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Any native Swedish speakers out there? Please?

I am in real need of a short email consultation with a native speaker of Swedish. I've got six or so sentences I need to have translated into colloquial, every day Swedish.

Anybody?

My eternal thanks, and a mention in the author's note as a (very small) reward.

Posted by on September 21, 2006 12:55 PM | Permalink

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1. Wilma spoke up on September 21, 2006 1:05 PM and said:

Rosina,
Maybe this will help? http://www.systranbox.com/systran/box

2. rachel spoke up on September 21, 2006 2:14 PM and said:

Sorry Wilma, but I don't agree. I tried that website, and I wouldn't rely on it. I wrote some things in french and they translated everything word for word. It didn't know "slang". Sorry Rosina, not so helpful huh...

3. Deborah spoke up on September 21, 2006 6:04 PM and said:

I’m a journalist working in New Zealand and my workmate Ann is a fluent speaker of Swedish, having been born and raise in Norway. I have asked her and she would be more than happy to help you with whatever you need. Just email me at [email protected] with your questions and she can email you back from there.

Hope that helps,
Deborah

4. Rosina Lippi spoke up on September 21, 2006 6:22 PM and said:

Thanks, Deborah. email on its way as soon as I get organized.

5. Helena spoke up on September 22, 2006 8:39 AM and said:

I'm Swedish (living in Austria at the moment, but was just in Stockholm to pick up the latest annoying slang*). In case you need a native speaker, I'm willing to help.

* Not really why I was there, of course--but even so I came home with the phrase "gilla läget," and now I can't get it out of my head.

6. Kenzie spoke up on September 22, 2006 9:29 AM and said:

Sorry I can't help you, I only speak Swedish Chef... Bork! Bork! Bork!

7. wolfywhispers spoke up on September 22, 2006 1:51 PM and said:

LOL Kenzie!

8. VLPettersson spoke up on September 23, 2006 8:20 AM and said:

Hm...thought I sent this days ago. My husband is 100% meatball. {G} Fire away (or use him to double-check. Whatever.)

9. Rosina Lippi spoke up on September 23, 2006 8:27 AM and said:

meatball? meatball?!? this is a common thing to call Swedes? What kind of names do Swedes have for Americans?

So does he ever make a gramatical error in speaking English? Most Swedes I've known have been completely fluent in syntax and idiom, whether or not they had an accent. There was one Swede in Ann Arbor, he consistenly said "Urine Street" for "Huron Street" and could not be persuaded to do otherwise.I think he liked the reaction he got.

10. Rosina Lippi spoke up on September 23, 2006 8:28 AM and said:

Helena -- what does gilla läget" mean?

11. Helena spoke up on September 23, 2006 11:22 AM and said:

"Gilla läget" means "take it easy," or "don't get worked up" (literally: "like/enjoy the situation"). It's an annoying phrase, very, very annoying, especially when sung ("Man måste gilla läget, gil-la-la-la läget!") by my tone-deaf relatives.