Tonight a family of 6, The mother, an 18 year old boy, 17 year old, a 13 9 and 5 year old girls are stepping off an airplain into Grand Rapids MI. They are from a refugee camp in Rwolanda (French I believe) with nothing. They have no clothes, or any personal belongings. Our church is sponcering them and we got them a fully furnished house (temporary for 2 months) and all of the extras. They have "toasters, crock pots, can openers, dishwasher", and so on. They have never seen these things and don't know how to use them. I will be going in to teach them what to do, but they don't speak English and I don't speak French.
All lables for food like "rice, beans, tomatoes, flour, salt and pepper" will be in English.
Can someone please name the "item" and type the following message for me so I can introduce myself and we can relabel items?
"Hi My name is Gwynn, I am from Vineyard North Church, I am here to help you".
2007-06-07 16:08:05 · 7 answers · asked by Gwynn T 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
This is "hello my name is gwen...etc" in french Bonjour mon nom est Gwynn, je suis d'église du nord de vigne, je suis ici pour vous aider"
You might also want to say "I am sorry. I do not speak french"--- Je suis désolé. Je ne parle pas français
Go to this website and you will be able to communicate with them AND they with you. We have had students stay with us from other countries and its how we communicated. http://babelfish.yahoo.com
2007-06-07 16:14:59 · answer #1 · answered by Laptop Jesus 3.9 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'd second the suggestion about using an online translation service. If they can read and you can talk to them in some location that has wifi access (library? starbucks? some hotels (depends on the size of the community, maybe)? your house?) you can probably get a lot of their questions answered pretty quickly. Better still, if your local high school has a French class you can probably offer the teacher something to do some translation for you. It's probably better than babelfish anyway.
2007-06-07 23:26:34 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's pronounced like this: bonshor, Je mappelle Gwynn, Je vi-ahn de la e-glee-ease deh Vineyard North, Je su-ee i-cee pour voos eh-deh.
2007-06-07 23:36:22 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hum, you might have been better off if you put this question in the language section.
If you type in the word "translation" into Google or Yahoo, you will find free on-line instant translation services, like this one:
2007-06-07 23:15:59 · answer #4 · answered by Randy G 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Get a French/English dictionary.
2007-06-07 23:13:11 · answer #5 · answered by The Pope 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hello, my name is Philippe, from Switzerland,
No problem for you to use my mail-adress for asking ...
Modern material can also be new for them ! You have to show how to use it !
They are not stuid ... so they can see wht it is about : rice is rice !
But ...
Clothes - habits, vêtements
Toaster - grille-pain
Can opener - ouvre-boîtes
Dishwasher - lave-vaisselle
Rice - riz
Beans - haricots
Tomatoes - tomates
Flour - farine
2007-06-08 06:11:01 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Je ici pour vous aide de le nome de Juse .
rie et sel et tomato et rose
2007-06-07 23:16:33 · answer #7 · answered by Mosa A 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋