skcatch Posted January 5, 2009 at 04:08 PM Report Posted January 5, 2009 at 04:08 PM How are you? I ask this girl to tell me about herself and see wrote this. 我是地地道道的上海人,生在上海,长在上海。。。我喜欢上海!! 我现在是个大学生,今年大三,还有一年就毕业了。。。我不是很喜欢我的专业,因为太难了,我是学产品设计的,我对电脑不太在行,英语也不是很好啦。。。。 很高兴能认识你,和你做朋友 I haven't started to learn chinese yet so I have no idea what it says. If anyone could translate it for me I would really appreciate it. Thanks Quote
hidden12345 Posted January 5, 2009 at 05:37 PM Report Posted January 5, 2009 at 05:37 PM I'll translate somewhat idiomatically and loosely as going word to word, which someone here will inevitably do, will just make her sound stupid. I'm a bona fide Shanghai girl, born and bred. Junior in college, studying product design--not that I particularly like it (it's kind of difficult actually) but whatever. I kind of suck with computers and my English isn't too hot either. Its awesome meeting you..look forward to being friends. Again, this is not a literal translation. Translating literally would just make her sound lame ("I like Shanghai!") and that might not be the case. Quote
skcatch Posted January 6, 2009 at 12:38 AM Author Report Posted January 6, 2009 at 12:38 AM Thanks for your help. I really appreciate it. After I posted this I tried using google translator. I pretty much got what she was trying to say, but like you said it made her sound lame, because it translated literally. So once again thanks for the help. Quote
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