Born in Kalmar Sweden, moved 20 years ago to Florida.
I speak Swedish about 30 minutes a month (calling home) so that is probably why I still remember it.
I meant actually both, translations and dubbing. I got a couple dubbed to German and some with subtitles. I thought the subtitled ones were called... translations.
In my early days of learning Chinese Mandarin in the USA, I consulted with several Americans who took the class at the university. Every time I asked a question, they couldn't answer. Finally I asked, "what do you know?" to which they replied, "nothing," because they all had dropped the class. Chinese was too difficult they told me and they heard on graduation day, just one native Chinese student and the teacher remained.
Years ago, I programmed one robot to speak 5 languages and followed up with another that could speak 7 (Mandarin included). But neither could speak Swedish. Now that the internet and this Forum made us more aware of this remarkable language, who will be the first to program their robot to speak Swedish?
Being a great supporter of the public domain, here you go for your Swedish and Mandarin language needs. Documents created by the US government are public domain due to the US Constitution.
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Born in Kalmar Sweden, moved 20 years ago to Florida.
I speak Swedish about 30 minutes a month (calling home) so that is probably why I still remember it.
So your parents and relatives are from Sweden?
How old were you when you went to America?
In my early days of learning Chinese Mandarin in the USA, I consulted with several Americans who took the class at the university. Every time I asked a question, they couldn't answer. Finally I asked, "what do you know?" to which they replied, "nothing," because they all had dropped the class. Chinese was too difficult they told me and they heard on graduation day, just one native Chinese student and the teacher remained.
Years ago, I programmed one robot to speak 5 languages and followed up with another that could speak 7 (Mandarin included). But neither could speak Swedish. Now that the internet and this Forum made us more aware of this remarkable language, who will be the first to program their robot to speak Swedish?
Here's a starter I found on the web:
Go: resa,
http://fsi-language-courses.org/Content.php?page=Swedish
http://fsi-language-courses.org/Content.php?page=Finnish
http://fsi-language-courses.org/Content.php?page=Norwegian
http://fsi-language-courses.org/Content.php?page=Chinese
http://fsi-language-courses.org/Content.php?page=Cantonese