New Members kors Posted September 6, 2015 at 02:40 PM New Members Report Share Posted September 6, 2015 at 02:40 PM Hi, I know this section is for Tattoo / Quick translation help only but I cannot find anywhere else to turn to so I'm posting in this forum. I need to get a translation of the following to communicate to my girlfriend's mother but it's bit hard for me as I cannot speak Chinese at all (I'm learning slowly but it's still very very hard at this age). This is pretty long but I really have nowhere else to turn to so I'm posting here. This transcript is what I want to say - "Hello Mama, how are you? Normally, I do not talk to you because we have language barrier between us but I hope this translation can be good enough to help me out here. Firstly - I'm sorry I still cannot communicate to you in Chinese. Writing to you in this translation, I'm not sure if its accurate so please excuse me but at least, I hope it is the right translation and hope you can understand what I'm saying. Today, I saw XXXX made a phone call to you, talking about our relationship, the status, the meeting of both our parents but as XXXX speaks, I can see she was unhappy. She later told me about the situation, - about our parents meeting. Firstly, I should've been the one to step forward and brief you on everything and tell you in advanced about these kind of things. I'm sorry I'm only communicating to you through XXXX. I will change this from now on. I think it's also better if we communicate face to face (wechat video) than via message (with the help of XXXX). In this case, please excuse me for this as well and I hope to talk to you soon. Initially, I told her that my family were going XXXX in October (my family had few things to resolve in XXXX + my dad haven't met his brother/sister in more than 15 years). So as I thought it'd be easy for you to travel, I planned to make this parents meeting on October (we believed it's a great opportunity as XXXX - XXXX is very close). My dad always wanted to know about XXXX as he knows we are in serious relationship. My parents haven't communicated with XXXX much (as they struggle with English) so it was important for them to know about her parents too! I had originally discussed this with my parents and they had this in mind as well. But as time comes, my parents had few serious issues (financial) in XXXX where they don't have stable place to stay and have to move around frequently (as this is my dad's first time in many years that he is seeing his sister + my mum is also looking forward to seeing her sisters too), which is why I told XXXX about this and I regretfully had to postpone the meeting. It is extremely rude of my family to not consider this meeting in the first place but it is my fault as well that I wasn't very clear with everything. It's really my lack of judgment and planning, nothing to do with XXXX. I will talk about this to my parents and we hope for another arrangement later. In the end, it's my misjudgment that hurt XXXX and family, especially you... mama and papa. It is completely my fault and we discussed. XXXX was also upset at this and I want to make it clear - I really love XXXX, this misjudgment, along with many thinks, I've caused many pains for XXXX who covered up for me to you guys. But please know, I have always been faithful, she is my brightness, someone I really truly love. I will be more responsible for my actions. Sorry about this whole situation. Please do not blame on XXXX, everything was my fault and I hope to fix things right." I know it's pretty long... but I translated this in bing and got this - 妈妈好，你好吗?通常情况下，我说不给你因为我们有我们之间的语言障碍，但我希望此... 首先-我抱歉本人仍不能沟通，你在中国。在这个翻译给你写信，我不确定如果其准确，... 今天，我看见丹尼打了个电话给你，谈谈我们的关系，地位，我们的父母双方的会议，但... 她后来告诉我，对这种情况 — — 谈我们的家长会。首先，我应该已经一步和谈到一切，告诉你在先进的关于这类事情。我很... (微信视频) 比通过消息。在这种情况下，请原谅我这一样好，我希望很快就和你谈谈。 最初，我告诉她，我的家人将会在 10 月份韩国 (我家有几件事要解决在韩国 + 我爸爸还没见过他的兄妹在 15 年以上)。所以好像是很容易为你去旅行，我打算使这个家长会日 (我们认为这是一个伟大的机会，作为中国-韩国是非常接近)。我爸爸总是想知道丹尼，... (因为他们难以应付英语) 所以重要的是他们太了解她的父母!我曾有最初的讨论和我的父母，他们曾在心中也。 但随着时间的到来，我的父母有几个严重问题 (金融) 在韩国不要有稳定的住宿地点，不得不频繁地移动 (因为这是我爸爸的第一次在许多年中，他看到他的妹妹 + 我的妈妈也期待见到她的姐妹们太)，这是为什么告知这丹和遗憾的是，后来不得不推迟会... 最后，它是我伤害了丹和家庭，尤其是你的误判妈妈和爸爸。它完全是我的错，我们讨论... 我将为我的行为更负责。抱歉这种局面。请别责怪丹，一切都是我的错，我希望右修东西... I'm not asking anyone to translate this long passage as it's so much work but if anyone can check the bing translation and see whether it makes little bit of sense (at least in the right direction) and if you can correct a little bit so it makes sense, that'd be so much appreciated! I really have nowhere else to turn to and I really need help on this. If anyone can, please please help me out. Thanks in advance Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Demonic_Duck Posted September 7, 2015 at 06:26 AM Report Share Posted September 7, 2015 at 06:26 AM It's typical quality for machine translation between English and Chinese, i.e. not great. Google translate might do a better job. Also, I'm not sure why you've cut out half of each paragraph in what you've copy-pasted, but the translation you've posted is not anonymised like your English version. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lu Posted September 7, 2015 at 09:52 AM Report Share Posted September 7, 2015 at 09:52 AM Any chance you can ask your partner to help with this? I assume she speaks Chinese well and is also familiar with the situation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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