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SaintOBrien
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Hey guys,

My name's Matt and I'm an experienced linguist so I just wanted to let everyone know I'm here to help (for free) if you need any help translating Occult material into English. If you need help translating non-occult material, I'd be glad to help but priority will go to occult requests first.

Before I list the languages I know, let me explain 2 things- The ILR scale and mutual intelligibility.

1) The ILR scale = Interagency Language Roundtable scale.
It's the scale to score how well a person knows a language. The scale goes from 0-5. 0 means you know nothing about the language, 5 means you speak the language like a native. When a government wants to count how many people “know” a certain language, the person needs to rank at least a 3.

2) Mutual intelligibility refers to refers to being able to understand a language that is related to a language that you know. An example would be a Spanish speaker being able to understand Italian to a certain degree because they're both siblings from the same language family.

So here's what I know:

* German, Spanish and French. I can speak these languages at a level 3, but I can read and write them at a level 4.
* Bulgarian level 2
* Korean level 1

* I can also read & write Korean (Hangul), Russian (Cyrillic), Greek (print, not cursive) and Egyptian hieroglyphs. (A note on alphabets- I can read and write them, but I don't understand them. For example- if you asked me to translate the Egyptian book of the dead, I can look at hieroglyphs and tell you how to PRONOUNCE the words, but I don't know the MEANING of the words.)


Languages I can understand because of mutual intelligibility are here, grouped by the language family:

* Dead languages- Latin and Old English (ex: Beowulf)

* Romance- Italian/Sicilian and Portuguese.

* Germanic- Yiddish, Dutch, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Icelandic, Flemish, Frisian.

* Slavic- Macedonian, Russian, Serbian.

This isn't an exhaustive list, so if you need help with a language that isn't listed here then it never hurts to ask :)

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The tarot interpretations of Etteilla are still not fully translated to english. If you could translate them, I'm pretty sure there are a couple of publisher that would be interested to actually pay you for it.

1. Etteilla, ou manière de se récréer avec un jeu de cartes.
2. Manière de se récréer avec le jeu de cartes nommées Tarots
3. Cour théorique et pratique du Livre du Thot


Court de Gébelin published in his massive work Le Monde primitif. Still not translated

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Nice, thanks a lot! It's weird to think they haven't been fully translated considering how common French is. I'll try to locate the original texts now

Thanks again,
-Matt

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Hello! I can help too , I'm a 100% french canadian [happy2]
« Les normaux croient que je suis des leurs.Mais je ne pourrai pas rester une heure au milieu d'eux.J'ai besoin de vivre là-bas, de l'autre côté de ce mur.Mais là-bas, on ne veut pas de moi.»Jean-Paul Sartre

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Asha_88 wrote:Hello! I can help too , I'm a 100% french canadian [happy2]
Haha donc tu viens du Québec? [wink]

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Oui exactement! [yay]
« Les normaux croient que je suis des leurs.Mais je ne pourrai pas rester une heure au milieu d'eux.J'ai besoin de vivre là-bas, de l'autre côté de ce mur.Mais là-bas, on ne veut pas de moi.»Jean-Paul Sartre

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As a Serbian, I can offer help if anything in the following languages needs to be translated:
-Serbian
-Croatian
-Bosnian
-Macedonian
-Montenegrian
-Slovenian, to a lesser extent

Just pm me :-)

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Wow, so many languages..

I know English at 5, Russian at maybe 2 and a secret language at 5.
on hiatus. contact via elsewhere.

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