Translation - Brasiliaanse Portugees-Engels - Obrigado pelas fotos

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Title	Obrigado pelas fotos
Text Submitted by ClÃ©dson Eduardo Vidigal	Source language: Brasiliaanse Portugees OlÃ¡, Hebert, como vai? AquÃ estÃ¡ tudo Ã³timo, graÃ§as a Deus. Estamos trabalhando muito e o tempo estÃ¡ curto para tantas atividades. AgradeÃ§o pelas fotos, ficaram Ã³timas. Gostei muito! PeÃ§o-lhe desculpa pela demora em responder. DÃª um abraÃ§o aos demais colegas. Qualquer dia eu escreverei com mais calma. Se vocÃª tiver o programa SKYPE, vamos combinar para fazermos um bate-papo utilizando a webcam. O meu usuÃ¡rio no Skype Ã© .... SaÃºde e paz.
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Title

Thanks for the pics

Translation

Engels

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lilian canale

Target language: Engels

Hello, Herbert, how are you?
Fortunately, everything is fine here.
We are working very hard and time is short for so many activities.
Thanks for the photos, they're great. I loved them!
I'm sorry I took so long to respond.
Send my regards to the other fellows.
Someday I'll write more calmly.
If you have SKYPE, we can arrange to chat using the webcam. My user name in Skype is...
Health and peace.

Laaste geakkrediteerde redigering deur lilian canale

- 3 May 2011 14:22

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	Author	Message
		2 May 2011 23:44
	carloszfonseca Number of messages: 8	It is translated in a very "literal" manner, there are certain things that an English native person will not be able to really understand, and others that they will find very amusing. I would never, for instance, retain the "thank God" in the second sentence, especially if the message is aimed to a person in the US. The wordings in "time is short..." can be severely improved, maybe with "... and we are lacking time to be able to cope with it". "Photos" is ok, but I believe "Pics" sounds better. "I apologize for the delay...." is also ok, but natives would say "I am sorry that I took so long to answer you". The major mistake in this translation is in "Give a hug to...", which natives would really find very weird, because for them it sounds like you are telling them to go and hug people, and not to tell others that someone has sent them his regards. Use: "Please send my best regards to everybody else, ok?". Next, i would say "I want to send you a proper message really soon". There's more