drax wrote:Hi, I'm John,
I'm wondering if anyone would be so kind as to help me?
I have a friend in Sarawak who sends me an SMS about once a month, but sometimes they forget that [unfortunately ] my only language is English, and their last SMS is a mix of English, Bahasa (Sarawakian version I think), and possibly Bidayuh.
I don't want to appear rude by asking them to resend it in English only so was wondering if anyone on this forum could tell me what their last SMS says? I only ask this once and will NOT be making a habit of it!
Their SMS says:
Since covid atik some friends stay away so kuk koz aku over exposed so budak 2x sekolah.
Bara doh ambik vaccine tapi akan ambik our flu injection coming april atik.
Bara iah mboh jarang close social n bara stay so kuk as much as possible.
Mun interact sama diripun iah pakey mask.
Many thanks in advance to anyone who can help, but if no one can help then thanks anyway for reading my post.
Looking forward, can anyone advise where I can buy DVD(s) with lessons in Bahasa?
Thank you kindly
John
Sounds like a good challenge. If you don't want to ask them to send in English only, you could ask them to send in Bahasa only.. then maybe Google translate would be more useful? (I imagine think the algorithm would get really confused if there are multiple languages mixed together because it's not just looking up one word at a time - it's likely using neural networks that are trained to understand more complicated sentence structures)