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Translation - Brazilian Portuguese-English - Ola não sei falar ingles, so portugues mais mesmo...Current status Translation
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 This translation request is "Meaning only". | Ola não sei falar ingles, so portugues mais mesmo... | | Source language: Brazilian Portuguese
Ola não sei falar ingles, so portugues mais mesmo assim vc quer compartilhar uma amizade comigo.
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| Hello, I can't speak English | | Target language: English
Hello, I can't speak English. Even though I just speak Portuguese...would you like to share a friendship with me? Hugs J. |
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Last validated or edited by lilian canale - 9 February 2009 16:50
Latest messages | | | | | 7 February 2009 17:56 | |  goncinNumber of messages: 3706 | Lilian, That "mais" in the original text must be "mas" instead. So, I think the meaning changes a bit, something like this: "Hello, I can't speak English, just Portuguese. But would you like to share a friendship with me anyway?"  | | | 7 February 2009 18:14 | |  Freya Number of messages: 1910 | I can't speak English, just Portuguese, but even so: would you like to share a friendship with me * to be friends ? | | | 7 February 2009 19:14 | | | Hi Goncin, claro que "mais" é "mas", mas você ha de concordar que o original é bem fraquinho, não?
A tua sugestão é correta também.
The structure: "I can't speak English, just Portuguese" doesn't sound well in English, that's why I changed the structure into what would have been correct in Portuguese:
" Não falo Inglês. Mesmo que eu fale só Português, você quer compartilhar uma amizade comigo?"
Anyway, the meaning doesn't change, I think. | | | 7 February 2009 19:14 | | | | | | 7 February 2009 19:18 | |  Freya Number of messages: 1910 | Yes, the meaning stays the same. It's OK by me.  | | | 9 February 2009 13:29 | | | Hello i don't speak English... (O can't ficou muito pesado parece até que ele é incapaz de falar inglês, ele só não sabe, pode ser que aprenda um dia.) | | | 9 February 2009 13:39 | | | pesado??
It's the most common way in English to say that you don't know how to speak a language or do something like: "I can't swim". It does not mean you are unable to do it or will not do it one day.
I could have used "I don't know how" instead, but that's a matter of choice.
Anyway, thanks for your input.  | | | 9 February 2009 13:40 | | | | | | 9 February 2009 15:31 | |  bgl88Number of messages: 32 | Or "I don't speak [insert language]" is probably most used.
So basically "Hi, I don't speak English, only Portuguese, but do you still want to be friends?" |
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