How do you translate written foreign languages to English?
When you’re trying to learn to read and write a foreign language that doesn’t use the same alphabet that we do, how do you translate the symbols into English words. For example if $%*# is translated over in that language to the word "belian", how do I then know what "belian" means in English? Also how do I take an English word like "Duck" and translate it over into another language so that they woudl be able to understand it. I’m actually trying to learn to read and write Amharic. I just don’t have the fonts to show any examples in here.
Amharic is actually quite infamous as a very difficult language to read. I would recommend learning to read it as best you can (I can provide you with a good chart that I’ve used for Amharic transliterations in the past: http://www.omniglot.com/writing/ethiopic.htm), because finding an extensive dictionary that includes Latin transliterations of Amharic words will be very difficult.
Now, do you understand how Ge’ez script works? Each letter stands for a combination of a consonant and a vowel, so, for example, one letter might be transliterated as two or three when going from Ge’ez to English, whereas a single English letter could not be transliterated into Ge’ez, only combinations of letters that are compatible with the Amharic form of Ge’ez script.
January 13th, 2010 at 9:10 am
Go to an online translator. One place that Iove to use is "www.dictionary.com" and then you can click on "Translator" on the top of the page. From there all you have to do is put it in English and then say what language you want ti to translate to. Simple =D Good Luck!
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January 13th, 2010 at 9:51 am
Amharic is actually quite infamous as a very difficult language to read. I would recommend learning to read it as best you can (I can provide you with a good chart that I’ve used for Amharic transliterations in the past: http://www.omniglot.com/writing/ethiopic.htm), because finding an extensive dictionary that includes Latin transliterations of Amharic words will be very difficult.
Now, do you understand how Ge’ez script works? Each letter stands for a combination of a consonant and a vowel, so, for example, one letter might be transliterated as two or three when going from Ge’ez to English, whereas a single English letter could not be transliterated into Ge’ez, only combinations of letters that are compatible with the Amharic form of Ge’ez script.
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