sentence sounds bit funny, when you read it after beeing translated directly.
Regards, Kriss
 
german has four tenses krisbumm

masuline, femanine, nuetral and plural i think. anyway, have a look at babylon and then you can visit a foriegn ebay and buy with a little more confidence!

i have had trouble this week buying an arrow race exhaust for n FE600) from germany. i wanted to pay via paypal and he didn't. he was using long sentances in geman that were losing me but after i used babylon both ways all was good!

perhaps the yanks would like to use it when talking to you pete!

regards

Taffy
 
Sorry Taffy, but that what I read from your post, they aren't tenses.That are persons:Masulime-male ( he), Femanine-female (she),Neutral-(It), plural-just plural like in english(we,you, they).Tenses in German are 3 basic, but in formal, absolutely perfect use, they are 5:
Present tense - Das Präsens
Simple past tense- Das Imperfekt / Präteritum
Past Perfect Tense- Das Perfekt
Simple future Tense - Das Futur I
Future perfect Tense- Das Futur II
Something like that, If I remember.

However, I used to help my polish friend to sell his Bolid F3 Reynard.He wanted me to post an adv to some website with racing cars and bolids (www.Racecardirect if I remember).Aparently, there was one german bloke, who responded him about that adv.The communication threshold we came out, because The bloke had friend in his office, who speaks english, so all way from buyer to seller was :buyer was mailing in german to his friend, then he translated that from German to English and then, he was sending me an email.I read mail, had translated mail from English to Polish and had to sent it to my Polish friend.I've translated few emails using that complicated way, but at the end of the day, the bolid Reynard has been sold.uhhhh....

Try to build an adv on German ebay both in English and German (the description) Lotts of germans speak english!!!
 
heeeyt!

i just sold a camchain to an eyetie and spoke fluent italian i think.

mind you if his siter turns up wearing something red and kinky it might have been "lost in translation!"

LOL!!!

Taffy
 
send her over here if shes out of spec, "bush" mechanic is par for the course with Doublentendres not sure if i can sleeve down if its close, thin walled liners and warpage and all that, we might have to build up your piston.

Bushie
 
Io vado a letto me un bel po'latino se questo è ciò che si trasforma up!

we used to have a comedy show here called "harry enfield" and his comedy partner is a 'paul whitehouse'. paul pretended to be a continntal footie player and he would speak a kinda latino bollocks and drop the occasional word in such: dominde nato mucha dingo on my head straight in the goal man!

i look at the above and obvious;y the eyeties don't use 'me' and 'up' in quite the same way we do!!!!

regards

Taffy
 
nice when these tech discussions bear fruit glad its all making sense now

once in a strange land wif nowt to me name but a rucksack full of smelly socks and some rubber products I met a girl who in effect said she was at an advantage over aussies cause she could speak 4 languages whereas we only spoke english so she could understand us but we not her etc etc...

3 of us spoke in aussie slang witn drunken drawls for a good 3 hours after that

she left us after 30 min.. couldn't understand a word she said. lucky we wasn't proper english like from yorkshire or some welsh fellas

me missus ist aus deutchland or summink taffy I can help translate german cookie recipies if you need it doing


regards
Bushie
 
Could it be that when they start talking cookie recipies they like you?, I always thought that when they did they didn't... :)
 
ha! maybe they think the same about us when we start talking bikes and engines hmmm

I got the darlin to fill up her car with oil, said oils over there in dem bottles wif delo400 on em... she comes back later... "ahm have you got any more bottles? its not full yet" turns out you can get more than 20L of oil in a toyota22R engine before it comes out the top.

I can't make cookies though.
 

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