Polybark (multilingual dog commands)

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Polybark (multilingual dog commands)

Postby Jar-Ptitsa » Thu Feb 16, 2017 12:06 pm

I posted a chart with some which I had found online (English, French, Dutch, Czech) , then soemone asked for romance ones, so I searched for them and posted several - Spanish, Italian, Latin etc , which I could find.

Then people discussed that they were not correct (the ones on this thread) but they discussed it on a completely different thread, so I will delete them from here.
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Re: Multilingual dog commands

Postby YtownPolyglot » Thu Feb 16, 2017 8:09 pm

Do you have any idea where I might find something similar for the Romance languages?
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Re: Multilingual dog commands

Postby Jar-Ptitsa » Thu Feb 16, 2017 8:13 pm

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Re: Multilingual dog commands

Postby Jar-Ptitsa » Thu Feb 16, 2017 8:16 pm

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Re: Multilingual dog commands

Postby Jar-Ptitsa » Thu Feb 16, 2017 8:20 pm

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Re: Multilingual dog commands

Postby Jar-Ptitsa » Sat Feb 18, 2017 3:12 pm

YtownPolyglot wrote:Do you have any idea where I might find something similar for the Romance languages?



I had searched this for you and posted about 5 charts, but on another thread they discussed the spanish one, so go there.
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Re: Multilingual dog commands

Postby YtownPolyglot » Sat Feb 18, 2017 7:09 pm

Thank you for your help.
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Re: Multilingual dog commands

Postby Systematiker » Sun Feb 19, 2017 1:07 am

I only saw them briefly, but I think the German commands were all correct.

Fun fact: in the USA, there's a tradition of training police and military dogs to respond to commands in German, so that they respond to any handler but not the "bad guy" who wants to get away.

My dog never really listened in any language...
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Re: Multilingual dog commands

Postby Hundetier » Sun Feb 19, 2017 6:58 am

Systematiker wrote:I only saw them briefly, but I think the German commands were all correct.

The tables are gone. Why?

Systematiker wrote:Fun fact: in the USA, there's a tradition of training police and military dogs to respond to commands in German, so that they respond to any handler but not the "bad guy" who wants to get away.

Interesting. On the other hand many Germans avoid some german commands because they are very hard to tell apart for dogs. For example "Sitz" and "Platz" both end with a strong "tz" and sound almost similar. [/quote]

Systematiker wrote:My dog never really listened in any language...

My dog knows all words relating to food in all languages, but commands only when she wants ... ;)
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Re: Multilingual dog commands

Postby Brun Ugle » Sun Feb 19, 2017 9:36 am

Here are some Norwegian ones I've used with my Norwegian dogs.

Sitt! - sit
Dekk! or sometimes Ligg! - lie down
Legg deg/seg or Gå (og) legg deg/seg - also lie down or go lie down, but used more to tell the dog to stop wandering about and go lie down rather than "dekk" or "ligg" which would be used more in the sense of "fall to the floor immediately". Yes, we do use the third person reflexive pronoun sometimes for some reason, especially with children and animals, it seems to me. I don't know why, but it sort of seems to soften the command a little to my ears. I'm not a native speaker though.
På plass or (Gå) på plassen din/sin - go to your place (ie it's bed or cage)
Fot or sometimes (på) plass - heel
Ti stille - Be quiet
Vær så god - Please, go ahead. - This is the polite Norwegian phrase used when offering something to somebody. We use it with the dog when we give it its food. It is supposed to sit and wait until it is given permission to take the food.
Flink (gutt/jente/bisk)! - Good (boy/girl/dog).
Apport! - Fetch
Søk! - Seek (ie look for the hidden object)
Gi labb - shake hands (give me your paw)
Fy! - An expression used to express annoyance when someone's being a bad dog.

Those are the ones that come to mind at the moment.
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