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It seems like a city name.
I am translating this word to Japanese. Japanese has a tendency to adapt the orininal language's pronunciation.
Can you help me?
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Nina1975 挪威 Local time: 03:20 English英语译成Norwegian挪威语 + ...
Sykkylven
Jun 20, 2003
melody wrote:
It seems like a city name.
I am translating this word to Japanese. Japanese has a tendency to adapt the orininal language's pronunciation.
Can you help me?
It is a place name.I don´t know Japanese,but do they translate names?
Anyway,it is a small township with 7200 inhabitants in the west of norway.In Møre og Romsdal county,near Ålesund.
I hope this is any help.
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Do they pronounce this like "Sick-killven", or"Psykillven" or ...?
Nina1975 wrote:
melody wrote:
It seems like a city name.
I am translating this word to Japanese. Japanese has a tendency to adapt the orininal language's pronunciation.
Can you help me?
It is a place name.I don´t know Japanese,but do they translate names?
Anyway,it is a small township with 7200 inhabitants in the west of norway.In Møre og Romsdal county,near Ålesund.
I hope this is any help.
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Phonetic transcription (International Phonetic Alphabet: /'syk'ylven/
Good luck with your transcription into Japanese!
Eivind
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Nina1975 挪威 Local time: 03:20 English英语译成Norwegian挪威语 + ...
yes,more like "psykkylven"
Jun 20, 2003
melody wrote:
Thank you for your explanation.
Do they pronounce this like "Sick-killven", or"Psykillven" or ...?
Nina1975 wrote:
melody wrote:
It seems like a city name.
I am translating this word to Japanese. Japanese has a tendency to adapt the orininal language's pronunciation.
Can you help me?
It is a place name.I don´t know Japanese,but do they translate names?
Anyway,it is a small township with 7200 inhabitants in the west of norway.In Møre og Romsdal county,near Ålesund.
I hope this is any help.
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I've never been there. But I have an impression from the literature I am translating that Norway has beautiful nature, art, technology, food (of course), towns, and people!
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