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Originally Posted by naemlo
Show hand as in, copied whatever written in the forum and show, speak to a Viet... U show hand with whatever u know. An example, u learnt 5 Vietnamese words and use all 5....
Till now translate google still fails me.
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Dude your posts here often fail me. You seem to speak with lots of slang or abstract meaning or clever symbolic meaning, sometimes hard to understand for me, a native English speaker (like your "hand TV" comment earlier) With Google translate app, if you choose your words carefully so that the meaning is very literal and clear, not ambiguous, not idioms or slang, you get good translations 95% of the time. It is improving. For people here who don't speak TV, they can achieve much more using google. And so many times the obstacle is something unexpected, like that passport problem. You can't predict that, so no way to prepare for it in advance. Those are the kinds of situations where Google can be very useful. And of course the website girls, you get the process going by sending SMS, so of course having phrases ready to go is going to help a lot, have the Vietnamese ready for the few phrases you need (e.g. "em co ranh khong?" and so on). A guy should build up a special phrase book for such activity in his Notes app on his phone, ready to be copied and pasted into SMS when it's the time to use it.
Example, if you type "I need to go to the toilet and shit" then google will get the meaning very clearly. If you say "I need to go to the little boys room and lay some pipe" the translation will be a bit confusing for non-English speakers. You have to try to simplify the way you say things.