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| Ezy Ryder Diglot Senior Member Poland youtube.com/user/Kat Joined 4346 days ago 284 posts - 387 votes  Speaks: Polish*, English Studies: Mandarin, Japanese | Message 113 of 144 09 February 2015 at 2:48pm | IP Logged | ||
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@Woodsei, I'm glad someone liked these songs :) There are more on YouTube.
I haven't translated anything else in a while, so, thanks for reminding me of it. Walentyna Twist Master Twardowski from above, called through the clouds "Valentina, bravo! encore!" And sang to her, from the moon afar the Valentina Twist Valentina, Valentina Now the land of stars knows her well There were flowers, for Gagarin And Valentina's got a Twist Valentina, Valentina Is the world's first space Miss With her name Starts the newest Valentina Twist Maybe the old moon Will find two guitars And send you a letter Inviting you to come, and sing with it the Valentina Twist Valentina, Valentina Now the land of stars knows her well There were flowers, for Gagarin And Valentina's got a Twist Valentina, Valentina Is the world's first space Miss With her name Starts the newest Valentina Twist //Saxophone solo Valentina, Valentina Now the land of stars knows her well There were flowers, for Gagarin And Valentina's got a Twist Valentina, Valentina Is the world's first space Miss With her name Starts the newest Va-len-ti-na Twist 上からトファードフスキ先生、 雲を通って呼んでた 「ワレンチナおめでとう！ もう一回！」って 月の遠方から、 『ワレンチナ・ツイスト』を 歌ってあげた ワレンチナ、ワレンチナ もう星星の世界に親密的にご存知される ガガーリンが、花をもらった ワレンチナは、ツイストを ワレンチナ、ワレンチナ 世界一星空のミスだ 彼女の名前で 最新の『ワレンチナ・ツイスト』が始まる たぶん古い月様、 ギターの2つを探して 「一緒に歌おうぞ」って 通信を送信する 『ワレンチナ・ツイスト』を ワレンチナ、ワレンチナ もう星星の世界に親密的にご存知される ガガーリンが、花をもらった ワレンチナは、ツイストを ワレンチナ、ワレンチナ 世界一星空のミスだ 彼女の名前で 最新の『ワレンチナ・ツイスト』が始まる //サクソフォーン・ソロ ワレンチナ、ワレンチナ もう星星の世界に親密的にご存知される ガガーリンが、花をもらった ワレンチナは、ツイストを ワレンチナ、ワレンチナ 世界一星空のミスだ 彼女の名前で始まる 最新の『ワ・レン・チ・ナ・ツイスト』が 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Ezy Ryder Diglot Senior Member Poland youtube.com/user/Kat Joined 4346 days ago 284 posts - 387 votes Speaks: Polish*, English Studies: Mandarin, Japanese | Message 114 of 144 09 February 2015 at 9:48pm | IP Logged | ||
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Mandarin text coverage after Week 1: 96.87%
Method of calculation: You’d generally expect dealing with word counts, but that’s tiresome with longer texts in languages which abstain from using spaces, so I simply divided the sum of (non-unique) characters making up words I understood (not necessarily known), by the sum of (non-unique) characters in the whole text (not counting punctuation, etc. Just the Hanzi). Text type: An excerpt from a light novel I’ve read in Japanese. 320 Hanzi-long. Impressions: Better than I thought. But having read the text in Japanese before probably helped. I've read just a handful of (not particularly long) Wikipedia articles this week, need to work on that. Edited by Ezy Ryder on 09 February 2015 at 9:48pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Ezy Ryder Diglot Senior Member Poland youtube.com/user/Kat Joined 4346 days ago 284 posts - 387 votes Speaks: Polish*, English Studies: Mandarin, Japanese | Message 115 of 144 12 February 2015 at 1:16pm | IP Logged | ||
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February TAC Challenge for Japanese: link
Also, trying the Pomodoro technique. And, a translation of a song about having long hair: Włosy When you're young and beautiful, no no no, don't grow a mustache or a beard Just wear, wear, wear your hair long like we do When you're old and ugly, no no no, don't waste a razor or a shaver Just wear, wear, wear your hair long like we do 'Coz the best way to find a girl Is to turn your hair into a cape So wear, wear long hair like we do, brother Now the family wants you out of the house Now the barber chases you with a pair of scissors But wear, wear, wear long hair like we do A hippie's walking with long hair He turned at Krucza, goes in the alleys //Had to look up the lyrics here And wear, wear, wear long hair like we do A soldier's walking with long hair WSW chases him down the alleys //WSW - Internal Military Service. Needed to look it up on Wikipedia But wear, wear, wear your hair long like we do 'Coz the best way to find a woman Is to make a wristlet out of your hair So wear, wear long hair like we, brother The family wants you out of the house again The barber chases you with a pair of scissors again But wear, wear, wear your hair long like we do //Guitar solo Father's walking, carrying a new set of chess Long hair, hang from his armpit So wear, wear, wear your hair long like we do Aunt's going around, completely barefoot Long hair, hang from her nose So wear, wear, wear your hair long like we do When you're young and beautiful, no no no, don't grow a mustache or a beard Just wear, wear, your hair long like we do, brother And may the family throw you outta the house And may the barber chase you with a pair of scissors But wear, wear, wear your hair long like we---, like we! //Guitar solo Edited by Ezy Ryder on 12 February 2015 at 1:19pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Ezy Ryder Diglot Senior Member Poland youtube.com/user/Kat Joined 4346 days ago 284 posts - 387 votes Speaks: Polish*, English Studies: Mandarin, Japanese | Message 116 of 144 15 February 2015 at 8:54pm | IP Logged | ||
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I didn't study much recently. The Pomodoro technique made me study more again (about
an hour a day in total), and mixing new cards with reviews did in fact combine motivation boosting with a higher pace than doing new cards in one go would. Finding some recently learnt characters during reading also was rather uplifting. But that's still not enough. Worst of all, I had sleeping (or rather getting up) problems again today. I slept from 3AM to 8AM, 11AM-1PM, and 3PM-6PM. So, a total of 10 hours, and I've been exhausted all day anyway. Not really the best state for studying. And so I thought, you often hear people here talking about using the dead time. And I tend to procrastinate at least over an hour a day. So... if I could review while procrastinating... you see where I'm going? I suspect my idea is a bit similar to how I've read the Chinese used to learn the characters in the past. By memorizing the 三百千. So, if I'd make up an order for all the characters I want to know, and memorize it, I could review them without needing Anki to prompt me with what to review. Granted, that in itself wouldn't provide much feedback other than "I don't remember the character and definitely need to look it up" and "I think I remember it." But perhaps, I could sorta "acquire" the correct "spelling" of characters, the way I learnt the (loathed by most schoolchildren) Polish orthography. That is, by reading. Perhaps supplemented with some mnemonics. And now, for something completely different: And I thought bilingual texts were something relatively recent: 
Things like that are gonna come in handy. PS.:Found an open-source Chinese (and Arabic, while at that) tokenizer. Gonna need to learn some Java now. Considering my needs, that shouldn't be overly difficult...? Edited by Ezy Ryder on 15 February 2015 at 8:59pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| vonPeterhof Tetraglot Senior Member Russian FederationRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4769 days ago 715 posts - 1527 votes Speaks: Russian*, EnglishC2, Japanese, German Studies: Kazakh, Korean, Norwegian, Turkish | Message 117 of 144 17 February 2015 at 6:15am | IP Logged | ||
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| Ezy Ryder Diglot Senior Member Poland youtube.com/user/Kat Joined 4346 days ago 284 posts - 387 votes Speaks: Polish*, English Studies: Mandarin, Japanese | Message 118 of 144 17 February 2015 at 11:40pm | IP Logged | ||
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You at least had an opportunity to find something like that :)
I thought for a change, I'd translate an English song: Once I Had a Woman おお、一頃女ができた おお、できるだけ優しかった うん、女ができた （百パーセントの女） おお、白日も、夜も可愛がられてた 俺の陽光は 彼女のために そうじゃなかったら もう一日かかってるよ （かかっても） ダラスまでも行っちゃった テキサス州だって 二本棒な 中古おてもとみたいに //この台詞な、訳しにくかった 俺のダラスミツバチ(/ダーリン?)を探してる 誰なんだろう？ 誰なんだろ？ 手伝って 彼女を見つけて うん ／／ソロ 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Ezy Ryder Diglot Senior Member Poland youtube.com/user/Kat Joined 4346 days ago 284 posts - 387 votes Speaks: Polish*, English Studies: Mandarin, Japanese | Message 119 of 144 18 February 2015 at 10:08am | IP Logged | ||
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I got the order of the first 100 characters for mental revision memorized. It took
three days... I need to speed up the tempo. At least I've got some things figured now. E.g., now I know I need to make the stories not only for each line (ten characters long), but also connecting the first character of each line to the last one of the previous one. A fun way of practicing the order is to take a timer, and time how much it takes me to write all of them. Currently, I can write the characters in the order from memory, at about 6-8s per character (but keep in mind that among the first characters, there are more really simple ones). After a bit of googling, I found a discussion in which some people stated they can write Traditional at around Sub-4s per character, so I know what to aim for. Mamy dla was kwiaty They say “long of hair, short of mind” They say we lack ideals That we think only about ourselves So today we've got something nice for you We've got flowers for you We've got flowers for you You can't kill a man with a flower Can't do no harm Flowers and love make a great couple Flowers and youth, too We've got flowers for you We've got flowers for you Instead of blood's, we prefer the red of papavers Instead of gun powder, we prefer to smell flowers We want there to be lots of flowers Everywhere We've got flowers for you We've got flowers for you We've got flowers for you We've got flowers for you JP: 長い髪、低い脳って言ってやがる 理想がないって 自分のことだけを考えてるって だから今日お前らに、いいもの上げる お花を上げます お花を上げます 花使って殺せない 傷つけられない 花と恋愛が似合ってる 花と若葉も お花を上げます お花を上げます 血より、ケシの赤が好む 火薬より、花の香りが好きだ 花ばかりの世界がほしい どこでも お花を上げます お花を上げます お花を上げます お花を上げます Na'vi: San ngima nikre, pupa ronsem sìk fol peng San fkwea aysäfpìl ke lu for San snot fpìl nì'aw Kuma fìtrr ayngafpi lu ayoer tstunwi 'u Ayngafpi aysyulang Ayngafpi aysyulang Fasyulang ke tsun tspivang Syulangìl ke ngop kxut Syulang sì tìyawn hu' Syulang sì tì'ewan kop Ayngafpi aysyulang Ayngafpi aysyulang Reypayto loreyuyä tumpin sunu ayoer Pxorna'to kllpxiwllit new hivefi New kifkeyka aysyulang Fratseng Ayngafpi aysyulang Ayngafpi aysyulang Ayngafpi aysyulang Ayngafpi aysyulang 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Ezy Ryder Diglot Senior Member Poland youtube.com/user/Kat Joined 4346 days ago 284 posts - 387 votes Speaks: Polish*, English Studies: Mandarin, Japanese | Message 120 of 144 20 February 2015 at 7:47pm | IP Logged | ||
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The weather gradually starts resembling spring. The snow is melting, leaving only some
residue here and there. The ice covering the pond in the local park starts to slowly disappear as well, and so one can spot a duck or a swan every now and then. I thought I couldn't wait another day, and went out jogging. People of all ages started to come, too. Children meeting with their peers, couples enjoying each other's company, some tweens (and not only) jogging, parents taking a walk with their offspring, and the elderly (one who recognised me, unreciprocatedly, asked me how much weight had I lost insofar). Despite it being a rather public place, as it were; all the faces around belonging to strangers, the music running in my somewhat ambient-noise-reducing earbuds, and secluding myself in my own thoughts, enabled me to experience a bit of solitude for the first time in months. I had to exercise my will power not to finish a kilometre early, but I managed to accomplish my goal of (mere) 5km (~3.1 miles), as the sun was setting over the city. It left me with a feeling of mild satisfaction, exhaustion, and burning in my throat. I missed jogging. I've read physical exercise helps with depression, and counter-intuitively, can be energizing (both in the long-term). So perhaps the previous paragraph wasn't completely unrelated to language learning, as it might affect it indirectly. I've had a thought. Perhaps I shouldn't consider my enthusiasm for each method I've tried perishing after a while, failing to stick with a routine, but simply needing some variety? When planning how to learn, I should provide myself with some alternative ways of improving, or at least maintaining my level, for when I need a change? After all, doing the same thing over and over again for a longer period of time can get to anyone, eventually, doesn't it? This way of looking at it could be less demotivating. 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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