"I speak..."

Latvian translation: Es runāju latviski

18:47 Feb 1, 2005

English to Latvian translations [Non-PRO]
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English term or phrase: "I speak..."

Dear Colleagues:

First I'd like to say on behalf of Ohio Criminal Justice Services, Summit County Ohio Sheriff's Office, City of Lorain (Ohio) Police Department and NAJIT, we thank you greatly for your help and support with the translation of "I Speak ____" for the language communications booklet. I am still in need of your help in a few more languages.

I need "I Speak" translated and is listed by order of frequently encountered languages for Ohio are: Farsi, Hmong, Poshto, Korean, Thai, Swahili, Gujarati, Ukrainian. Other languages not as frequently encountered: Armenian, Cambodian, Bengali, Chezc, Chamorro, Hungarian, Llocano, Tagalog, Tongan, Yiddish, Mandingo, Bamara, and any other languages you can think of that I have left out.

We are trying to make this communications booklet as simple as possible and therefore we just need the three words "I Speak ____". The census and other language identification booklets have longer statements such as "If you speak blah, blah please check this box." We cannot use those. It gets a little too complicated. I also apologize in advance if I have misspelled any of the languages.

The languages we already have the translation for are: Spanish, Japanese, Creole, Chinese (Mandarin), Chinese (Cantonese), Turkish, Dutch, Italian, French, German, Arabic, Romanian, Laotian, Mon, Portuguese, Russian, Catalan, Serbian, Slovak, Hebrew, Burmese, Somali, Vietnamese, Greek, Polish, Hindi, Urdu, Hindko, Pothari, and Saraiki.

Claudia Samulowitz KudoZ activity Questions: 53 (4 open) (20 without valid answers) Answers: 3 United States
Local time: 16:41

Latvian translation:Es runāju latviski

Explanation:
(UTF-8 encoding) Latvian is not mentioned in the list but it is very likely that some Latvians are living in Ohio.

In Ukrainian it will be: Я говорю українською

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Kaspars Melkis
United Kingdom
Local time: 21:41

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Thank you so very much:)
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Es runāju latviski

Renu

Es runāju latviski

Kaspars Melkis

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I speak Latvian

Es runāju latviski

Explanation:
(UTF-8 encoding) Latvian is not mentioned in the list but it is very likely that some Latvians are living in Ohio.

In Ukrainian it will be: Я говорю українською

Kaspars Melkis
United Kingdom
Local time: 21:41
Native speaker of: Latvian

Grading comment

Thank you so very much:)

1 hr confidence:

peer agreement (net): +2

I speak Latvian Es runāju latviski

Explanation:
This would be the phrase for Latvian language speakers.
For accurate spelling, letter "a" in "runāju" must have a lenghtening mark or a macron.

Renu
Local time: 23:41
Native speaker of:

Latvian

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