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I have been trying to learn Spanish using MP3 lesson files in my truck while I drive. I actually ordered a book off the internet to try and learn Shona so that I might surprise the staff this summer when I go back to Zim, but it's pretty confusing so I tried using the internet. Like most language programs, they start with simple sentences and even nursery rhymes. I thought I might share what I learned as I tried to translate these languages using a website that will take a sentence in nearly any language and translte it to help you communicate in the country you will be visiting. Here is what I typed in: "Old Mc Donald had a farm, E-I-E-I-O" This is what came back: Spain - Viejo McDonald tenÃa una granja e i e i o France - O'MacDonald a eu une ferme e i e i o Germany - O'MacDonald hatte einen Bauernhof e I e I O Russia - O'MacDonald имело ферму е iego е ii1 о Korea - O'MacDonaldì—는 ë†ìž¥eieioì´ ìžˆì—ˆë‹¤ Portugual - O'MacDonald teve uma fazenda e i e i o Italy - O'MacDonald ha avuto un podere e i e i o Zimbabwe - Old McDonald had a farm, and they tried to kill him and his neighbors and kicked his ass off and stole all his shit. Just thought you might like to have this information as it's always helpful to be able to communicate while traveling abroad. Mark Jackson  | ||
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Nice Buff you have there Mr. MacDonald. Do you have any left on yer farm?  Gray Ghost Hunting Safaris http://grayghostsafaris.com Phone: 615-860-4333 Email: hunts@grayghostsafaris.com NRA Benefactor DSC Professional Member SCI Member RMEF Life Member NWTF Guardian Life Sponsor NAHC Life Member Rowland Ward - SCI Scorer Took the wife the Eastern Cape for her first hunt: http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/6881000262 Hunting in the Stormberg, Winterberg and Hankey Mountains of the Eastern Cape 2018 http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/4801073142 Hunting the Eastern Cape, RSA May 22nd - June 15th 2007 http://forums.accuratereloadin...=810104007#810104007 16 Days in Zimbabwe: Leopard, plains game, fowl and more: http://forums.accuratereloadin...=212108409#212108409 Natal: Rhino, Croc, Nyala, Bushbuck and more http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/6341092311 Recent hunt in the Eastern Cape, August 2010: Pics added http://forums.accuratereloadin...261039941#9261039941 10 days in the Stormberg Mountains http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/7781081322 Back in the Stormberg Mountains with friends: May-June 2017 http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/6001078232 "Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading" - Thomas Jefferson Every morning the Zebra wakes up knowing it must outrun the fastest Lion if it wants to stay alive. Every morning the Lion wakes up knowing it must outrun the slowest Zebra or it will starve. It makes no difference if you are a Zebra or a Lion; when the Sun comes up in Africa, you must wake up running...... "If you're being chased by a Lion, you don't have to be faster than the Lion, you just have to be faster than the person next to you." | |||
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Wow, I'm embarassed Mark. I’ve known you (and your sense of humor) for something like 8 or 10 years and I STILL totally fell for it!!! Very funny! Kyler | |||
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Very funny and very true. From what a few people told me at the Convention in Dallas, this crap's already started in RSA and Namibia as well. I'm surprised though that the "politically correct police" hasn't chimed in to chastize! jorge USN (ret) DRSS Verney-Carron 450NE Cogswell & Harrison 375 Fl NE Sabatti Big Five 375 FL Magnum NE DSC Life Member NRA Life Member | |||
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I don't care who you are. That there's funny! "What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value." -Thomas Paine, "American Crisis" | |||
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Funny! Unless you happen to be farmer MacDonald in Zimbabwe, then it's the awfull truth! What really is not funny is the declarations by South African politicians to the effect that ".... we can take lessons in property reform from Zimbabwe....". Hunt Africa now, while you can! Andrew McLaren | |||
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The sad reality of this is, that I was invited by PH Mike Payne to come and stay with he and his family in Macheke, and then drive/hunt our way to either his friends property in the Save Conservency or up to Chewore. The bad news is, his 2nd generation farm in Macheke was taken away, so I am now welcome to stay with he and his family at the petrol station they own in Harare. Zimbabwaens are remarkably resilient people. The farm his family owned housed about 80 people, and he called most of the blacks who worked there "aunty" or "uncle" or "cousin" as they were his relatives more or less for generations growing up on that farm. But this is an old sad story that hundreds of families lived through, so we don't need to retell it. I was just trying to inject a little humor into an otherwise dismal situation. Like Mike said, "Ah hell, six years in Africa is a lifetime, I may be back in my old house by '09...who knows, we'll just ""make a plan"" until then......" I wish I knew a better word for resilient, but bullet-proof just doesn't seem appropriate under the circumstances.... Mark Jackson | |||
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