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| js6426 Diglot Senior Member Cambodia Joined 4519 days ago 277 posts - 349 votes  Speaks: English*, Khmer Studies: Mandarin | Message 185 of 266 22 February 2014 at 5:16am | IP Logged |
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Here is my song translation for the Feb challenge. I really enjoyed this challenge although I found it very difficult. I
am sure there are tons of mistakes in here, so corrections are welcome! 走 陪我走了那么久 &nb sp; Walk, walked with me that long 越来越像朋友 more and more like a friend 我为什么不放手 &nb sp; Why can't I let go? 想留没有更好的理由 &nb sp; Can't think of a better reason to stay 因为渴望自由 Because I want freedom 这次你决不回头 &nb sp; This time you can't turn around 你想走我想留 You want to go I want to stay 曾经的温柔 &nb sp; Once gentle 到最后谁也带不走 In the end nobody could lead you 我为了你为了你什么都放弃 For you for you I would give it all up 想忘了你忘了你彻底都忘记 Want to forget you completely forget you 流过血的伤口到底能疼多久 Blood flowing from the wound, in the end it hurts for so long 你我成了不见面的朋友 You and me have become friends that never meet 永远都你我的好老婆! &n bsp; You will always be my good wife 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| lorinth Tetraglot Senior Member Belgium Joined 4273 days ago 443 posts - 581 votes Speaks: French*, English, Spanish, Latin Studies: Mandarin, Finnish | Message 186 of 266 24 February 2014 at 9:33am | IP Logged |
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As I have let January pass without participating in the fist challenge, here's my contribution to the song challenge. The band is Carsick Cars. I like them a lot. They sound and play a bit too much like Sonic Youth but it's very good indie rock, if you like fuzzy guitars and all. The song below is available on Youtube.
Link The song seems to allude to certain events that took place on a certain square 25 years ago, but it's available on a lot of Chinese sites, so I suppose there should be no problem if there's some linguistic discussion about it here. 没有希望的广场 - Square without hope 他整夜的坐在广场里面 The one who'd been sitting in the Square all night 等待着他的救星出现 Waiting for his saviour to appear 他也许就站在你的面前 Maybe he's sitting in front of you 注视着你成长的一切 Watching you grow old from tip to toe 这是一个没有希望的广场 ×4 This is a Square without hope 广场上曾经奔跑的青年 The youth that once ran away on the Square 如今已经失去了他们的信念 Nowadays have lost all faith 而你整夜的坐在广场里面 And you're sitting all night on the Square 等待黑夜夜吞噬着你的一切 Waiting for the dark dark night to swallow you from tip to toe 这是一个没有希望的广场 This is a Square without hope Questions: - I'm not sure about the role of 的 in 他整夜的坐在广场里面 - I'm not sure what's the best way to translate 一切 in 注视着你成长的一切 and 等待黑夜夜吞噬着你的一切, but the songwriter probably wanted to link those two sentences, so they should probably be translated in the same way. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Expugnator Hexaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5165 days ago 3335 posts - 4349 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Norwegian, French, English, Italian, Papiamento Studies: Mandarin, Georgian, Russian | Message 187 of 266 25 February 2014 at 9:21pm | IP Logged |
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Cool song! It sounds quite like Indie rock, even the vocals. It's nice to have non-pop
music for languages such as Chinese. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| proudft Senior Member United States Joined 5152 days ago 124 posts - 156 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Mandarin | Message 188 of 266 25 February 2014 at 9:52pm | IP Logged |
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Yeah, this is so much better than the usual pop stuff. They're on Spotify, too, woot!
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| Crush Tetraglot Senior Member ChinaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5864 days ago 1622 posts - 2299 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Mandarin, Esperanto Studies: Basque | Message 189 of 266 26 February 2014 at 1:03am | IP Logged |
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There is lots of stuff released/distributed on Tenzenmen, you can check out the Chinese section. A popular DIY label in Beijing is Gen Jing Records, you might want to check out some of the bands they've put out, too.
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| Chung Diglot Senior Member Joined 7155 days ago 4228 posts - 8259 votes 20 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Polish, Slovak, Uzbek, Turkish, Korean, Finnish | Message 190 of 266 26 February 2014 at 11:37pm | IP Logged |
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I stumbled on some online resources hosted by the University of Texas in Austin including Cultural Interviews with Chinese-Speaking Professionals which you may find handy for improving your passive abilities in business Mandarin.
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| LangWanderer Diglot Pro Member Australia digintoenglish.com Joined 4537 days ago 74 posts - 97 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: Korean, French, Mandarin Personal Language Map | Message 191 of 266 27 February 2014 at 4:53am | IP Logged |
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Shamefully I haven't logged onto the forum since the January challenge started, so my introduction is rather late. It's a good exercise anyway, though, especially because it's the first time I'm writing anything in Chinese, so here goes.
大家好。我叫Ben。我还没有中文姓。我是澳大 利亚人。 我学汉语学了大概三个月了。我每天学汉语。 很有意思，可我还不懂中国电影，中文书。 我今年要去中国学英文。我想去东北。东北冷 ，可我听说东北人说普通话很清楚。 我喜欢雪外国语。我在大学学了日语，前年在 日本大学学习了一年。因为我会日语，所以写 中国字还可以，可是汉语发音很难。 Hi everyone. My name is Ben. I don't have a Chinese name yet. I'm Australian. I have studied Chinese for about three months. I study Chinese every day. It's lots of fun, but I still can't understand Chinese TV or books. This year I want to go to China to teach English. I'm thinking of going to Dongbei (northeast China). Dongbei is cold, but I've heard that people from Dongbei speak Mandarin very clearly. I like learning foreign languages. I studied Japanese at university, and the year before last I studied for a year at a Japanese university. Because I know Japanese, I am able to write Chinese characters fairly well (is this a passable translation of 还可以?), but Chinese pronunciation is very hard. Now to translate a song for the February challenge before tomorrow！ 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Expugnator Hexaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5165 days ago 3335 posts - 4349 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Norwegian, French, English, Italian, Papiamento Studies: Mandarin, Georgian, Russian | Message 192 of 266 28 February 2014 at 6:10pm | IP Logged |
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Hi team mates! I'm trying to find intermediate textbooks. I'm going to finish Everyday
Chinese Fables and Anedoctes and I need something else thereafter. I have some options, they are limited because they need to have pinyin and translation or I need to have access to an OCR'ed file as well. Here they are: El chino de hoy 2 - I liked the first one, and it's nice to have Spanish as a base language. Open for Business - it lacks pinyin but there is translation and it would be nice to learn business vocabulary. Practical Chinese for Official Purposes - looks nice for the same reasons. Has pinyin and the like. Speak Chinese - volume 1 might be easy in terms of vocabulary but it introduces intermediate grammar. I got a copy with OCR ;) . Contemporary Chinese - from 2 on. #1 is too short and easy. Then there's not much left. I wouldn't take a textbook without pinyin or translation, that'd slow me down considerably. On a sidenote, the textbook isn't even my main resource now. I'm also watching cartoons, educational TV series and reading short texts now and then, and I'm using Chinese Class as my main resource actually (currently Elementary level). 1 person has voted this message useful |
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