Help I need Language!

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Help! I Can't Language Good!

Do you need some help with another language?
Do you know how to read / write a language that isn't modern English, and want to help your fellow anon?
If so, this is the place for you.

How this works:

• You don't need to be anon when you are offering language aid.
   
• When offering language aid, post a comment saying what language you will helping out with
  • Put the language you want to help out in in the subject line
     
• Only one language per thread please. "I can help out with French and Vietnamese," for example is wrong. French and Vietnamese should go into two separate comments.
   
• If you are requesting spelling, semantic or grammar aid in another language you must remain Anonymous.
   
• You may post a comment requesting language aid, providing you do it in anon mode and there isn't already a thread going on for that language.
   
• If there is already an aid thread for your desired language going, don't start a new comment asking for help unless you posted to that existing thread, and haven't received a response in 7 days
   
• Please stick to the topic at hand (language aide). This isn't the place for chit chat.
   
• If you have had experience with a particularly good online language resource that actually works than feel free to link it here as a reply to the first comment.
  • In the subject line, state what language it is and try to describe what the resource does.
  • Links to resources go in the comment area.
   
• No pimped out fonts or embedded videos are allowed. They will be deleted.
   
• Just a note. If you do have phrases in other languages in your fills, it's only polite to include a translation in English at the bottom of your fill somewhere.

Comments

Re: Chinese, take three

[skelody.livejournal.com]

Hm. For some reason I can't imagine saying, literally, "You are hurting me" in Chinese; the phrasing just feels kind of formal. How about "That hurts" -- "Na yangzi tong"? (In such a situation, the pronunciation would probably be more like "Niangzi tong".)

I want to die -- "Wo yao si." Less rigidly, "Wo jiu sile ba" (impassioned, literally more like "why don't I just die").

I hate you -- "Wo hen ni".

You've got the friends one right :)

I'm hungry -- If talking about food, "Wo e le". Otherwise, I'd go with "Wo hao e" (I'm so hungry), which has more non-food semantic possibility.

I'm always hungry -- "Wo meitian dou e" or "Wo doushi ede".

Those are my things -- "Na shi wode dongxi".

Sir -- ehh, "xiansheng" is more like "mister" but there isn't really another equivalent that implies formality and distance. I'm assuming you're not actually referring to a knight, right?

Miss -- "xiaojie" (which in modern times may have slightly condescending undertones, much like the German "Fraulein").

Young master -- "xiao zhuren"


**Oh, and here's a note -- if a subordinate is addressing someone above them, they might choose to use the formal "nin" instead of "ni" for "you". But nobody does that nowadays unless they're being extra suckuppy, or writing a letter to their relatives :D