{"id":31713,"date":"2006-03-30T10:00:44","date_gmt":"2006-03-30T10:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2006\/03\/30\/diese-briefe-wurden-von-unserem-chinesischen-freund-bersetzt\/"},"modified":"2006-03-30T10:00:44","modified_gmt":"2006-03-30T10:00:44","slug":"diese-briefe-wurden-von-unserem-chinesischen-freund-bersetzt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20060330-44\/?p=31713","title":{"rendered":"Diese Briefe wurden von unserem chinesischen Freund &#252;bersetzt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A friend of mine is taking a vacation to Germany with her husband, and she asked me for help in booking a guest room in a seminary in one of the cities they will be visiting. I translated her initial inquiry into German, and she e-mailed both the English and German versions to the manager.\n The response was entirely in German.\n For the next few days, I translated the responses from the residence manager to English, then translated my friend&#8217;s replies back into German. Finally, all the details appear to have been settled, but my friend was somewhat concerned that the residence manager may be in for a bit of a surprise to learn that neither she nor her husband speak German. (Well, her husband studied it for a year in high school and has been working through <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dw-world.com\/dw\/0,2142,2548,00.html\"> free German audio lessons courtesy of Deutsche Welle<\/a>.) She asked me to make a little note at the end of her final message to set the manager&#8217;s expectations:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"m\"><p> P.S. Wirklich sprechen wir kein Deutsch. Diese Briefe wurden von unserem chinesischen Freund &uuml;bersetzt. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> My friend had invited me to join her on the trip when she started planning it, but I declined at the time. In retrospect, I should have accepted. It probably would have been a lot of fun.\n Yesterday, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michael-puff.de\/\"> Michael Puff<\/a> remarked <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/oldnewthing\/archive\/2006\/03\/28\/563009.aspx#564318\"> in a comment<\/a>, &#8220;Wenn du mal nach Deutschland kommst, lass es mich wissen, dann treffen wir uns mal und sprechen nur Deutsch.&#8221; (&#8220;If you ever come to Germany, let me know and we can meet and speak exclusively in German.&#8221;)\n Thanks, Michael for the kind offer, aber ich vermute, dass ich keine Probleme haben werde, in Deutschland Gelegenheiten zu finden, nur Deutsch zu sprechen. (&#8220;&#8230; but I suspect that I won&#8217;t have any problems finding opportunities in Germany to speak exclusively in German.&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p> (I&#8217;m joking!  I&#8217;ll be sure to let everybody know <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/oldnewthing\/archive\/2003\/09\/18\/55006.aspx\"> when<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/oldnewthing\/archive\/2004\/02\/16\/73781.aspx\"> I go<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/oldnewthing\/archive\/2005\/06\/22\/431531.aspx\"> travelling<\/a> and am willing to meet up with people.) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend of mine is taking a vacation to Germany with her husband, and she asked me for help in booking a guest room in a seminary in one of the cities they will be visiting. I translated her initial inquiry into German, and she e-mailed both the English and German versions to the manager. 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