Hi, I'm Marcella. [Warning: The entry this time may involve more analysis of subtitles.]
Comic songs appear in all languages. However, original ones are not easy to find. However, recently, there's an eye-catching comedy duo who has become a hot topic with the following song.
This version provides Chinese subtitles. However, some of the translation are wrong.
For example:
1) the title, "The Fox" is translated into 狐狸哥哥, which means "Brother Fox" in English. May be the interpreter did it on purpose to make it sound nice in Chinese.
2) The lyrics, " And the elephant goes toot" and "And fish go blub". In fact, there's no exact onomatopoeia for elephants and fish in Chinese. However, the interpreter translated the sound of elephants into 『嘟』 and fish into 『哭』. In this line, transliteration may be a better choice, like this version of translated lyrics.
In the chorus part of the song, there's no meaning for the lyrics, the interpreter used transliteration to present that.
The singers are Bård and Vegard Ylvisåker, the brothers formed a comedy duo namely Ylvis, which is from their Surname. The Norwegian brothers sing in English and they sing all kinds of genres. The mocking songs and the sudden change of atmosphere of the songs are amazing.
Here are other songs sung by them, with Chinese subtitles.
Ylvis- Jan Egeland
This is a mocking song to Jan Egeland, the United Nations Humanitarian Official.
Examples of errors in translation:
1)"Grey hair" is translated into 白髮,which means white hair, instead of 『灰髮』
2)“Golf” is translated into 小白球, which means little white ball, instead of 『高爾夫球』
The interpreter keeps the name of the persons mentioned in the song in English, which makes this a mix-code subtitle. Some of the translated lyrics used vocabularies that involve personal feelings which it is not carried in the original song. Slang in Chinese( in Taiwan dialect), like 甲甲, meaning gay in Taiwanese sayings.
I will introduce to you other songs of Ylvis next time! Thanks for reading.
TBC.
2013年11月5日 星期二
2013年10月30日 星期三
HATSUNE MIKU 初音未來(初音ミク)
Have you heard of Hatsune Miku? She is a famous singer in Japan. Maybe i should say: she is the vocaloid(虛擬偶像) in Japan.. :D
A) Yes, I have heard of Hatsune Miku. -> Q1
B) No, I have not heard of Hatsune Miku. -> please watch the video below -> Q1
Q1) Do you still remember what is your reaction when you first meet with Hatsune Miku's work?
I am not the fan of her. Actually Hatsune Miku's voice is quite beautiful but it is not the type of voice I like. I just listen for one of her songs and never listen to her song again. Although i am not really obsessed with her songs, I love her appearance and her long hair. :D
Are you be interested in knowing the elderly and kids' reaction to her? I have got some video from youtube about this. \ (> A <) /
Kids' react:
Elders' react:
Technology is really amazing. People use it to create vocaloids and even hold a concert of her. We can see that the action of the vocaloids on the stage is really smooth and vivid. They really sang like a real singers on the stage with dancing. Human's creativity is really powerful. Isn't it?
by Hedy
The Different Expressions Between Mainland Chinese and HongKong Chinese
Hi! I'm David. Since I have been to HK for two months,I have found some different expressions between Mainland Chinese and HongKong Chinese . Here are my ''RESEARCH FINDINGS'' . :)
Having different words of the same meaning
Mainland HongKong
空调 冷气机
钱包 银包、荷包
公交车 巴士
出租车 的士
扣篮 入樽
草莓 士多啤梨（口语）
摩托车 电单车
圆珠笔 原子笔
吃火锅 打边炉
欧冠 欧联
欧联 欧霸
洗手夜 碱液
沐浴露 碱液
胶片 菲林
橡皮擦 擦胶
下课 落堂
教室 班房
服务员 侍应（正式）
逃课 走堂
志愿者 义工
警察 差人（非正式）
Having different meanings of the same word
电话：内地日常语言中，通常专指固定电话，不用来表示移动电话（手机）。在香港，即可用来表达这两种事物。
欧联：这是个体育词语。可让我和香港roommate纠结好一会儿。在香港，这个词指的是欧洲足球俱乐部最顶级的比赛，而在内地，这个词指的是次一级的比赛。最顶级的比赛内地叫做‘’欧冠‘’。（可参见上文同义异词部分）。
Having the same meanings with reversed Chinese charecters
Mainland HongKong
夜宵 宵夜
素质 质素
It's not difficult to find some reasons to this phenomenon. In Mainland, most people use Putonghua. And we know there are different grammar rules between Putonghua and Cantonese. Also, HongKong was deeply affected by UK culture. And the most essential reason is that the two regions have different political and cultural system.
In the end, I wish this blog can help you have a better communication with your Mainland or HongKong friends.
Hi! I'm David. Since I have been to HK for two months,I have found some different expressions between Mainland Chinese and HongKong Chinese . Here are my ''RESEARCH FINDINGS'' . :)
Having different words of the same meaning
Mainland HongKong
空调 冷气机
钱包 银包、荷包
公交车 巴士
出租车 的士
扣篮 入樽
草莓 士多啤梨（口语）
摩托车 电单车
圆珠笔 原子笔
吃火锅 打边炉
欧冠 欧联
欧联 欧霸
洗手夜 碱液
沐浴露 碱液
胶片 菲林
橡皮擦 擦胶
下课 落堂
教室 班房
服务员 侍应（正式）
逃课 走堂
志愿者 义工
警察 差人（非正式）
Having different meanings of the same word
电话：内地日常语言中，通常专指固定电话，不用来表示移动电话（手机）。在香港，即可用来表达这两种事物。
欧联：这是个体育词语。可让我和香港roommate纠结好一会儿。在香港，这个词指的是欧洲足球俱乐部最顶级的比赛，而在内地，这个词指的是次一级的比赛。最顶级的比赛内地叫做‘’欧冠‘’。（可参见上文同义异词部分）。
Having the same meanings with reversed Chinese charecters
Mainland HongKong
夜宵 宵夜
素质 质素
It's not difficult to find some reasons to this phenomenon. In Mainland, most people use Putonghua. And we know there are different grammar rules between Putonghua and Cantonese. Also, HongKong was deeply affected by UK culture. And the most essential reason is that the two regions have different political and cultural system.
In the end, I wish this blog can help you have a better communication with your Mainland or HongKong friends.
2013年10月24日 星期四
Nightingale from Demi lovato
Hi, I am Hedy
\(^O^)/
Do you remember what I have shared about the
song ‘Skyscraper’? Today I would like to share another song from Demi lovato.
Here we go! ‘Nightingale’!
Lyrics(both English and Chinese) can be found
in the following link:
Demi wrote this song for hereslf. She said it
is a personal song. She miss her friend who was died when Demi was 13 years
old. Sometime Demi think she can still feel this friend and this friend like
the nightingale (or guardian angel) for her.
Please watch the video from 1:14 to 1:35
Things happened are always irreversible. What we can do is treasuring
people and things around us, especially our life. Don’t commit to suicide even
though you feel frustrate and desperate. When you feel stressed or hopeless, please
watch this video. Listen to the song :D
My best friend shared this
video to me. Isn’t the characters in the video very cute?
2013年10月23日 星期三
Winter Sonata 冬季戀歌
Hi there, I am Marcella.
It's getting cold in Hong Kong. Winter's coming!! I started listening to winter songs again this week. And I discovered that one of my favorite songs have many different versions in different languages!!
I was really amazed by the compatibility of the melody! I have to admit that all the versions are so beautiful that I can spend a whole day listening to them without getting bored of them！
Now, let me introduce the songs to you.
This is the Japanese version and the original "Yuki no Hana", meaning snowflake. This version is
『雪の華』, in Romanji, "Nun-uikkoch", also meaning
This song has been so popular that it was sung in the Voice kids in Korea. Listen to their angelic voices.
The Putonghua
Lyrics: Chinese
泳兒 『花無雪』
This is the Cantonese version of Yuki no Hana. The song is sung by Vincy, and the name of the song means flower without snow. The song is about the persona breaking up with her boyfriend.
Hayley Westenra --- Snow Flower
This is the English version of Yuki no Hana. This story of the song sticks quite close to the original. However, the love of the persona is the strongest and she is very sure that she and her partner will stay together forever.
Lyrics: English
This singer has performed a famous Chinese love song月亮代表我的心--The moon represents my heart, during the opening ceremony of the World Game in Taiwan on July 16, 2009. In this performance, she sang in Putonghua.
Hayley Westenra is from New Zealand singer who has an angelic voice. She has sung songs of different genres, from folk songs to pop songs. She also sings in different languages, English, Irish, Welsh, Italian, German, French, Portuguese, Latin, Japanese, Mandarin Chinese, and Māori. Her Putonghua was quite fluent and standard.
It's getting cold in Hong Kong. Winter's coming!! I started listening to winter songs again this week. And I discovered that one of my favorite songs have many different versions in different languages!!
I was really amazed by the compatibility of the melody! I have to admit that all the versions are so beautiful that I can spend a whole day listening to them without getting bored of them！
Now, let me introduce the songs to you.
『雪の華』
This is the Japanese version and the original "Yuki no Hana", meaning snowflake. This version is
sung by Mika Nakashima. It is an all-time winter favorite song and has won a lot of awards.
Cover versions are sung by many famous singers. The song expressed love and happiness of the
persona to her boyfriend/ partner when they are walking side by side on a snowy winter day.
『雪の華』, in Romanji, "Nun-uikkoch", also meaning
"snow flake".The greatest differences between the Japanese version and the Korean
version is that the Korean version is sung by 박효신,(Park Hyo Shin),a male singer.
Moreover, the persona of the song is a man. This song has been used as the them
e song of a TV drama, 『미안하다, 사랑한다』, in English, " I'm sorry, I love you".
The story told by in the lyrics is more less the same as the Japanese version, except
it's in the view of a male.
This song has been so popular that it was sung in the Voice kids in Korea. Listen to their angelic voices.
Lyrics can be found here: Chinese
The Putonghua
version has a rather sad theme.The persona is worrying about the relationship
with her boyfriend but she still has hope that they are still in love with each other.
Lyrics: Chinese
泳兒 『花無雪』
This is the Cantonese version of Yuki no Hana. The song is sung by Vincy, and the name of the song means flower without snow. The song is about the persona breaking up with her boyfriend.
Hayley Westenra --- Snow Flower
This is the English version of Yuki no Hana. This story of the song sticks quite close to the original. However, the love of the persona is the strongest and she is very sure that she and her partner will stay together forever.
Lyrics: English
This singer has performed a famous Chinese love song月亮代表我的心--The moon represents my heart, during the opening ceremony of the World Game in Taiwan on July 16, 2009. In this performance, she sang in Putonghua.
Hayley Westenra is from New Zealand singer who has an angelic voice. She has sung songs of different genres, from folk songs to pop songs. She also sings in different languages, English, Irish, Welsh, Italian, German, French, Portuguese, Latin, Japanese, Mandarin Chinese, and Māori. Her Putonghua was quite fluent and standard.
2013年10月16日 星期三
Free-to-air TV license
‘Ricky Wong Wai-kay (王維基) was
extraordinarily low-key yesterday after commerce secretary Gregory So Kam-leung
pronounced the death sentence on his application for a free-to-air TV license.’
(The Standard)
Do you know who is Wong Wai-kay? Are you disappointed with the
government’s decision on not giving the free-on-air TV license to HKTV(香港電視)? Or don’t really care about this
news? I believe you must hear the name ‘Wong Wai-kay’ in these days. Maybe you have no feeling on
this issue, but I would like to share some information and my feeling on this
hot issue in HK.
If you flipped over today’s newspaper, I believe
you must bump into the hot topic about the free-on-air TV license. To be honest,
I am quite disappointed about the HKSAR government’s decision on not giving the
free-on-air TV license to HKTV. Most of us know, HKTV has prepared for the
operation of the free-on-air HKTV for almost 3 years, but all preparation the
HKTV staff made in vain. They don’t have the license now, or maybe forever.
Actually I was looking forward for the TV programs made by HKTV since he applied
for the license. The government’s decision disappointed many HongKongers.
I really
want to know why the government give the license to i-Cable's Fantastic Television(奇妙電視) and
now’s Hong Kong
Television Entertainment Company Limited(香港電視娛樂). The Standard reported: ‘Greg So Kam-leung(蘇錦良), Secretary for
Commerce and Economic Development, said the application by City Telecom-owned
HKTV was dismissed after the Chief Executive-in-Council had considered a basket
of factors and accepted a consultancy report that the market could not
accommodate five TV stations.’ What is the so-called ‘a basket of
factors’? This is what all Hong Kong people, and mostly the HKTV staff, want to
know.
The
government’s decision on not giving the free-on-air TV license to HKTV raises public
anger. People think it is unfair of the government to reject the application of HKTV for the license. The government must tell the detail of’ a basket of factors’. Maybe this can relieve public
anger if the explanation is strongly persuasive.
News about this issue:
2013年10月15日 星期二
English in Subway??
Hi! I'm Marcella! The topic of today is this:
This logo might be familiar to you (or not). This is a fast food shop originated in the US, featuring sandwiches, especially subway sandwiches!! Yum yum<3
I tried my first bite of Subway sandwiches last summer in Central. It tasted good. However, what I think is the most eye-catching part is when you order for your food. My friend told me that I have to order in English! That really shocked me. I looked at the people behind the front desk and the cashier, they are all foreigners. I tried to listen to the customers in front of me in the queue while I was struggling whether I want tomatoes or not. And the result is YES, everyone uses English here in Hong Kong Subway. When it comes to my turn, I was so freaked out that my friend had to do all the ordering for me :p
I don't think I am the only one who has been freaked out by the need of switching code in Subway. Although Hong Kong is a bilingual society, it's not common to speak English when we order food. Well, sometimes in Starbucks, we will use English chunks, stating the names of coffe/ drink or the size that you want. But that's totally different from using English the whole way through the ordering process. Like me, people may feel uncomfortable.
I did some research online, and I found somebody like me LOL
What she complained about is sensible. We should understand that not everyone knows English.
There are pros and cons using English in subway.
Pros:1) Subway can keep its own traditions and characteristics of being an American fast food shop
2) The way of ordering indicates the "class" of Subway, the target consumers and the quality of
food and also the price
Cons: 1) Those who are not good at English dare not order in subway
2) Tourists (for example: from mainland China) may not has as high level of English as Hong
Kong residents
3) It's like setting a basic requirement for buying subway and discriminating those who doesn't
know English
Well I was only focusing on the Subway in Hong Kong which I've been to last year. And the pros and cons are just my own opinions. In fact, I've heard that some newly opened shops of subway has employed shop-assistance who can speak Cantonese and Putonghua, which can be a good news to some people.
If you really have troubles ordering your subway, go and check these articles out! They are the instructions you can follow when you are ordering your food! LOL Just read through it, pick your favourite and then order!
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