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MrsMojo 
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Posted: 17 December 2008 at 7:11pm |
My MIL received a card from her late husbands siblings awhile after he passed away unfortunately they're all German and don't speak (or write) English and none of us can read or speak German.
Is there anyone that could translate the card for me?
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arohanui
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Posted: 17 December 2008 at 7:14pm |
DH's friend's wife is German, so if you can't find anyone I can ask her to translate 
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Posted: 17 December 2008 at 7:45pm |
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I have a german at work (its like the united nations at my work) we could probably translate all languages lol
If you like pm me and I can email you tommorrow
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Posted: 17 December 2008 at 7:47pm |
DH's grandmother is Austrian so speaks german. But he's away - and I don't really wanna talk to her lol  But this might work??
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Posted: 17 December 2008 at 7:55pm |
Babelfish is an online translator
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Posted: 18 December 2008 at 7:48am |
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newmum is German?? Although actually, I've not seen her online for aaaaaaaaaages.
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Posted: 18 December 2008 at 8:57am |
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My parents live in the swiss german speaking part of switzerland so I could probably get it translated over night for you.
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Posted: 18 December 2008 at 9:44am |
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Babelfish is a bit iffy - you get pigeon English.
For example my friend got a little outfit for her friend's new baby and it had a phrase written in French and she wanted to be able to tell her what it said.
Babel fish translated it as 'nice as all'
It was actually 'totally cute'
Which doesn't help you at all - excuse the rambling.
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Posted: 18 December 2008 at 10:16am |
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I agree bobbie, I used it all the time when I lived in Europe; it was great to get the gist of what it was saying but certainly not as a direct translation.
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Posted: 18 December 2008 at 5:18pm |
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I've heard google translator is really good, it tries to match on phrases unlike babel fish which goes word for word.
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Posted: 18 December 2008 at 8:33pm |
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I was gonna say Newmum too, you could try PMing her.
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Posted: 19 December 2008 at 4:35pm |
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if you PM it to me, I will email it to her and have it back to you tomorrow or monday.
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Posted: 19 December 2008 at 5:36pm |
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Thank you for your suggestions and offers. Lilfatty got it translated for me today. My MIL was so grateful.
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Can you read/translate German?
