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Keep Hoping Machine Running ([personal profile] thefourthvine) wrote2008-03-22 12:36 pm

Help, friends list?

I need translations (in any language - I will totally welcome things like Elvish and Klingon, too) for the following five words:

Welcome

Read

Listen

Create

Explore

Any bilingual/multilingual people out there who like to help me out? You'll get - okay. You'll just get thanks. But they will be very sincere thanks.
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[personal profile] athenejen 2008-03-22 08:44 pm (UTC)(link)
And in traditional Chinese characters (as used in Taiwan and some overseas Chinese communities):

Welcome: 歡迎

Read: 讀

Listen: 聽

Create: 創作
[Definitely contextual; this version is specifically "create," with imagination implied, whereas zuo4 (作) by itself is a more general "do" or "make."]

Explore: 探險
[Also a bit contextual. This version (tan4xian3) is to explore in a sort of adventuresome way. If you want explore in a more investigative sort of way, then go with tan4suo3: 探索. I suspect the latter is more commonly used as well, but I'm not a native speaker so don't quote me on that.]