Hi, I'd like some input from native French & German speakers here. It's for some product descriptions for an online shop. The site I use lets you add translations for any other languages you speak. Most of the other items in the shop are zines in English or art prints, so there's either no point having a blurb in other languages or it's simple ( Read more... )

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One of my friends is an artist, and she's preparing something for an exhibition of science-related art. Her pieces are about the idea of using things like glass-blowing, chemical reactions etc to permanently record breath, something that's normally entirely fleeting. She's been trying to think of a title, but is stumped. All the english phrases she ( Read more... )

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So, I'm going to be teaching myself Romanian in the future, because a.) it's a beautiful and intriguing language with a rich and interesting history and b.) I have a story set in Romania using (naturally) some Romanian characters and it's nowhere near close enough to the Spanish I've studied previously for me to "get by" in some of my resources ( Read more... )

Okay, I'm having fun with a fantasy story of mine. So much fun I started getting ahead of myself and had to stop to think about this. XD This isn't a terribly urgent question or set of questions rather, but it's been bugging me for a while and I'm kind of overwhelmed by the possibilities now that it finally hit me what a massive undertaking I was ( Read more... )

I'm thinking of learning Spanish, but I'm not sure how well that would go given the level of proficiency I have in other languages. I'm an Italian major who has been studying German, too, for years. Roughly how difficult would it be to add an intensive beginning Spanish course? Would it be easy to get it mixed up with Italian? I know I managed to ( Read more... )

I have encountered an English translation of a Russian novel, and was appalled at how unnatural the translated version sounded to me. Because English is my second language, I do not trust myself that much, hence this post. I'd like your opinion of the following paragraph - please tell me I'm too picky or just do not know what good English sounds ( Read more... )

And I guess I should start off by making clear that I expressly do not mean that in a patronising and/or vaguely creepy sense (:D) but rather that it is a somewhat habitual greeting I seem to have fallen into the use of, despite usually being the youngest in most situations in which I find myself. Whoops, I think I lost the grammatical direction of ( Read more... )

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