Below is the same sentence in 40 languages. The translations Please note that Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian and Montenegrin belong to the same pluricentric language. As the former two are written in Romance alphabet and the latter in Cyrillic letter, both translations (or transliterations, depending on the eye of the beholder) are shown. Notably, the language choice is from a Dutch perspective, as is this website’s owner. From that perspective, there is an overrepresentation of European languages as in relation to world languages. The list starts with 11 Germanic, 9 Romance and 11 Slavic languages and is then followed by one more European language group, Hellenic (Greek). After follows a selection of languages of personal interest: Malay (as spoken in Indonesia followed by the version of Malaysia), Chinese (simplified from China and traditional Chinese as used in Taiwan), Japanese. The languages may appear as a random choice for visitors and is part of a dynamic process with possible complements later.
English | I translate web pages and stories to many languages. |
Dutch | Ik vertaal webpagina’s en verhalen naar vele talen. |
Afrikaans | Ek vertaal webbladsye en stories in baie tale. |
Frisian | Ik set websiden en ferhalen oer yn in protte talen. |
German | Ich übersetze Webseiten und Geschichten in viele Sprachen. |
Yiddish | איך זעץ וועב זייַטלעך און מעשיות צו פילע שפּראַכן. |
Luxembourgish | Ech iwwersetze Websäiten a Geschichten a ville Sproochen. |
Swedish | Jag översätter webbsidor och berättelser till många språk. |
Danish | Jeg oversætter websider og historier til mange sprog. |
Norwegian | Jeg oversetter websider og historier til mange språk. |
Icelandic | Ég þýði vefsíður og sögur á mörg tungumál. |
Spanish | Traduzco páginas web e historias a muchos idiomas. |
Portuguese | Eu traduzo páginas da web e histórias para vários idiomas. |
Galician | Eu traduzo páxinas web e historias a moitos idiomas. |
Catalan | Tradueixo pàgines web i històries a molts idiomes. |
French | Je traduis des pages Web et des histoires dans de nombreuses langues. |
Italian | Traduco pagine web e storie in molte lingue. |
Corsican | Traduce pagine web è storie in parechje lingue. |
Romanian | Traduc pagini web și povești în multe limbi. |
Latin | Ego interpretari paginarum, ad fabulas plures linguas. |
Czech | Překládám webové stránky a příběhy do mnoha jazyků. |
Slovak | Prekladám webové stránky a príbehy do mnohých jazykov. |
in Polish | Tłumaczę strony internetowe i opowiadania na wiele języków. |
Russian | Я перевожу веб-страницы и рассказы на многие языки. |
Belarussian | Я перакладаю вэб-старонкі і гісторыі на многія мовы. |
Ukrainian | Я перекладаю веб-сторінки та історії багатьма мовами. |
Croatian (Bosnian) | Prevodim web stranice i priče na mnoge jezike. |
Serbian | Преводим веб странице и приче на многе језике. |
Slovenian | Spletne strani in zgodbe prevajam v številne jezike. |
Bulgarian | Превеждам уеб страници и истории на много езици. |
Macedonian | Преведувам веб-страници и приказни на многу јазици. |
Greek | Μεταφράζω ιστοσελίδες και ιστορίες σε πολλές γλώσσες. |
Indonesian | Saya menerjemahkan halaman web dan cerita ke banyak bahasa. |
Malay | Saya menterjemahkan laman web dan cerita ke banyak bahasa. |
simplified Chinese | 我将网页和故事翻译成多种语言。 |
traditional Chinese | 我將網頁和故事翻譯成多種語言。 |
Japanese | 私はウェブページやストーリーを多くの言語に翻訳しています。 |
Hindi | मैं वेब पेजों और कहानियों का कई भाषाओं में अनुवाद करता हूं। |
Arabic | أترجم صفحات الويب والقصص إلى العديد من اللغات. |
Hebrew | אני מתרגם דפי אינטרנט וסיפורים לשפות רבות. |