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Talking in Tongues

A few years ago, I started collecting the letting go questions in different languages from people I was working with in different countries.

Here's the list I started. Will you please add the 3 letting go questions in your language if we don't already have them, or any others that you're sure of?

Thanks a lot.

English:

Could you let it go?

Would you?

When?

Urdu:
Kiya ap isay chhor saktey ho?

Kiya ap chhor do gay?

Kab?

Slovene:

Ali lahko to opustiš?

Ali bi?

Kdaj?

Swahili:

Ungeweza kuwachilia?

Uta itikia kuwachilia?

Lini?

French:

Pourrais-tu lacher?
Le voudrais-tu?
Quand?

Portuguese:

Serias capaz de deixar isso ir?

Queres deixar isso ir?

Quando?

Bulgarian:

МОЖЕШ ЛИ ДА ГО ПУСНЕШ ДА СИ ОТИДЕ?

ЩЕ ГО НАПРАВИШ ЛИ?

КОГА?

Turkish:

Bu duyguyu serbest birakabilir misin?

Serbest birakir misin?
Ne zaman?

Chinese:
Ni nen gou fang kai da ma?
Ni yuan yi ma?
Se meh shi hou?

Tags: 3, Letting, go, languages, questions

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Permalink Reply by Per [Hootless crew] on September 11, 2011 at 2:38pm

It's a bit tricky in Swedish, but this is one way of translating it:

1. Skulle du kunna släppa taget om det?

2. Skulle du det (om du kunde)?

3. När?

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Permalink Reply by Hootless.Com on September 11, 2011 at 6:03pm

Great thread....

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Permalink Reply by Chuck Goodwin, [SMaRT Host] on September 12, 2011 at 1:48pm

Thanks a lot, Per. Here's Danish, courtesy of Bettina Pantung.

Danish:

Kan du give slip?

Vil du give slip?

Hvornår?

OK, who's going to get us German, Dutch, Norwegian, Finnish, Polish, Italian, Spanish? How about Gaelic, Romanish, Hungarian, Greek, Czech, Russian, Japanese?

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Permalink Reply by christian bartels on September 12, 2011 at 2:00pm

german:

1. Könntest du es loslassen?

2. Würdest du es loslassen?

3. Wann?

dont know if its the best translation because ´´let go´´ and ´´loslassen´´ dont quite feel the same.at least for me

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Permalink Reply by Chuck Goodwin, [SMaRT Host] on September 12, 2011 at 2:35pm

Thanks a lot, Christian. Hope you're doing well.
christian bartels said:

german:

1. Könntest du es loslassen?

2. Würdest du es loslassen?

3. Wann?

dont know if its the best translation because ´´let go´´ and ´´loslassen´´ dont quite feel the same.at least for me

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Permalink Reply by Lisa [Hootless Crew] on September 13, 2011 at 12:08am

Ha ha ha 'Will you give it the slip'? I love that....might have to use it too - cheers Bettina!!! So cool...

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Permalink Reply by Chuck Goodwin, [SMaRT Host] on September 13, 2011 at 2:19pm

Thanks to Dinu Golban

Romanian:

Ai putea să-o eliberezi?
Ai dori să o eliberezi?
Când?

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Permalink Reply by John [Hootless Crew] on September 14, 2011 at 9:03am

German : would 'freilassen' work better than 'loslassen'? Just a thought, my sense for German is far short of a native speaker's, so I could be way off.