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A question about past tense and past perfect tense

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 14:29:37 GMT

Languages and Translation : A question about past tense and past perfect tense

1. __________ by the beauty of nature, the girl from London dicided to spend another 2 days on the farm.
A. Attracted
B. Having been atracted

2. __________ of danger in the street at night, she had to go home with a friend following her.
A. Warned
B. Having been warned

I'm really confused. I thought both of the 2 tenses is ok but just expressing different ideas. "Having been done" emphasizes the order of the 2 actions while "Done" doesn't. I thought I can express either of the 2 ideas, but it seems that I can't.

Can any friends whose mother tongue is English help me? ...

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Spanish: ser vs. estar

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 00:21:14 GMT

Languages and Translation : Spanish: ser vs. estar

I was wondering if someone could help me out and correct me if I'm wrong.

Estar is primarily used for location and emotions and ser is used for description, things that occur, and possession.

So, what am I missing here? And are there any cases in which it doesn't matter which one you use? Also, should dates and times be used with ser (like when you say un dia)?

It'd be great if someone could give me some tips on this.

Thanks for any help.

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Where are you from ?

Mon, 22 Sep 2008 22:20:09 GMT

Languages and Translation : Where are you from ?

Are most of Frihost memeber Americans ? I am from China .

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Why not Chinese?

Mon, 22 Sep 2008 08:51:37 GMT

Languages and Translation : Why not Chinese?

I know few pepole like to study chinese language in fact, in there oppinon, chinese just like a "Mark" in cultrue and a "Market" in ecnomy .

While, there are a few softs for those pepole who like to study chinese for the purpose of tradtion or cultrue comunications, you can find it by yourself or ask me.

But I think It is really harder to study chinese without a primary teacher.

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English-French-German towards Dutch (Nederlands)

Sun, 21 Sep 2008 11:35:11 GMT

Languages and Translation : English-French-German towards Dutch (Nederlands)

I can help you with translations from English, French or German text towards Dutch (Nederlands).

kind regards
Ciboss

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Thai Translate Software

Sun, 21 Sep 2008 11:32:44 GMT

Languages and Translation : Thai Translate Software

I need a software to translate between English and Thai Thai and English.

Do you have any idea ...

Thank you very much...

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Germany/English translation help

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 20:48:36 GMT

Languages and Translation : Germany/English translation help

I was playing one game when admin say me and with my friend:
(ADMIN) |Ŋмĝ|►ƘᴀҚȃ◄: kein gegenseitiges aufpushen der levels!!! And then we get kicked and banned at server. So what this "kein gegenseitiges aufpushen der levels!!!" mean in english?

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I need some translation...

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 15:45:57 GMT

Languages and Translation : I need some translation...

Can You turn into your language this sentence :

"Happy mother's day"

It's said in french ,

"Bonne fête des mères"

I need this translation to make a big card for my mum for the mother day inall language

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Chinese names

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 05:23:11 GMT

Languages and Translation : Chinese names

In an online game I plan to do I want to randomly generate names from different countries. It looks like the Chinese names are a bit different from others. If the name is written with Chinese characters (eg. 圣雄甘地) it looks like it's only one name with no first and last name or is there no space between the Chinese signs at all?

What are the parts of a Chinese name? is there a first name and a last name or family name,personal name or something else?

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Chinese character lookup system

Thu, 11 Sep 2008 16:17:33 GMT

Languages and Translation : Chinese character lookup system

Found this online
http://www.chinese-tools.com/tools/mouse.html

Its pretty cool. B/C the dictionary just takes too long.
It works pretty well, much better than I had thought.

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Some adresses to learn turkish

Mon, 08 Sep 2008 11:54:35 GMT

Languages and Translation : Some adresses to learn turkish

Some adresses to learn turkish;

http://www.practicalturkish.com/

http://www.turkishclass.com/

http://www.teachyourselfturkish.com/

http://www.mylanguageexchange.com/Learn/Turkish.asp

http://www.mylanguageexchange.com/Learn/Turkish.asp

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How do you say it in your language?

Sun, 07 Sep 2008 10:55:01 GMT

Languages and Translation : How do you say it in your language?

Well 14th Feb is nearby. How would you say 'I Love You' in your language? Also kindly mention the language in which you are writing it. Do write it in as many languages you know!

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arabic

Sun, 07 Sep 2008 01:33:28 GMT

Languages and Translation : arabic

i can help in arabic Translation

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japanese poetry

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 08:01:08 GMT

Languages and Translation : japanese poetry

This is a poem comes from 竹取物语. any one can translate it? I wonder what that means.

海山のみちにこゝろをつくしはてみいしの鉢のなみだながれき
おく露のひかりをだにもやどさまし小倉山にてなにもとめけむ
しら山にあへば光のうするかとはちを棄てゝもたのまるゝかな
いたづらに身はなしつとも玉の枝を手をらでさらに歸らざらまし
呉竹のよゝのたけとり野山にもさやはわびしきふしをのみ見し
わが袂けふかわければわびしさのちくさのかずも忘られぬべし
かぎりなきおもひに燒けぬかはごろも袂かわきて今日こそはきめ
なごりなくもゆと知りせばかは衣おもひの外におきて見ましを
年を經て浪立ちよらぬすみのえのまつかひなしと聞くはまことか
かひはかくありけるものをわびはて死ぬる命をすくひやはせぬ
かへるさのみゆき物うくおもほえてそむきてとまるかぐや姫ゆゑ
葎はふ下にもとしは經ぬる身のなにかはたまのうてなをもみむ

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Is there any malaysian people?

Mon, 01 Sep 2008 19:13:53 GMT

Languages and Translation : Is there any malaysian people?

Hi
Is there any malaysian people who can translate english to malaysian?

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Malay-English Translator

Mon, 01 Sep 2008 19:11:57 GMT

Languages and Translation : Malay-English Translator

I am interested in Malay-English Translation recently due to my elective course. Does anyone here know any good translator for Malay-English? Indonesian-English will do.

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TurÝng English - Türkish , Türkish - English Translation

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 23:22:11 GMT

Languages and Translation : TurÝng English - Türkish , Türkish - English Translation

Turing translation ingilizceden türkçeye türkçeden ingilizceye çeviri yapabilen ücretsiz bir uygulamadir..basit cümleleri paragraflari çevirme özelligine sahiptir..

http://www.ingtur.org/turing.zip

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good polish to eng translator

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 05:06:40 GMT

Languages and Translation : good polish to eng translator

Does anyone know of a good translator that doesn't require grammatical perfection of the polish words? So many special characters in the polish language, and the text I need translated has none, just basic letters. Thanks.

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[official] Your online translation site.

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 04:49:21 GMT

Languages and Translation : [official] Your online translation site.

Please post your favourite translation tool in this topic.
Made sticky.

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Translate to Chinese restaurant bill

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 10:14:21 GMT

Languages and Translation : Translate to Chinese restaurant bill

Hi, I was at a Chinese hot pot the other day with four friends -- I wanted to tell the waitress to please split the bill four ways. How would I translate these?

1. Please split the bill four ways.
2. Please split the bill equally on these four credit cards.

Either traditional/simplified characters are fine.

Thanks!

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Russian & Romanian

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 21:13:10 GMT

Languages and Translation : Russian & Romanian

Some one know one of this languages, iolki palki, mama voastra ce va are..

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Please help with translations (credits are given)

Sat, 23 Aug 2008 06:39:00 GMT

Languages and Translation : Please help with translations (credits are given)

Hello.

I am developing a PMS for Joomla. A free CMS (dynamic website).
I would like to include as much translations possible. I have only one problem;
I only speak (and thus write) dutch and english.
Then, of course, I can not write more translations. And therefore I need your help!

What does translation in this case mean?
- You become a translator of the JAM project. In credit we put your name (and more info) in the script and on the website.
- You translate the languages files (Time: 30min to 1 hour)
- You translate the future language strings (Time: 30sec)
-

As a Frihoster you will receive $Frih

Translators

I already have translators for the following languages:
- English
- Dutch
- German
- French

If your language is not in the above list, we are looking for

YOU

!

If you are willing to help, please contact me by joomladev.org Info or directly: info [at] joomladev [dot] org.

Thanks you in advance ,
Cas de Vroom

Last updated at 19 Jan 08

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Translate to almost all languages

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 12:49:25 GMT

Languages and Translation : Translate to almost all languages

Hi guys.
I've a way that when you browse internet you don't need any program to translate.

just do the follwoig:

Step1

- download Internet Explorer 8. You can find it here (www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/ie/ie8/default.mspx).

Step2

- Just browse when you find a new word just highlight it the an activity botton will appear.

Step3

- when you click it a pop up appears with some activities one of them is translation.

Step4

- the default translation is appeared but you can change it easly by select your language.

I did it in steps to be clear but in reality

it did not take a seconed to translate any word

.
IE8 is amaizing (It still beta ).

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what is the longest word in your language?

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 04:31:12 GMT

Languages and Translation : what is the longest word in your language?

what is the longest word in your language?

in turkish:
"muvaffakiyetsizleştiricileştiriveremeyebileceklerimizdenmişsinizcesine "

70 letters.(it is very difficult for me to traslate to english.)

i think record belongs to swedish.

"nordöstersjökustartilleriflygdiv class="detail"ingssimulatoranlag-
gningsmaterielunderhallsuppföljningssystemdiskussion-
sinlaggsförberedelsearbaten" 130 letters

what is the meaning of this i don't know.

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translate romanian

Sat, 09 Aug 2008 14:37:20 GMT

Languages and Translation : translate romanian

i will translate english to romanian

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