Teach me your language I teach you mine

[--Princesa--]

Now, this one is hard. Pasha we need your full capacity here.I wanted to translate this into perfect Spanish and Italian. French I can manage myself quite well.

Here is it,lovely paragraph.

The man who said "I'd rather be lucky than good" saw deeply into life. People are often afraid to realize how much of an impact luck plays. There are moments in a tennis match where the ball hits the top of the net, and for a split second, remains in mid-air. With a litte luck, the ball goes over, and you win. Or maybe it doesn't, and you lose.

El hombre que dijo "preferiría ser afortunado (o tener suerte) que ser brillante (bueno)" vio profundamente la vida. La gente frecuentemente tiene miedo de darse cuenta de cuánta importancia tiene un golpe de suerte en nuestra vida. Hay momentos en un partido de tenis en los que la pelota golpea el borde superior de la red, y por un segundo, permanece en el aire. Con un poco de suerte, la pelota pasa al otro campo y tú ganas. O quizá no pasa, y entonces pierdes.

 

[evisu donna]

Does anyone know how to pronounce the name João in Portuguese?

 

[*Eylul*]

Wow...what a great thread for a language admirer like me!!!

I don't think u would need but...if u want to know smth in Turkish,ask me

 

[pazzaperleborse]

Pash or any other Italians ~ please translate fiorelli for me . . . I remember a film entitled such, and in the synopsis, it said that it meant wildflower . . . though despite some research that I've been doing I can't seem to come up with anything to support that . . . any help would be great . . . grazie!!!!

 

[Royal-Galliano]

THE FRENCH! Attencion!

I need "THE BABY OF BAGNOLET"... stupid huh?

 

[Pashen'ka]

Pash or any other Italians ~ please translate fiorelli for me . . . I remember a film entitled such, and in the synopsis, it said that it meant wildflower . . . though despite some research that I've been doing I can't seem to come up with anything to support that . . . any help would be great . . . grazie!!!!

Though I've always heard the form "fiorellini" rather than "fiorelli", they both mean "small flowers / lil' flowers"

 

[Pashen'ka]

THE FRENCH! Attencion!

I need "THE BABY OF BAGNOLET"... stupid huh?

"L'enfant de Bagnolet"

 

[Royal-Galliano]

^Mille grazie!

 

[stersita]

yeah but pash, enfant means baby as in, 2 year old human, but does it mean baby as in groovy baby too?

 

[Royal-Galliano]

Groovy yeah!

 

[stersita]

hey hey i was being serious do you know pash? because groovy enfant just sounds.. strange

 

[Pashen'ka]

yeah but pash, enfant means baby as in, 2 year old human, but does it mean baby as in groovy baby too?

Nope...

I'd rather use words like "mon pote" or "tézigue" when talking to men, and "chérie" or "ma belle" when talking to women...

 

[stersita]

thank you mon pote i like chérie it sounds cool

 

[Pashen'ka]

^ Btw, a funny detail...as weird as it may sound, a typical nowadays "french" phrase is "cool, man!"...

 

[stersita]

americanizing jk, it's all cool man B)

 

[fab_fifties_fille]

Oh dearest sterista I need what I think might be a spanish word translating....it sounds very much like 'obique' if I was to spell it the 'english' way...but I'm not sure of the actual spanish spelling...if it is infact spanish.

 

[z.cesca]

Does anyone know how to pronounce the name João in Portuguese?

That's a hard one, since the ão part is very nasal. Online it says it should be zhwou. hehehe Jo-aun maybe? Make the aun nasal and the Jo is soft.

 

[stersita]

hmm ive never heard that word.. maybe its some south american thing?

 

[fab_fifties_fille]

perhaps...I'll ask what it means next time and where it's from...thanks anyways

 

[evisu donna]

That's a hard one, since the ão part is very nasal. Online it says it should be zhwou. hehehe Jo-aun maybe? Make the aun nasal and the Jo is soft.

Thanks