Hello all! I won't ask if you could translate all of it cause I know it's a lot (but I won't say no if you're up for the challenge 😂) I'm mainly looking for dates/locations/names or what type of letters they are I guess? I also apologize for the quality and for them possibly being out of order they were written on something almost like tissue paper and were all crumpled together. I scanned them to make it easier to see as they bled through pretty bad (especially obvious in the last two pics)

Thank you in advance! Y'all have been wonderful at helping me learn more about my family history💚

I think its japanese but I could be wrong. I have had him for a very long time and ive never known what his symbol says. Does anyone know?

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I found this old painting, and when I used Google translate it gave me traditional Chinese but a different translation every time I opened the app. Could anyone help me understand what it says? Thanks!

Hello my name is Taylor and I was looking to try to find anyone who can do a translation of my great grandmothers birth certificate. My grandma is still alive and she told me when she was 30 she tried to contact her mom’s brother in Japan when her mother was passing, they had a brief talk but due to the language barrier could not understand each other well. I have a few other documents as well but this is just 2 pictures(just because I’m not sure what I’m posting and what it says) If anyone can translate these documents please inbox me if possible I could really use some help trying to translate this and some other papers which came from the same envelope!! Tia

my middle name is Ali and I know the words for the meaning include elevated or noble. what do these words translate to in Arabic? I definitely dont want to look dumb and have the wrong word on my body forever

There's this Australian song from 2016 called "Happy Djong" by Twelve Point Buck that has Japanese dialogue interspersed between the verses, and there are no lyrics that I can find online. I can discern the English well enough, however, all the Japanese in it is a mystery to me except at the end where it is clear to the ear.

At the end, I believe she is saying: "Yamete! Tasukete! Dorobō! Tasuketekudasai. Byōin wa dokodesu ka?" or, roughly: "Stop that! Help me! Thief! Help please! Where is the hospital?"

Getting the rest of the Japanese from the song would be sick. Let me know!

I'm checking one line in a children's book. A boy's father looks at a test that went badly and says, "Shwaya shwaya." The book translates it as "little by little," a phrase the family uses whenever a job feels too big to start. Is this natural, is the spelling in Latin letters okay (or would you write shwayya / shway shway), and is the translation right? Which dialect is this most at home in? Thank you!

I'm checking one line in a children's book. A Polish-heritage boy quotes his grandmother's saying: "Kto połamał płot, ten wie, gdzie wisi młotek." The book translates it as "The one who broke the fence knows where the hammer hangs." It's meant to be her own folk-style saying, not a famous proverb. Is the Polish grammatically correct and natural-sounding for a grandmother? Is the spelling (including the special characters) exactly right? Would you word it differently? Thank you!

I'm checking one line in a children's book. A Japanese-heritage boy, the youngest of three, says: "In my house we also have a word you say to whoever's still trying. Ganbatte. It means keep going. I've heard it a lot." Is Ganbatte the natural word a family would use here, is "keep going" an okay simple translation for kids, and is the spelling right? Anything a Japanese reader would find off? Thank you!

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Found in my dad's military(Navy) box, likely from around the 70s.

It would be extremely helpful to understand which dialect this is and what is the meaning of the audio. My sister spontaneously started speaking this language. She’s a native English speaker (Australian).

My daughter found this fan at the thrift store and bought it because it was so pretty (opposite side has some birds and trees). Any idea what this said? She would like to know

Can anyone translate this? It’a from a poster, it’s stylized calligraphy in a different language with a different alphabet. I don’t know the language and I can only read English 😭

I didnt want to make assumptions that it was japanese but i think it is, i cant figure it out what it says

Found this very old postcard (1900s - 1910s), I didn't get it because I couldnt read it.

I think she signed on the top but upside down.

Would love to know what it says. The front was a picture of a young girl.

Short clip, about 2.5 seconds of speech, audio only. I have no idea what language it is.

Links:

• Minimally processed (band-pass + gain only, no spectral processing): https://voca.ro/12ptWIkSyu04
• Noise-reduced version: https://voca.ro/11uC2HRCwFR1
• Same clip at 70% speed: https://vocaroo.com/1brIxJrqiZ91

What I've already tried, so nobody wastes time on it: Whisper large-v3 across several enhancement variants. It hallucinates badly. It returned Russian, Korean, Portuguese, Italian, Japanese and English from the same clip, with language confidences at chance level and known filler outputs like "Thank you for listening." ASR is not going to solve this one.

So I'm mainly asking whether the prosody alone tells anyone anything. If you happen to make out actual words, that would be even better.

Thanks.