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[Iva]

I got this email a couple of days ago:

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Hello iva, i'm manuel from argentina, and i nedd the translations of the songs from this albums because i want to understand the feelings of John at that time but i cant traslate the lirics . If you know somebody hu have the traduccions pleas contact me, or please puse a advertisement in your page. Excuse my very bad inglish, but im a very big John fan and I'm very sad because I can't understand the John -or, RHCP- mensages on his songs. Very thanks. Your page is very great and thanks for The Empirean translations .

And I was wondering if anyone would like to give this a go. It's not a "new" thing; but I'm glad pe

So far, Invisible Movement (the song, not the site) has been translated to 30 languages.
http://www.invisible...ommunity/global

The Empyrean lyrics have been translated to three languages:
http://www.invisible-movement.net/2009/02/...-usually-just-a

And I think this could be good, overall. We'd start with languages people request most and those people on the board speak. Nothing sensational, just what's asked for.

[XguitarrockerX]

My little brother did a wonderful translation for After the Ending, in Dutch. I can ask him if he can post it. I was really surprised how he was able to translate such a deep song in Dutch, which is kind of a hard language.

[manu1236]

i'm manuel, thanks iva

[Iva]

Well, as you can see, I always want to help out.

XguitarrockerX, that sounds interesting.

[XguitarrockerX]

Iva, on Mar 1 2009, 08:30 PM, said:

Well, as you can see, I always want to help out.

XguitarrockerX, that sounds interesting.

Maybe I can send it to you? It's a really good translation:closedeyes:

[Iva]

Yup, email it or PM it.

There's a girl who'd probably be able to do the rest as she's a good translator, then I can credit both her and your bro.

[Amara]

I think the guy who translated the Empyrean lyrics to German did a really good job

[Mad Alchemist]

Should it artistic translation or just the meaning of the phrases without rhymes whatsoever?

[Iva]

The second thing with a bit of first, to a certain extent.

[NiceDream]

I'm also willing to translate lyrics to German.
And did anybody help Manuel from Argentina?
Because my Spanish is quite good as well and I could try to translate some for him/ everybody else who is interested.

[Iva]

Yes, someone did translate The Empyrean, but nothing else.
If you're willing to continue, please do go on. I just want to know who's doing what.

[driftwood]

are you interested in dialects too?
I've seen the german version is already online.
I could translate "invisible movement" into austrian dialect.

but, as it's not an actual language, I'm not sure if you'd want that.

just let me know.

[Iva]

Well, from what I know, the differences are minor, so, nope, definitely not.
However, you two could do this together OR you can do German and Carmen can do Spanish.

*I originally accepted two translations for an indentical language under different names at the very beginning of the global action; because well, the other person did not agree that she and I speak the same language and is a bit too right wing...but that's a very common issue down here.

[NiceDream]

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If you're willing to continue, please do go on. smile.gif I just want to know who's doing what.

Okay!
Would you prefer any specific song?

[NiceDream]

Okay, so I just did a translation of "Anne" into German. If there are mistakes and if anyone wants to correct something, let me know. I'll translate other songs as well and I can try to translate them to Spanish, too, like I promised.

John Frusciante - Anne

Anne, du kannst dich nicht verstecken
Wir werden dich finden
Dies ist eine Sache, bei der Stolz aus dem Fenster fliegt
Ich konnte das Gewicht nie hochheben
Ich vergaß einfach, was oben und was unten ist
Wie viele fühlen sich, wie ich mich jetzt fühle
Da ist kein Bedauern
Da ist nur das Gefühl, dass
Nichts so wird, wie ich es gerne hätte
Heute ist so viel passiert.

Mhm mhm mhm mhm mhm mhm mhm mhm
Mhm mhm mhm mhm mhm mhm mhm mhm mhm
Mhm
Die Götter der Stadt haben meinen Namen gerufen
Es bedeutet ihnen mehr als mir selbst, irgendwie
Ich verließ meinen Körper
Ich verließ mein Schicksal
Aber es ist so schwer, davon jetzt wegzubleiben

Nichts ist endlich, weil es die ganze Zeit so scheint,
Dass da nie etwas für mich war
Ich habe mein Lächeln stets gefälscht
Da sind so viele gedankenlose Engel verantwortlich für mich.

Sie geben mir Krankheit
Sie fügen mir Schmerzen im Genick zu, um mich loszuwerden
Sie sagen, bezahle uns die Kosten und wir werden jetzt weggehen
Sie schlossen meine Augen, und jetzt kann ich nichts mehr sehen

Das sind die Zeiten, vor denen ich Angst hatte
Das sind die Zeiten, die ich aus dem Weg gestoßen habe
Jetzt sind sie zurückgekommen, um mich zu jagen
Es ist deutlich zu sehen, wer Gewinner und Verlierer sein werden.

[TehSorso]

Hello,

Sorry for that email, i can now access the forums ( obviously).
I would like to translate The Empyrean in Romanian. I have already translated Song to The Syren.

Cântec pentru sirenă

În derivă pe oceane pustii,
În zadar am încercat să zâmbesc
Până ce muzica ochilor tăi şi ale tale degete
Lângă insula ta cu iubire m-au atras.

Vino la mine, vino la mine, tu cântai,
Lasă-mă să te cuprind,
Aici sunt, aici sunt,
Aşteptând să te strâng la piept.

Am visat că tu m-ai visat?
Eram eu iepurele când tu vulpe erai?
Acum naiva mea barcă zace
Ruptă, epavă pe stâncile tale.

Pentru că tu cânţi, Nu mă atinge,
Nu mă atinge, Vino mâine...
Inima mea, Inima mea,
Se sfieşte de supărare.

Sunt uimit ca un nou-născut,
Sunt necăjit ca marea...
Să mai stau între valuri,
Sau să mor, mireasa mea?

Auzi-mi cântecul, înoată la mine,
Înoată la mine, lasă-mă să te cuprind...
Aici sunt, aici sunt,
Aşteptând să te strâng în braţe.

This is not perfect, the song is quite tricky to translate and i tried to keep it somehow artistically readable, not just plain translate it.

[TehSorso]

I have translated Unreachable, God, Heaven, Enough of me and DArk/Light.
@ IVA

Should i post them here, i'd take up a huge lot of space?
Should i send them to you by email?

Are they needed at all?

Too many questions, darn it

[Iva]

Email would probably be better, as I'm not sure when exactly I'll be able to implement this onto the website. But I did receive your email, fixed one of the issues (administrator approves all registrations after people have validated their emails and it's not always done immediately), and I shall respond you when the time allows me to.

Recently, I've been getting way too much work offers and my clients like ten thousand revisions of every single website or print so I sure hope I'll somehow manage to put the new version of the site up and link everything that's needed by e.g. September.