Notices tagged with english, page 6

Part-Time or More? The Meaning of Arubaito in Japanese

https://www.japancentric.com/part-time-or-more-the-meaning-of-arubaito-in-japanese/

> The meaning of Arubaito refers to seasonal employment for young people. It also covers temporary employment and project-based engagements.

#Japanese #English #日本語 #英語 #LearningEnglish
#LearningJapanese #日本語の勉強 #英語の勉強 #Japan #JapaneseCulture

My new most favourite Japanese sentence:

このピエロは私の新しい友達です。
This clown is my new friend.

#Japanese #English #日本語 #英語 #LearningEnglish
#LearningJapanese #日本語の勉強 #英語の勉強 #Japan #JapaneseCulture #Duolingo #DuolingoJapanese

My #language history: en > tl > ja > fil > fsl

Currently learning: he and ko

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en: #English
tl: #Tagalog
ja: #Nihongo (#Japanese)
fil: #Filipino
fsl: #FilipinoSignLanguage
he: #Hebrew
ko: #Hangugeo (#Korean)

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For the writing systems:

Of course, Latin writing system is the default for English, Tagalog, and Filipino.

However, we do have a pre-Colonial writing system called #Baybayin (an umbrella term), a.k.a. #Surat and #Suyat.

For Nihongo, I studied #Hiragana and #Katakana but not #kanji

Still learning the writing system for:
* Hebrew
* Korean, which is called #Hangul

The real challenge is using these languages and writing systems. For example, I need a serious refresher for Nihongo, Hiragana, and Katakana. I self learned it when I was six (6) years old. Around mid-20s, I started to forget my Japanese. (And I never learned Kanji, LOL.)

Still, my favourite is (Filipino) #SignLanguage. That I need a refresher too. I think I was Grade 9 when I signed-up for sign language classes (outside school), and that was in the mid-90s.

#Languages, it's fun to learn, be it on your own or formal schooling. The way you analyse and think also shifts with the language you use for communication, so it is important to communicate with the proper language.

Example, in Tagalog and Filipino languages, the English "love" can be translated into "mahal" and "iniibig" (there are others).

"Mahal" is, just, "love". But "iniibig" is deeper and romantic. It can't be directly translated into English (but possible in some Asian languages). The closest we can get in English is "deeply love" but a lot is still lost in translation because "iniibig" is also profound, and forever. You can't just say it to another. We can probably say, "iniibig" can only be used for your soulmate.

So, here in the #Philippines you can say "I love you" in English, but there's no meat to it. It's shallow.

But when you say, "Mahal kita", there's seriousness and meat to it.

However, once you say, "Iniibig kita", it's a whole new level, deep level of love (confession). Anyone who hears it will pause and try to process it.

The way we analyse and think is influenced by the language we use to express it.

"Attempting to prevent accents from changing is like sweeping back an incoming tide with a broom – fruitless and defying nature. Instead, we should embrace linguistic diversity, work to combat accentism (discrimination based on a person’s accent), and accept that accents will always continue to change."

https://theconversation.com/cockney-and-queens-english-have-all-but-disappeared-among-young-people-heres-whats-replaced-them-215478

#accents #dialects #English #speaking #voice #acting #VoiceActing

As #English speakers, we tend to think that terminologies (especially in #tech) is the same in any other language, because after all it is not easy to have a direct translation over something new. Also, for hashtag purposes, keeping the most known terminology is advisable, like for example: #Fediverse.

But, it's a false assumption. If one wants to reach out, we need to find how the locals actually call it.

In Korean, I've seen these:
* “연합 우주에” / #연합우주에 #연합_우주에
* “연합우주” / #연합우주

Roughly translates to English as “Union Universe” or “United Space”.

Have you seen other translations of “Fediverse”?

#Lang #Language #Translation

Well it's news I guess:

Hey, have you eaten the news? – Japanese “noodle newspaper” comes with writing on the soba – SoraNews24 -Japan News-

https://soranews24.com/2023/10/29/hey-have-you-eaten-the-news-japanese-noodle-newspaper-comes-with-writing-on-the-soba/amp/

> Taste-testing Nagano’s Soba Shimbun.

#Japanese #English #日本語 #英語 #LearningEnglish
#LearningJapanese #日本語の勉強 #英語の勉強 #Japan #JapaneseCulture

Nice little Japanese clipart website:

ツカッテ | 商用OKの無料イラスト素材サイト

https://tsukatte.com/

> 無料のイラスト素材サイト。 商用可能、登録不要で使えます。

#Japanese #English #日本語 #英語 #LearningEnglish
#LearningJapanese #日本語の勉強 #英語の勉強 #Japan #JapaneseCulture

I've always read #HTTP as “aitch tee tee pee” and used “an” to prefix an indefinite article to HTTP, but today I saw a sentence with “a HTTP.” Is there a different way to read it among native #English speakers?

"Why does England, a European country, speak English, an American language instead of another foreign European language?"

https://www.quora.com/Why-does-England-a-European-country-speak-English-an-American-language-instead-of-another-foreign-European-language 😂

#Quora #English #America #Language

Fediverse! Where do you buy #audiobooks? Preferably #DRM-free. I am looking for audio|#books in #german & #english

Best #English in #SaudiArabia

:fedi: The join Fediverse Wiki :fedi:
as of July 21, 2023

🎉 We moved to a new server!

:joinfediversewiki: The #JoinFediverseWiki recently moved to a new server in Vienna, Austria powered by the #FediverseFoundation.
There was an issue with newly uploaded pictures, but @fossie, who also migrated the wiki, fixed it.

:firefish: All pages on #Calckey were edited to reflect the rebranding to #Firefish. Translated pages don't all show the rebranding yet.

:fedi: We have pages on 18 Fediverse projects. Plus there are drafted but unfinished pages on:
#Threads
#Foundkey
#Drupal

🗣️ There are 9 active languages, but many translations missing:
#English
#français
#Deutsch
#日本語
#italiano
#español
#português-do-Brasil
#Russian
#עברית
#Korean

You can always start a translation to a new language too.

Please join the editorial team of the wiki and help editing/translating the pages. We have lots of todos. See: https://joinfediverse.wiki/Join_the_Fediverse:Todos

We at #TUXEDO are proud of our friendly and competent #support for #hardware and #software, which we offer to our customers in #German and #English.
#linux
https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en/Tuxedo-Support-Guidelines.tuxedo

@HebdoCubes

(it's been a while since I last did my FR hebdoCubes in EN)

"... And then I woke up."
"Haha, you always have the weirdest dreams. Right, breakfast is ready."
"I suppose it's gruel?"
"Well, yes. Maybe in your dreams something else still grows that we can make food out of, but here, that's it."
"Yuck."

#hebdoCubes #MicroFiction #English #sfff

#writever Ashes

"What will you do with the ashes?" asked the priest.
"Nothing, I hope," I said.
On the funeral pyre, the body of my beloved straightened, rose, and started walking toward me. The crowd fled, screaming. I didn't. There are perks to being in love with an elemental.

#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStory / #SmallStories / #FlashFiction #english

#writever Interpretation

"I am the human-robot interpreter."
"But robots understand all of the human language."
"And there lies the problem. You have no idea how many meanings a human phrase can have. My job is to restate it so that it has only one."

#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStory / #SmallStories / #FlashFiction #english

#writever Sarcophagus

I was quite fine with ferrying a sarcophagus for twelve days all by myself in my spaceship until its crate cracked open and I learned that my customer was not an Egyptologist but a Xenologist and that "sarcophagus" is greek for "meat eater".

#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStory / #SmallStories / #FlashFiction #english

#writever Megalith

It was just a megalith, which Ug had started to cut, and later Ug's children. Their successive descendants had smoothed and polished it, until it had become the blackened block we now believe to be alien. As for its proportions... that was pure chance.

#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStory / #SmallStories / #FlashFiction #english

#writever Glyph

"This rune carried a spell," said the Sorceress. "You should have lost all will upon looking at it."
"Ah," said R42. "My optical preprocessor could not find a Unicode glyph that matched it, so it had sent it as 'meaningless scribble' to my brain."

#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStory / #SmallStories / #FlashFiction #english