Fluent in another language? Your help is needed! [Archive]

Knippschild

03-04-2006, 18:44

I am in the beginning stages (and when I say beginning, I mean I started today) of a new project for FIRST and Team 357. I can't reveal too many details, but I am going to start recruiting a group of people to help me with the side things.

Basically, I'm going to need translators who can translate phrases/words into their (assigned) language. I'm working on the english right now (the root of where everything is coming from) I'm going to need translators for these languages: French, Spanish, Portugese, Hebrew, Arabic, German, Italian, and Latin. I may have missed some, but that's the general list.

If you can help me out, let me know.. I'll give more information as more is available..

Remember.. you must be fluent!

Thanks in advanced,
Jonathan Knippschild
Team 357
Royal Assault Web Team

Melissa Nute

03-04-2006, 20:20

I speak Latin. This is the first thing I've ever read with someone needing translating into Latin though. It makes me happy.

DanDon

03-04-2006, 20:24

I'm fluent in Hebrew. I could probably help along with some Israeli team members.

VEN

03-04-2006, 20:30

if Russian is ever needed I'm here

Knippschild

03-04-2006, 20:35

Okay guys, send me an IM.. (it's in my profile) and I'll fill you in :)

Appreciate it!

Ashley Weed

03-04-2006, 21:07

I could "assist" in the German if need be.

Gabe

03-04-2006, 21:46

I am fluent in Spanish, so if you need any help with that.

Eugenia Gabrielov

03-04-2006, 21:47

Another Russian here...

Clam

03-04-2006, 21:50

been thru 5 yrs of french... :cool:

Katie Reynolds

03-04-2006, 21:54

German, here

Guy Davidson

03-04-2006, 22:20

I'm a native speaker in both Hebrew and English, and can also do some Spanish, and would love to help. Shoot me a PM if any help ends up being needed.

Pavan Dave

03-04-2006, 23:01

I could help with Gujrati if needed and I bet i can get my parents to help with Hindi if you needed it..

Pavan

aviv

04-04-2006, 10:14

I can help you with hebrew, If you need I can also probably get some spainish help from some team members

my email:
avivgalon@gmail.com

thatphotochick

04-04-2006, 11:27

i've taken 2 years of spanish and in my 2nd year of german, and i'm in latin. definitely could help with latin and german..spanish not so much though if you need it i could help

EnderWiggin

04-04-2006, 19:21

French here (sent you a PM)

lukevanoort

04-04-2006, 19:29

I'm not, but if you urgently need them, my grandmother can speak Dutch (but she's in Canada), my mother used to be able to do Mandarin Chinese, my brother used to be fluent in Spanish (I don't know about now), and my grandfather can speak French and Swahili (as well as a few others), but I don't know if they'll do it...

natis

04-04-2006, 19:43

Fluent Spanish, reading ,writing ,speaking and translating to english!!
I would love to help!!
count on me!!
nataliasoberanes@hotmail.com
nataliasoberanes on aim

Nita

05-04-2006, 15:31

I'm fluent in Korean (I was born in Korea and lived there for the first thirteen years of my life). I still read books in Korean and if there is something I can't do, I can ask for help from my parents, so maybe I can help?
My dad is fluent in Japanese because he lived in Tokyo while he was in college, so he 'might' be able to help with Japanese.
Also, my cousins, uncle, and aunt are fluent in Mandarin(? maybe it was Cantonese), English, Korean, and are now living in Czech Republic. I still keep in contact with them so I can ask for a little help.
I also have relatives in Germany, but they are hard to talk to because they are more fluent in German than anything else.
I am also taking Spanish 4 right now, but I think that other people should be able to help more.

PM/e-mail me if you need any help with these languages... (especially Korean).

David55

05-04-2006, 16:21

A few others here offered already, but I can also help with translating to Hebrew (I took a course in translating and I translated parts of the 2006 FRC manual (http://www.avivrobotics.net/game_manual.html) to Hebrew)

phrontist

05-04-2006, 16:46

I am conversationally fluent in spoken Dutch. I can translate written text from Dutch to English easily, but for English to Dutch I need to use a dictionary, as I can't spell at all. So, if needed, consider me available.

Ben Englert

05-04-2006, 17:36

German here.

aksimhal

06-04-2006, 16:01

I can do Hindi, once I know what I'm doing (5+ years of learning) (just pm me)

Frenchie

06-04-2006, 20:56

Already sent a PM... I can speak french pretty decently (I lived 16 year in France).

François

Sagar Vyas

07-04-2006, 18:39

I'm pretty fluent in Hindi =)

JVGazeley

07-04-2006, 18:43

French, German and Latin but increasingly rusty at all 3... I could understand but not sure if I'm fluent at speaking them anymore.

Nica F.

07-04-2006, 18:45

i can speak/understand tagalog/Filipino. just in case you need it.

Tomasz Bania

07-04-2006, 20:24

I'm VERY fluent in Polish.

supertinni

08-04-2006, 01:46

I speak fluent German if anyone needs some light translation done...

supermosquito69

08-04-2006, 02:15

I'm 100% Colombiano, I lived there from 0-11 years of my life learning spanish, I'm 18. You can definetely count on me!!!

Elyse Holguin

08-04-2006, 02:20

Fluent in German, lived there for a while & one of my majors now at Purdue. Also decent in Spanish although I won't usually admit it- it's my dad's 1st language.

I can do fairly well in Danish too.

Manoel

08-04-2006, 14:12

Count me in for Portuguese. :D

Knippschild

09-04-2006, 01:31

RoboMom

09-04-2006, 09:15

Unfortunately, I posted this thread under false pretenses. Me, being the newbie I am, didn't realize that there are no french(are their french canadian teams?), german, etc speaking teams. I'm only going to need languages of FIRST. Thanks to all those who offered though, it's much appreciated :D

Actually, there are many languages in FIRST, especially for FLL.
From the website:
>>80 Teams from Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, Denmark, Egypt, France, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, India, Israel, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Mexico, Norway, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, The Netherlands, Turkey, United Kingdom, and the United States are invited, as well as coaches, FLL Operational Partners, parents, corporate and local sponsors, international visitors, volunteers and spectators from the Atlanta area. The competition will take place in the Georgia Dome, which seats over 70,000 people.<<

Some of you multi-talented students who are attending the Championship might want to volunteer to help as translators.

Knippschild

09-04-2006, 10:08

Well, this project is designed for FRC, primarily. Perhaps an FLL version will be made eventually.

psych0gambit

09-04-2006, 15:57

Im Chinese so I speak...Chinese, mainly Cantonese so...yup. Im not sure if its a language of FIRST but I'd love to help if needed.

David55

09-04-2006, 18:39

I don't know what exactly what you intend to translate and the importance of it, but I just want to point out that it is really important to find an Arabic translator. Most of the Israeli teams know English at a pretty high level, but the two Arabic teams that attended the Israeli regional (Hoom El Fachem and Tamra) had a hard time understanding Hebrew and English, and it was very hard to communicate with them.

Just my 0.02$

David

Knippschild

12-02-2007, 01:24

This project has been restarted.

This is as much as I can say.

We are building software that we hope that FRC teams will use. In order to expand the amount of people that can enjoy the use of this software.

At the time, we are putting the multi-lingual system on semi-hiatus but will start that part after we get the core of the software up.

Let me know if you are interested :)

Arefin Bari

12-02-2007, 01:27

Fluent in Bengali, Hindi, and Urdu. Let me know if any help is needed.

Knippschild

12-02-2007, 19:43

That's great!

Are any of those spoken by any FRC teams?

Arefin Bari

12-02-2007, 19:56

That's great!

Are any of those spoken by any FRC teams?

I don't know, haven't researched that part. I am sure there are teams out there from India... are they FRC? I don't know. But there gotta be FLL teams from there. Let me know if you find teams from there...

Bengali - Bangladesh
Hindi - India
Urdu - Pakistan

Elpants

12-02-2007, 23:58

I'm fluent in American...

Kyle

13-02-2007, 00:44

A great place to look for help is the local chapters of embassy's or cultural centers for religions or something like that there are people there that would porbly love to help have more things to offer in their national languages

tdlrali

13-02-2007, 07:07

Native German Speaker :D

I also speak Dutch fluently.

team 2244

13-02-2007, 08:03

If you need any help with Portuguese we're here!!
Some of us can help a little bit with French too!!
We're able to help!!
See you!!;)

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Firas184

13-02-2007, 10:23

I am fluent in Arabic, I would be glad to help.

sechii

13-02-2007, 11:24

hey!
i am in team number 1657 from israel, and i could help you translating in hebrew and also if you need in french also i know french fluently i lived ther and also i could help you with words here or there in german (since it is similar to dutch and i also know dutch fluently) and also maybe a word here or there in spanish or italien (i guess that could also count as being close to french). hope to hear from you. visit our website at hamosadrobotics.net see you soon in the states!
team member #1657;)

Dick Linn

13-02-2007, 15:06

I can speak Thai, and I have people who can help with Thai, Laotian and Cambodian languages. I also have a Hmong dictionary, but I'll guarantee it doesn't have the word "robot" in it :)

I've also spent some time in New Jersey and here south of the Mason-Dixon line so, eh, if youse guys need help with regional dialects, ah kin hep y'all out, heah? Ain't nuthin' but a thang.

MrAmazing

13-02-2007, 16:12

I can speak fluent Turkish. I don't know how well I can write it, but I can try.

Dick Linn

13-02-2007, 19:10

I have a buddy here who is from Turkey, and he's an engineer at Philip Morris, so we can probably cover Turkish as well. He's an EE, but works in process automation, so he know how things go round and round. Got that language covered!

SPurekar

13-02-2007, 19:47

I don't know, haven't researched that part. I am sure there are teams out there from India... are they FRC? I don't know. But there gotta be FLL teams from there. Let me know if you find teams from there...

I don't think there are any FIRST teams from India, we looked for them with FLL in September, but if you find any and need any help with Hindi (or Marathi, which is like it) count me in! I'm taking French in school and can write fluently, but speaking not so well, if it's something you need to write, let me know. :)