NationStates Jolt Archive

Version 2.1-Alphabetized, Added more languages: Ancients, African

Often, users may need help identifying or translating a language, or even just plain talking in it. So I have an idea: Let's create a listing of all users who can help with foreign languages. Please post which languages you are fluent enough to recognize and/or help with. Also, PLEASE TG me to frauds, bad translators,mistakes.... I don't require examples. In addition, tell me exactly what languages you can do IN ENGLISH!


Afrikaans {Afrikaans}-Rotovia-
Ancient Greek {COMING SOON}-The blessed Chris
Ancient Egyptian {COMING SOON}-
Ancient Latin {COMING SOON}-
Arabic {عربية}-The Genius Masterminds,Arab League
Bahasa Melayu {بهاس ملايو}-Greedy Pig
Bulgarian {Български}-
Catalan {Català}-
Chinese {中文}-Mataichi
Cree {COMING SOON}-Sinuhue
Danish {Dansk}-General of general,Relative Liberty
Dutch {Nederlands}-Yannia,The Blaatschapen,Legless Pirates,imported_Sozy
Esperanto {Esperanto}-Palixia, Sel Appa
Farsi {فارسی}-Aerou,Arab League
Finnish {Suomi}-Perkeleenmaa
French {Français}-Sel Appa,Secluded Islands,Super-power,Venus Mound,Psov,Paradiesonearth,Arab League,Randomlittleisland,The blessed Chris,Imperial Aaronia,imported_Sozy,Autolyse,Siull
Greek {Ελληνικά}-Fujah
Gælic {Gæilge}-Lochiel,Ifreann,Eh-oh
German {Deutsch}-North Island,Fujah,SoWiBi,Right-Bank,Leonstein,Paradiesonearth,imported_Sozy
Ukraine,Yannia,Nietzsche Heretics,Laerod,Siull
Hebrew {עברית}-Arab League
Hindi {COMING SOON}-Aryavartha
Icelandic {Íslenska}-General of general,North Island
Italian {Italiano}-Jibea,Arab League,Robot ninja pirates
Japanese {日本語}-Communist atlantis,The Genius Masterminds
Korean {한국어 / 조선어}-The Genius Masterminds,Wherramaharasinghastan
Latin {Latina}-Lochiel,Secluded Islands,Palixia,Paradiesonearth,PasturePastry,The blessed Chris
Latvian {Latviešu}-Style of dzan
Luxembourgish {Lëtzebuergësch}-Paradiesonearth
Middle English {COMING SOON}-
Old English {Englisc}-
N'kosi {COMING SOON}-Rotovia-
Norwegian {Norsk}-North Island,Relative Liberty
Polish {Polski}-Aerou
Portuguese {Português}-Psov
Romanian {Română}-Argesia
Russian {Русский}-Right-Bank Ukraine,Adjacent to Belarus,PasturePastry
Spanish {Español}-Eh-oh,Light Keepers,Mexibainia,Sinuhue,New Granada,Yupaenu,Paradiesonearth,Aplastaland,Frangland,Siull
Swedish {Svenska}-North Island,Sonaj,Relative Liberty,Cromotar
Tagalog {Latviešu)}-Palixia,Pepe Dominguez
Taino {COMING SOON}-Dostanuot Loj
Tamil {COMING SOON}-Aryavartha
Ukrainian {Українська}-Right-Bank Ukraine
Urdu {اردو}-The Genius Masterminds
Visaya {COMING SOON}-Pepe Dominguez
Xhosa {IsiXhosa}-Rotovia-

No Gaelic or Latin, eh? Dern, I'm out of a job.

hablo Español, no hablo mucho bueno pero bastante bueno

.......agus gaeilge freisin

Great! I'll add those!

Fluent in icelandic and danish ... I can identify and undarstand all the other scandinavian languages too, except finnish, that stuff is impossible.

I am fluent in:
Icelandic-Íslenska
Norwegian-Norsk
Swedish-Svenska
German-Deutsch
English-English

I was just about to add you. ;)

I was just about to add you. ;)
Great :)

Latin
French

Updated

***This is a great idea. I like it!!

Add me to the Spanish list please. I am fairly fluent in that.

My Hebrew, however is limited . You can put my name there too if you'd like. However, I'll let users know up front that I am not fluent enough to be fully conversational in it. (I can understand and roughly translate small amounts at a time, but cannot carry on an ongoing chat in Hebrew -especially since my qwerty keyboard has no Hebrew characters.) -If someone wanted words in the Hebrew alphabet, though, I could use special characters in Open Office and then cut and paste them into my post.

日本語 is my only perfectly fluent one, so ill put that down, ive been translating for abotu year now anyway

I can translate French quite nicely

Think I'd trust Eh-oh with Gaelic more than anyone considering he's from Ireland.. I know a fair amount of spanish and it gets better if I can read it. So, I guess I can be added there.

French is really the only other language I'm fluent in.

I can help with german and greek.

Bahasa Melayu

Malaysian language, Nearly similar to Bahasa Indonesia.

I scored a A' in it 5 years ago. :D

Bah. Who cares about this part of the world and their crappy language which only some 200 million people use. :p

EDIT: Oh yeah, if you do call upon my mediocre services, msg my nation rather than my Jolt. I rarely check my Jolt message box.

Some Italian. I could help some people unless they use a dailect, or use the evil adjectives of death which I know little about. Also i can not spell to good.

Think I'd trust Eh-oh with Gaelic more than anyone considering he's from Ireland.. I know a fair amount of spanish and it gets better if I can read it. So, I guess I can be added there.

They never spoke Gaelic in Ireland, that is a common error. Gaelic was in Scottland, the Irish spoke Gaeglic (again I have difficulty spelling even my native language) or something that is very similar to gaelic.

Updated.

Last post prior to today: 01-05-2005!

Gruesome gravedigging, Batman! :rolleyes:

Polish, some Farsi (currently taking classes), and limited Palaun (Belauan) :).

hablo Español, no hablo mucho bueno pero bastante bueno

.......agus gaeilge freisin

mise freisin.english too

They never spoke Gaelic in Ireland, that is a common error. Gaelic was in Scottland, the Irish spoke Gaeglic (again I have difficulty spelling even my native language) or something that is very similar to gaelic.

they spoke scots gaeilc in scotland,thats the difference.despite the fact the language is originally scottish our version is gaelic and theirs is scots gaelic

Fluent in icelandic and danish ... I can identify and undarstand all the other scandinavian languages too, except finnish, that stuff is impossible.
Maybe because Finnish isn't a Scandinavian language at all? English and Chinese are just as related.

Anyway, in Finnish, language names are spelled without the initial capital, the language is "suomi", while the country is "Suomi". The idea that a language, weekday, or month name is a proper name is silly anyway.

We did have a Finnish thread somewhen...

Spanish.
Cree. (Nehiyaw)

Can translate into English from French and Portuguese, but not so great the other way around.

Last post prior to today: 01-05-2005!

Gruesome gravedigging, Batman!

I thought it might still be helpful.

Some mandarin. (chinese) ( traditional writing)

I'm fluent in Japanese, Korean, Urdu and Arabic and obviously English.

(Currently learning Chinese).

My father used to work in Pakistan and U.A.E, so that's how I learned. My grandfather knew Korean, so I learned from there and my mother is half Chinese so I'm learning that.

And German (from school).

awesome thread. would love to help. i'll do englsih-german and german-english anytime. i could do basic translations from french and spanish into eithe rof these two languages as well.

don't let non-understanding of a language keep you rom participating in their threads..:D (right, you dutch and italian people? ;) )

I am fluent in Tamil and Hindi.

Anybody else? I am feeling lonely here..

真的嗎？

I am fluent in Tamil and Hindi.

Anybody else? I am feeling lonely here..

You're not lonely, I know Urdu, a "brother" to Hindi.

Kaise ho aap?

(Hehe)

Russian, German, and Ukrainian.

You're not lonely, I know Urdu, a "brother" to Hindi.

Kaise ho aap?

(Hehe)

Ji, hum tho badiya hain. Aap Kaise hain?

Aap to pehle likha tha ki aapka pithaji pakistan mein reha tha. Kitne saal aur kab?

(My Hindi is a bit tapori, courtesy of me living in Mumbai, Bihar etc)

Mein tho theek hoon.

Mere abu Pakistan mein kaam karthe-the ek saal ke liye aur Lahore ke undar kaam karthe-the.

I also watch Indian films, lol.

Aap ne Bunty Aur Babli dekhi hain?

I speak fluent spanish and broken japanese, and could help translate italian or french into english.

I have spoken French since i was very young and am fluent, i also speak an adequate ammount of Portuguese...

Mein tho theek hoon.

Mere abu Pakistan mein kaam karthe-the ek saal ke liye aur Lahore ke undar kaam karthe-the.

Lahore accha jaga thaa. Abhi udhar bhi yeh islamist logon bahut problems kar rahe hain. Aapke abu kab raha tha udhar?


I also watch Indian films, lol.

Aap ne Bunty Aur Babli dekhi hain?

Nahi dekha. Acha hei kya?

Mein jyaada bollywood movies watch nahi kartha hoon. Achaa films bahut rare hain. Pehle Tamil movies dekh raha tha, ab woh bi chod-diya. Sab ek-hi bakwaas hain. Boy meets girl. Dance around trees. Happy ending.

Dutch is my native language, and i know enough of German to translate to English.

us heretics want it to be noticed that we can do just as well as sowibi.

Updated to here and alphabetizing soon. Thanks so much for the reponse. Also, this thread isn't for speaking in these languages. Please state just what you can do(in English).

Me speako Spanish

If anyone needs any help in American Sign Language, just let me know. It's kind of hard over the computer, but if someone is really having a hard time, we can make it work.

If you need an on-line dictionary, this works well: http://commtechlab.msu.edu/sites/aslweb/index.htm

You missed my Chinese?

I'm fluent in Dutch and English. I also know a bit of French and German, but not enough to really translate for other people :)

I'm going to be doind daily or so updates. Please don't pester me, thankies!

Also, my computer can't display Hindi/Tamil characters, so if anyone knows where I can download them...

I can speak and read Ancient Egyptian.

Do you think this is true? Or is this false up to you to decide.

Afrikaans
Xhosa (Yes, that's the one with the clicking)
N'kosi

German {Deutsch}-North Island,Fujah,SoWiBi,Right-Bank Ukraine,Yannia,Nietzsche Heretics
Well, here I am...

You can put me down for Russian (and possibly limited help with related languages)

yopenese and spanish(semi-fluent) you can put me down for, all other languages i'm not good enough in(yet, i'm learning many others)

I speak Korean. I'm not fluent, but I am capable of translating short sections of text. Just don't lump like, 10 pages on me :p
I also speak a little russian, but it's quite marginal.

Me-Dutch

I don't dare to put on any others cause many are better than me

Afrikaans
Xhosa (Yes, that's the one with the clicking)
N'kosi
Can you write a little sample text in Xhosa (or is it !Xhosa)?

Finnish:
Järjestelmällisen toisinajattelun kitkemisen voidaan sanoa olevan ainoastaan kaikkien itsevaltaisten yhteiskuntajärjestelmien piirre, ei niinkään määritelmä. Varsinainen itsevalta on mahdollista vain, kun jokainen on ostettavissa, mihin vaaditaan monimutkaisia, jopa tarkoin suunniteltuja korruptiorakenteita. Tällaisia rakenteita oli havaittavissa muun muassa äärikansallismielisissä valtioissa toisen maailmansodan aikana.

I can do Tagalong and Esperanto... Yea, my school had some pretty wierd language choises, I'm fluent in both because I live in Papau New Guinea for 1 year.

EDIT: Actually if so dont put down Esperanto or Tagalong but instead, use most Scandanavian languages, except Greenlandic, Serbian and if the time comes, I have mastered Latin and speak it as well as English.

I'm fluent in:
- luxembourgish
- german
- french
- spanish

and i might be able to translate latin as well (i'll have to refresh my latin knowledge anyway for university)

Fluent

Arabic
Farsi
English
French


and ok in
Italian
Hebrew

العربية هي اللغة الام

You can put me down for Russian and Latin.

My French is fairly good but I'm not fluent (je parlerai francais seulement a lundi pour Oxfam, une oevre de bienfaisance).

French, Latin and Ancient Greek

Latvian
English

Completely fluent in swedish, can translate german with some problem. Same goes for norwegian and danish.

A site where you can translate english-swedish-a number of languages: http://www-lexikon.nada.kth.se/skolverket/swe-eng.shtml

Well...i'm barely conversational in French and Japanese...don't know how reliable I am as a translator, though. :p

Updated to here for today. Thanks so much to all who have contributed. I hope you are all legit. ;)

Swedish and, to some extent, Danish and Norwegian.

I can speak, English!
I can translate Most french and i understand tiny bits of Spanish. :D :D :D

Please give some examples, it'd be fun to see what kind of languages they are, and to verify that it's actually true. With native orthography + for other than Latin alphabets, some sane transcription (NONE of that "English spelling" shit, which is worth-free).

Olisi hienoa nähdä esimerkkejä siitä minkälaisia kieliä osaatte, ja samalla varmentaa, ettette vain väitä. Esimerkit mielellään oman kirjoitusjärjestelmänsä mukaan + muille kuin latinalaisia aakkosia käyttäville jokin järkevä translitterointi (EI mitään englannin mukaan translitterointeja, joista ei ole hyötyä kenellekään).

(Orthography: AEIOU as in Spanish, Ä fronted A as in English "bat", Ö rounded E closest to English 'er', Y rounded I with no English counterpart. Stress on first syllable. Doubled letters pronounced simply longer.)

Updated to here for today. Thanks so much to all who have contributed. I hope you are all legit. ;)

hey,im not there for irish,nor is eh-oh?
ceard ata ag dul sios?

I speak Italian pretty well. Not fluent, but I know enough to get the general meaning out of almost anything.

[QUOTE=Perkeleenmaa]Please give some examples,]

So, i thaught i would give you a breif examle of how much french i speak:

Je m'appelle Andre (Aaron), Je habite a Cra,lignton, c'est un ville, industrielle dans le nord-est de l'Anglitere, c'est pres de Newcastle et entre Newcastle et le'escosse.

That all means:
My name is Aaron, i live in Cramlington, that is an industrial town in the north east of England, near newcastle. In between Newcastle and scotland.

Dutch, German, French.

I can understand Afrikaans, for the most part.

我的名字是尼克拉斯, 我住在 Lincoln, 內布拉斯加。內布拉斯加是美國的心( 中 ) 。內布拉斯加是之間南達科他和堪薩斯。衣阿華和內布拉斯加近。 我的州產生很多玉米!

My name is Nicholas, I live in Lincoln, Nebraska. Nebraska is America's heart (center). Nebraska is in between South Dakota and Kansas. Iowa and Nebraska are near eachother. My state produces a lot of corn!

Меня зовут Джейми и Я живу в городе Портланды. Нормально, или Я работаю или здесь Я играю. Трудно знать что писать когда вы не знаете что говорить.

Est mihi nomen Jaime et in urbe Portlandis habito. De inveritato, aut laboro aut hic ludo. Quid scribere est difficilis scire quando quid dicere non scitis.

My name's Jaime and I live in the city of Portland. Normally, I'm either working or playing here. It's difficult to know what to write when you don't know what to say.

old english as in angelo-saxion?
iam not fluent( i wish i was) just curious

I'm French mother toungue and Klingon Level VI (like the pope by the way).But my Spanish iz a bit of a nitemare.
Español Français (English)

¿Dondé está el baño? C'est où les chiottes ? (Where is the pee room?)
Tu hija es muy bonita. Elle est mignonne ta fille. (Your daugnter is lookng nice.)
¿Cuanto cuesta esa cosa? C'est combien ce truc ? (How much datz thing?)
Tú eres un pendejo chingado. T'es pas trés aimable. (You're not very kind.)
Tengo una caja roja de las lapices. J'ai un crayon rouge. (I've a red pencil.)
Me gusta tu cabeza y tu estamago. J'aime votre tête et votre estomac. (I like your head and your stomach.)
¿Cinco doláres? ¿Por esa cosa? Cinq dollars? Pour cette merde? (Five bucks? Five dollars for that shit?)
No comas esa. No sabes donde esa ha pasado. Ne mange pas ça. Tu sais pas d'oú ça vient. (Don't eat that. You don't know from where it comes.)
No, guardia. No tengo marihuana. Non Monsieur l'agent. j'ai pas de marijuana. (No Officer, I 've no marijuana.)
Es como matar un toro con una pistola. C'est comme de tuer un taureau avec un pistolet. (It's like to kill a bull with a gun.)
Sólo Nixon podía ir a China. Seul Nixon pouvait aller en Chine. (Only Nixon could go to China.)
No, no, piedo unos huevos. Non, non, j'ai commandé des oeufs. (No, no, I ordered eggs.)
Lavase, y conduce a mi. Lave la, et amène la moi. (Wash her, and bring her to me.)

Меня зовут Джейми и Я живу в городе Портланды. Нормально, или Я работаю или здесь Я играю. Трудно знать что писать когда вы не знаете что говорить.

Bы nem noнимaю pyccкий!

Oh, and... pyки bep! bинmobкa cyma!

(For the record, it is an attempt to say "We don't understand Russian" and "Hands up! The gun, give it here!")

I'm fluent in Romanian. Bring it on...

Oh, I should give a sample? (Sorry, no diacritics).

Daca aveti nevoie de ajutor, sunt oarecum disponibil.




(I'm also good wiyh French, but you've got that covered.)

Luxembourgish (lëtzebuergësch):
"Waat zum Geier soll ëch äerch dann zielen? Am bëschten ëppes, waat nët zevill prëissëg klëngt, ne? Ok, also: d'Maus Ketti sëtzt bei hierem Lach zu Biermeréng am Feld. Wéi schéin denkt sie as d'Liewen dach, wéi gudd as d'op der Welt."

German (deutsch):
Gestern war ein schöner Tag. Die deutsche Basketball Mannschaft spielte gegen Griechenland und verlor. Ich habe selten einen so verzweifelten und leisen Moderator gehört, als bei diesem Spiel. ;-)

French (français):
On n'est pas, on n'est pas, on n'est pas champions du monde... D'accord, j'arrête... je sais que ce n'est pas très gentil, mais que voulez vous que fasse? Je pourrais aussi vous raconter une blague belge: Comment faire pour énerver un belge? Placez-le dans une salle ronde et dites-lui qu'il y a des frites dans le coin...

Spanish (Español):
Buenos dias! Me llamo Carine y hablo un poco español. Podría contaros la historia de Diego, el amigo del verano, que nosotros habemos leido en clase, pero no tengo ganas.

Hey!!!! "zup"!!!! The thing is that I am NATIVE spanish! And why don't add "gallego/galaecian(?)" and bask to the list? And Spanglish :D

¡Venga, chavales! ¡Un saludo!

Ah, je parle un peux français, und ein bisschen Deutsch...

Cree. (Nehiyaw)

Still hasn't been added to the list. It's the Plains Cree 'Y' dialect by the way.

French (français):
On n'est pas, on n'est pas, on n'est pas champions du monde... D'accord, j'arrête... je sais que ce n'est pas très gentil, mais que voulez vous que fasse? Je pourrais aussi vous raconter une blague belge: Comment faire pour énerver un belge? Placez-le dans une salle ronde et dites-lui qu'il y a des frites dans le coin...

plaisanterie drôle :)

Hablo espanol. (but i don't know how to add the damn tilde)

at any rate, check this out... get your name in Latin:

http://www.latin.org/english/name-lookup.html

Cree. (Nehiyaw)

Still hasn't been added to the list. It's the Plains Cree 'Y' dialect by the way.
Well, what's it like?

hey, does anyone know Yiddish? These are the words I know:

nosh - food
nothing else. Schmuck.

Oh, this database idea is good by d way.

Hablo espanol. (but i don't know how to add the damn tilde)

at any rate, check this out... get your name in Latin:

http://www.latin.org/english/name-lookup.html
I was just wondering about one of those.

hey, does anyone know Yiddish? These are the words I know:

nosh - food
nothing else. Schmuck.

Oh, this database idea is good by d way.
Thanks! I know "Go away": Gay cocken affen yam(transliteration)
In English: Go shit in the ocean.

Updated to here.

I am currently learning Esperanto, a language created by a Polish doctor(I think) in the 1880s. It is based on many Indo-European languages. It seems very easy so far. If you know two or more IE languages, specifically European, you will probably be able to take on Esperanto with ease. It is a very simply structured language.
Esperanto: Is sugar in the tea. (Estas sukero en la teo.)
English: There is sugar in the tea.

I can wiggle my way through the ancient Sumerian language (Emegir) in a transliterated form. However I think I should point out that not alot of the language is known by anyone, and I only know what I can find from Historical Linguists.

So, I can at least wiggle my way through that, and some of the Taino language.

I'm a Midwestern American in Finland, so....

Little Swedish - Jag kan prata lite Svenska.
Little Spanish - Hablo un poco Espanol. (tilde, gahhh!)
So-Little-Finnish-I-Shouldn't-Even-List-It - Terve! Mita kuulu? (or something like that)

Is Chinese/Mandarin as hard as everyone says it is? Or is it just the new alphabet that kills you? Interested in learning it, that's all.

For what it's worth, you can add me as a fluent Swedish (Svenska) speaker.

You could put me down for Spanish and German, but if you've got native speakers, don't bother.. However, I can translate Tagalog and Visaya (another Philippine dialect), since I know a good deal myself, and live with many family members who are fluent in both. :)

German and English as a native speaker. A bit of French.

Updated to here. Please don't say you can do a language unless you are positive you can. It's either you can or you can't

Pretty good at French, German and Spanish. Doing A-levels in them... :)