Latvian LSE Webcam ~ 2011

Grieta · **Posted:** April 19th, 2011, 8:44 pm

asteria wrote:

Following the tradition to give the names beginning with "g", it may be Gabriela(Gabi). That's a beautiful name and easy to pronounce. And if it is a male, Gerhard would be OK.

Very beautiful names for eagles. But those are other nest, therefore not necessarily to G. No matter what words, better to one letter a husband and wife :shake:

The main for easy to pronounce all nations.

Kitty KCMO · **Posted:** April 19th, 2011, 8:48 pm

Grieta wrote:

Sorry Kitty but I do not know how write pronunciation :help:

But you can copy these Latvian words in Google Translator and listen pronunciation. By the way, in Latvian word endings are dependent of gender, women are ending - a, -e, man -s, -is.
For example - beautiful women is skaista sieviete, beautiful man is skaists vīrietis :nod:

Hope you can understand what I wrote :slap:

Yes, I understand. It is that way in many languages I have learned, but not in English. I don't know why ours is different.

I think Skaista is a more attractive word for a female than Skaists. I think it would be pronounced somewhat like "sky-stah" or "sky-stuh" perhaps. Google translator pronounces both gender words the same. :slap:

Felis silvestris · **Posted:** April 19th, 2011, 9:23 pm

Kitty KCMO wrote:

As for Latvian words being hard for us foreigners to pronounce! They are even hard at first for foreigners' eyes to understand! :rotf:

especially if they look like this:

Quote:

mīļš

Would you care to enlighten us and tell us what it means and how it is pronounced? :puzzled:

Edit: I just saw you recommend the translator, now I know it means "love" (in this case in German "liebe") but it refuses to speak :faint:

Another edit: the English version (first checked the German) says "dear" and it speaks :rotf:

Kitty KCMO · **Posted:** April 19th, 2011, 9:29 pm

Felis silvestris wrote:

Kitty KCMO wrote:

As for Latvian words being hard for us foreigners to pronounce! They are even hard at first for foreigners' eyes to understand! :rotf:

especially if they look like this:

Quote:

mīļš

Would you care to enlighten us and tell us what it means and how it is pronounced? :puzzled:

Edit: I just saw you recommend the translator, now I know it means "love" but it refuses to speak :faint:

I couldn't even begin to imagine how to pronounce that one!

Felis silvestris · **Posted:** April 19th, 2011, 9:31 pm

Kitty KCMO wrote:

I couldn't even begin to imagine how to pronounce that one!

Kitty, the English google translator does - it's something like "meee" :wave:

Grieta · **Posted:** April 19th, 2011, 10:09 pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AB9AKbLZ5zc

this song is about a woman - mīļā

About the man beginning is - mīļ..., but the ending of the word is sh (like shine)
Together about man mīļ...sh

:banghead:

Felis silvestris · **Posted:** April 19th, 2011, 10:15 pm

I have put the piggies on mute now, so to hear better, I think translator does not really say the "s" in the end, but that might be the translator program, all I can hear is some kind of an "off" sound?

http://translate.google.com/#lv|en|m%C4%AB%C4%BC%C5%A1

:laugh:

Grieta · **Posted:** April 19th, 2011, 10:22 pm

Felis silvestris wrote:

I have put the piggies on mute now, so to hear better, I think translator does not really say the "s" in the end, but that might be the translator program, all I can hear is some kind of an "off" sound?

http://translate.google.com/#lv|en|m%C4%AB%C4%BC%C5%A1

:laugh:

In Translators the correct pronunciation - Mī.. (like mee) ļ.. ( letter L with soft pronunciation) and sh (like shine)

Kitty KCMO · **Posted:** April 19th, 2011, 10:58 pm

Grieta wrote:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AB9AKbLZ5zc

this song is about a woman - mīļā

About the man beginning is - mīļ..., but the ending of the word is sh (like shine)
Together about man mīļ...sh

:banghead:

That is a beautiful song. The singer's voice is a bit like how Rod Stewart sounds.

Grieta · **Posted:** April 19th, 2011, 11:49 pm

The most beautiful Latvian song is this (I think).
Amateur singers come together once every four years to the song festival, thousands of singers and thousands of listeners...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRqickLKXF8&feature=related

Kitty KCMO · **Posted:** April 20th, 2011, 6:53 am

I am very sleepy tonight. I woke up much earlier than usual so I could see the afternoon & sunset in Estonia, & now, trying to stay awake past the early dawn there is becoming very hard. Even though it is early for me to go to bed, I think I will do so & then enjoy photos & videos from everyone else when I come back on in a few hours. So now I am :offtobed: