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Message board > To Yougoslavian teachers
To Yougoslavian teachers
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soasiglem
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To Yougoslavian teachers
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An 8 years old girl told me ( her teacher) yesterday with sparkling eyes: " ladgi san maestra" which means "you are beautiful teacher" I really would like to answer her in her language "thank you, you are beautiful too!"
She lives in France, speaks French very well and is one of my 28 pupils as I am a French teacher
It would be nice of you to help me as we only have a week left, and I don �t want to ask her to translate it for me
Thanks so much! Hugs from France
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24 Jun 2009
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Ivona
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Hmmm, are you sure the girl is from (ex) Yugoslavia?? because i don �t really understand "ladgi san maestra" .... hmmmm ... 
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24 Jun 2009
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valedanilova
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Dear Soasiglem, there must me some confusion or misunderstanding....I don �t understand what "ladgi san maestra" means either, so it cannot be in any of the (ex) Yugoslav languages... sorry...  |
24 Jun 2009
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annna
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Dear Soasiglem, I agree with Ivona and Valedanilova. I �m from Slovenia (ex Yugoslav republic) and "ladgi san maestra" is not Slovene, our language. Nice day to you and your dear pupil. Annna |
24 Jun 2009
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Ivona
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Hehe, at least the post brought us together. We could do with Anita (CRO), too, to make the pic ... fuller?? Anyway, to me �san � and �maestra � sound toooo Italian. Maybe, if there �s an Italian member, he/she could help out. It would not be strange for soasiglem to make the mistake because Italians do have all the sounds that we have in our Slavic languages.
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24 Jun 2009
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alien boy
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Hmmm. Good luck!
I only know ladｇi as being Hindi/Punjabi or from an obscure Filipino dialect.
�san� is usually related to �Saint � in most of the Italian or Spanish I�ve read (and it�s an honorific in Japanese) while �maestra� is usually related to �master � or perhaps �school mistress �.
Sorry I�m not more helpful... but this has got me curious!
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24 Jun 2009
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alien boy
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It �s not Romanian is it? Romanian is very close to Latin....
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24 Jun 2009
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Ivona
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Jecika, what are you doing here?? I was here first to represent us!  Anyway,
the student would have to have a really strong pronunciation of the "D"
sound to be heard like a "DG" ... Hmmm ... Italians have the same "D"
as we do so i don �t think it is it ... And yes, "san" comes from
"santo" meaning "saint". Maestro (m.) and maestra (f.) do mean
"teacher" in Italian. I�m totally puzzled with the first word. The only
word that comes to my mind that could be pronounced similarly is leggere (=read),
and the conjugation for the 2nd person sg would be "leggi", i.e. (TU)
LEGGI (the subject can be omitted) ... Sooooo ... it could mean "You read/You are reading, St Teacher"  How does that sound?Now, where are you soasiglem to help us out with more clues!??!
EDIT: Now, if we take punctuation into consideration, and if it was "Leggi, (comma) san maestra" it could have been an imperative!
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24 Jun 2009
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Ivona
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(ahhhh, i �ve done sth to the thread after editing mine! your post is not the last one!)
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24 Jun 2009
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Ladgi = Lady (maybe ... perhaps ... probably not) 
... putting off my thinking cap 