Oral Broken Translation Game? (DONE!)

[Aleco]

Hi everyone! I had this idea that maybe this game could work orally as well.

Upload MP3 here
(Upload and choose the link for forums and "link to this page")

The administrator of the game finds a text, which *he then reads out loud into an MP3 file SLOWLY and CLEARLY. Then *he sends it to the next person in the chain. This person then tries to write down what he heard, translates the next into another language (written), which *he then reads out loud, and sends to the next translator (both written texts goes to me, the oral text is uploaded to Upload MP3 where the link is sent to both me and the next participant). The last person in the chain translates the text into English and sends it back to me for me to write down. Alternatively, the last person in the chain does not read anything out loud at all - only translates into English. Oh, and of course the golden rule of maximum five days per person counts here as well.

Understood? I'm just trying to see how many people perhaps would like to try this At the end, I post all written texts. and give the links of all the sound files.

The chain:
English (Aleco) ~ German (Trapy) ~ Esperanto (linguaholic) ~ Italian (ILuvEire) ~ Italian (Neqitan) ~ English (Dminor) ~ Irish (Supreemio) ~ French (Eoghan) ~ Spanish (bryonj2255) ~ German (loqu) ~ German (Twinkle) ~ Norwegian (Sean of the Dead) ~ Mandarin (Danial) ~ French (Neqitan) ~ Romanian (AndreiB) ~ English (Balaur)

In the hands of: Sean of the Dead (9/13)
Had the text since: June 3nd

[Trapy]

lol, I would give it a try, depending on difficulty level = what languages

[Dminor]

That would be a lot harder! For me listening skills are the toughest part of learning a language. Nice idea though.

Dat soe in protte dreger wêze! Foar my is harkje it dreechste diel fan it learen fan in taal. Lykwols in moai idee.

[Aleco]

That would be a lot harder! For me listening skills are the toughest part of learning a language. Nice idea though.

Dat soe in protte dreger wêze! Foar my is harkje it dreechste diel fan it learen fan in taal. Lykwols in moai idee.

Exactly That's why I thought it could be a really great game to practise languages orally Of course, we would have to do languages we know we pronounce understandably.

We have at least three now including me. If we get above 5-6, perhaps we could give it a go? I don't expect a great response, but there should be some out there

[linguaholic]

I don't know where I can upload mp3's, but if somebody tells me, I'm in!

[loqu]

Hey, I'm in!!! Though I can be really awful at this.

From and to:
English and German (provided it's spoken slow and clear)
Spanish, Catalan

Only from:
Galician, lol

@linguaholic: putfile or zshare are OK

[Aleco]

I posted a link to what I use
Great loqu!

Oh, and of course, I won't choose a text with many difficult words since this is oral So don't worry about that. However, the text shouldn't be read aloud by you in your own native language. This way, it actually helps you, when we correct major errors, if there are any, after the game's finished.

[Twinkle]

I'm so in

[Aleco]

I'm so in

Sjovt! Da behøver jeg bare å vide, hvilke sprog du kan oversætte til og fra

[Dminor]

Let's see...

I can understand Dutch, Afrikaans, Frisian, English, German, Italian, Latin, ancient Greek (the latter two if properly pronounced ), maybe Esperanto should work as well... French is always hard to understand. Spanish would be tough as well.

I can produce Dutch, Afrikaans, Frisian, English, German, Swedish, Italian, French, Spanish, Latin, ancient Greek, modern Greek and Esperanto.

Ris sjen...

Ik kin Hollânsk, Afrikaansk, Frysk, Ingelsk, Dútsk, Italiaansk, Latynsk, âld-Gryksk (de lêste twa as sy goed útsprutsen wurde ) ferstean, faaks moat Esperanto ek noch wol gean... Frânsk is altiten dreech om te ferstean. Spaansk soe ek dreech wêze.

Ik kin Hollânsk, Afrikaansk, Frysk, Ingelsk, Dútsk, Sweedsk, Italiaansk, Frânsk, Spaansk, Latynsk, âld-Gryksk, nij-Gryksk en Esperanto produsearje.

[linguaholic]

Okay, so I hope/think I could do

from:
English
Dutch
Esperanto
German (native)

into:
English
Dutch
Esperanto

and if it is really really necessary you can beat me to doing into French, but I think I'd prefer not to.

Oh my, I'm already scared.

[Danial]

Haha,

I'm so in well, I could try but I'm afraid that my non-native accent would screw the rest up -.-

From/To:

English (native)
Malay (native)
French (almost fluent)
German (conversational)
Chinese Mandarin (conversational)
Norwegian (conversational)
(I won't really have much problems doing the follow 6 languages above)
Dutch (basic, would love to try)
Italian (basic, but I could try)
Spanish (basic, but I can try too...I really don't like Spanish :S)

[Sean of the Dead]

Oh heck yeah I'm in!

To/From:
English
German
Norwegian

I don't have much to offer, but this would be really fun.

[Trapy]

Ok, here's my list:

To and From
English (native)
French
Spanish
German

[Bryon]

I don't have much to offer either, but I'd still like to participate if I can.

To/From:
English
French
Spanish

[Emandir]

I'm not in: I don't do oral stuff!

[linguaholic]

I see you'll organize the anal translation game ... I'm curious.

[Aleco]

I'm not in: I don't do oral stuff!

I see you'll organize the anal translation game ... I'm curious.

Laughing my butt off Oh, so oral it is!

Well, I'll start and mix the chains tomorrow evening I guess. I'll just see if some more people will join

[Danial]

HAHAHA, I laughed my ass off when I read that. Genius

[Sean of the Dead]

I see you'll organize the anal translation game ... I'm curious.

I don't see how that would work very well.