Your shared openness gives me hope for reconciliation between your peoples. When people easily can interact by the Internet they might discover everyone of their "enemies" aren't all the same. I'm sure some powerful people and organisations in both China and Japan benefit from keeping up certain level of tension for their own shady gains. Interacting directly with friendly and open-minded people "on the other side" luckily tends to ruin that.
If Israelis, Palestinians and Iranians can work together for peace, so can Japanese and Chinese. It has to start somewhere.
The path towards peace, safety and friendship might be long, but then both China and Japan are countries with already very long histories.
Dec 27 2012: Actually the Norwegian "Vi elsker deg" is the singular form. "Vi elsker dere" is the plural. As in the Danish "vi elsker dig" (singular) /"vi elsker jer" (plural)
Bosnian: Mi vas volimo
Croatian: Mi vas volimo (jup, same as the Bosnian)
Serbian: Ми вас волимо (actually it is the exact same as the Bosnian and Croatian versions - they just use the Cyrillic alphabet instead)
Macedonian: Ве сакаме ("Ve sakame" if written in the Latin alphabet, however the Cyrillic alphabet is the one officially used in Macedonia). Google translate says it is "vi elsker dig" (singular) and not "vi elsker jer" (plural). However my Bosnian translator-friend says it is correct.
A few from Eastern Europe:
Polish: Kochamy was
Russian: Мы вас любим (Latin: My vas lyubim)
Bulgarian: Обичаме ви (Latin: Obichame vi)
And two more from here in Scandinavia (Swedish, Danish and Norwegian are familiar languages):
Swedish: Vi älskar er
Norwegian: Vi elsker dere
Dec 25 2012: Hi Juliette - got think of (from the part were you are talking with Lejan, all of which I have read with interest) if you want the "you" part to be singular or plurar? As in "we love you (individual person)" or as in "we love you (your kind/everyone)"?
If in plural the Danish is "Vi elsker jer". Also, the German should probably be changed as well*
(I noted the mention between "du" and "Sie". We actually have the same distinction in Danish between casual and official titling (du/Sie in German, du/Dem in Danish). However if you use the official titling in Danish you either have to be a very pretentious hotshot in the business world or just using it for some very old old people lying on their death bed who probably thinks it is hilarious for someone younger to use those old entitlements (I know my grandmother on my fathers side got sick of it when she was 92 and waiting to die). However as we have German in grade school we learn it might have some implications when interacting with Germans. My own experience though is that if you just are friendly, inviting and generally respectful Germans will let all atrocities toward their language by a drunken Dane pass).
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Greenlandic: Asavatsigit
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Faroese: Vit elska tykkum
Clicky clicky: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faroese_language
:)
The Faroe Islands are a part of Denmark with their own "home rule". And language, obviously. It is kind of close to Icelandic.
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Your shared openness gives me hope for reconciliation between your peoples. When people easily can interact by the Internet they might discover everyone of their "enemies" aren't all the same. I'm sure some powerful people and organisations in both China and Japan benefit from keeping up certain level of tension for their own shady gains. Interacting directly with friendly and open-minded people "on the other side" luckily tends to ruin that.
If Israelis, Palestinians and Iranians can work together for peace, so can Japanese and Chinese. It has to start somewhere.
The path towards peace, safety and friendship might be long, but then both China and Japan are countries with already very long histories.
Don't worry about your English - it is great :)
Cheers from Denmark,
Nikolaj
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Bosnian: Mi vas volimo
Croatian: Mi vas volimo (jup, same as the Bosnian)
Serbian: Ми вас волимо (actually it is the exact same as the Bosnian and Croatian versions - they just use the Cyrillic alphabet instead)
Macedonian: Ве сакаме ("Ve sakame" if written in the Latin alphabet, however the Cyrillic alphabet is the one officially used in Macedonia). Google translate says it is "vi elsker dig" (singular) and not "vi elsker jer" (plural). However my Bosnian translator-friend says it is correct.
A few from Eastern Europe:
Polish: Kochamy was
Russian: Мы вас любим (Latin: My vas lyubim)
Bulgarian: Обичаме ви (Latin: Obichame vi)
And two more from here in Scandinavia (Swedish, Danish and Norwegian are familiar languages):
Swedish: Vi älskar er
Norwegian: Vi elsker dere
I'll see if I can fetch some more.
Best regards,
Nikolaj
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If in plural the Danish is "Vi elsker jer". Also, the German should probably be changed as well*
(I noted the mention between "du" and "Sie". We actually have the same distinction in Danish between casual and official titling (du/Sie in German, du/Dem in Danish). However if you use the official titling in Danish you either have to be a very pretentious hotshot in the business world or just using it for some very old old people lying on their death bed who probably thinks it is hilarious for someone younger to use those old entitlements (I know my grandmother on my fathers side got sick of it when she was 92 and waiting to die). However as we have German in grade school we learn it might have some implications when interacting with Germans. My own experience though is that if you just are friendly, inviting and generally respectful Germans will let all atrocities toward their language by a drunken Dane pass).
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I will try to find some more for you when I get back home tomorrow. I've got some immigrant contacts here.
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Nikolaj
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