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tanadashoes - 02 Mar 2007 13:39 GMT

If one were to yell "INS" on the motel grounds, most of the staff
would be gone in a heart beat. I made a joke about green cards, and
you could have heard a pin drop. Ok, to get past the cliches, I need
the Spanish for the following:

bathmat, extra towels, this smells like cigarette smoke and I don't
want it in my room, this is for you, thank you for doing such a good
cleaning job in our room, and any other phrases that might make the
next week go a little better.

Thanks,

Pam S.

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Victor Martinez - 02 Mar 2007 15:57 GMT

> bathmat,

Tapete de ba~o (pronounce bagno)

> extra towels,

Mas toallas, por favor

> this smells like cigarette smoke and

Esto huele a cigarros (hard r)

> I don't want it in my room,

No lo quiero en mi cuarto

> this is for you,

Esto es para usted

> thank you for doing such a good cleaning job in our room,

Muchas gracias, el cuarto esta muy limpio

> and any other phrases that might make the next week go a little better.

Gracias (thank you), por favor (please) will go a long way.

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Zzzzzzzz - 02 Mar 2007 16:20 GMT

>> and any other phrases that might make the next week go a little
>> better.
>
> Gracias (thank you), por favor (please) will go a long way.

This is prolly not what you meant:

Cervezas, por favor.
Went a long way for me :)

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Lesley - 06 Mar 2007 12:42 GMT

>Cervezas, por favor.
>Went a long way for me :)

Only bit of Spanish I know!

Then again I am fairly hopeless at languages. In our family the "learn a
foreign language" genes were distributed in an unbalanced fashion. The best I
can do is make myself half understood in very basic schoolgirl French and
apart from my younger brother I'm the bilingual one

But my youngest brother is fluent in French, German, Italian, Spanish and
Russian (Read "War and Peace " in the original Russian as "it loses a lot in
translation"when he was 14)- that's fluent as in hard to tell he's not a
native speaker.

He is fluent as in gets by very well in Serbo-Croat, Portugese and Kanji

And can make himself understood quite easily to Mandarin and Swahili

The only language examination he ever failed was in English!

Lesley

Slave of the Faabulous Furballs

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Christine K. - 06 Mar 2007 12:55 GMT

Lesley via CatKB.com kirjoitti:

>> Cervezas, por favor.
>> Went a long way for me :)
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>
> Slave of the Faabulous Furballs

Wow! Your brother has quite a selection of languages!! I just hope he
gets to use them all regularly so he doesn't forget them. And having a
Croatian friend, I know that the language Serbo-Croat isn't actually
around much, but both Serbs and Croats and a bunch of other nearby
nationalities tend to understand it too. Serbo-Croat was the language of
the united Yugoslavia, but now that they're all split up, they use their
own dialects that vary slightly from that.

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jXwXeXrXmXoXnXt@sonic.net - 06 Mar 2007 18:32 GMT

> But my youngest brother is fluent in French, German, Italian, Spanish and
> Russian (Read "War and Peace " in the original Russian as "it loses a lot in
> translation"when he was 14)- that's fluent as in hard to tell he's not a
> native speaker.

> He is fluent as in gets by very well in Serbo-Croat, Portugese and Kanji

> And can make himself understood quite easily to Mandarin and Swahili

Wow, that's really impressive! Is he a linguist? Are languages his
specialty? He obviously has a gift for it.

Joyce

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Lesley - 07 Mar 2007 13:32 GMT

>Wow, that's really impressive! Is he a linguist? Are languages his
>specialty? He obviously has a gift for it.

He's usually a Future's dealer (This year he's reading for an MA in Financial
Management- it wasn't just the "learn a foreign language" genes that got
unevenly distributed) making unheard of amounts of cash- he once moaned to
me that the smaller of his bonuses for that year was a "mere" £40,000. Still
it was being so fluent in French that got him his first job in the city, they
needed someone who could talk to the staff on the French stock exchange

Lesley

Slave of the Fabulous Furballs

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EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque) - 02 Mar 2007 19:24 GMT

>> bathmat,
>
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>
> Gracias (thank you), por favor (please) will go a long way.

How about "donde esta el cuarto de damas (hombres), por
favor"? (Where is the bathroom, please?). It's a phrase
I've found invaluable when traveling abroad! (Although in
most of Europe they call them what they are - toilets - the
pronunciation differs, depending upon the language of the
country.)

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Joy - 02 Mar 2007 21:04 GMT

> How about "donde esta el cuarto de damas (hombres), por favor"? (Where is
> the bathroom, please?). It's a phrase I've found invaluable when
> traveling abroad! (Although in most of Europe they call them what they
> are - toilets - the pronunciation differs, depending upon the language of
> the country.)

Yes, I found that , "twa- let?" works in Germany Austria, Holland, Italy,
France and Switzerland.

Joy

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Pat - 05 Mar 2007 16:39 GMT

| > How about "donde esta el cuarto de damas (hombres), por favor"? (Where is
| > the bathroom, please?). It's a phrase I've found invaluable when
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| Yes, I found that , "twa- let?" works in Germany Austria, Holland, Italy,
| France and Switzerland.

I studied a bit of Japanese decades ago when I had several close Japanese
friends. Then I went to Japan with my ex in '97. I remembered having heard
that the word for bathroom is benjo - one friend had said it means something
like "convenient place".

So one day with one of our gracious hosts I decided to show off a bit and
asked, "Benjo-wa, doko des'ka?" She started laughing, I asked why, she
turned red and whispered "You just asked me 'Where's the sh.t hole!'"

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