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Drawing One Piece Characters

Since I’m now getting into drawing in a big way (drawing most days) I thought I’d ask my friend what character they’d like me to draw for their birthday. They requested Chopper from One Piece, having read the series a lot I was more than happy to oblige! Chopper Chopper – reference image This is the reference image I used, I’m not nearly good enough to draw this well yet, and I am trying to…

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Drawing your Favourite Manga Badly: Death Note

Not demoralised by the quality of my last set of drawings, I’ve decided to act on my ongoing old promise to complete drawings for any manga that anyone asked for. When I span the randomiser it landed on Death Note which was suggested by Moyatori in response to one of the first drawing posts I made here. That was an unbelievable 6 years ago, sorry for taking so long! Why upload my bad drawings…

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Drawing your Manga Badly: Blue Lock

That’s right, I’m bringing back this long forgotten series where I draw your favourite manga badly, because I can’t draw it well! This time I’ve chosen Blue Lock, as it’s my own favourite manga, but I will be revisiting all the suggestions I got before in due course. If you have any drawing requests please let me know! Isagi – Don’t you dare mock football! This image is iconic in my mind for…

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The best advice can be found everywhere

Nothing that I will say here is new or original, just very easily ignored. This is, as the title suggests, things that everyone knows anyway. The kind of advice I’m talking about is that you should eat healthily, exercise regularly and stay active, get sunlight, maintain a good sleep schedule, see friends regularly, reduce screen time etc. All of these things are really important, but it feels…

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I saw Count Binface Live!

Last week I was lucky enough to meet the intergalactic space warrior Count Binface at his show in Sheffield! For those who don’t know, Count Binface is a UK politician, who is also an alien from the planet SigmaIX, come to celebrate democracy, and put Earth on the star map. I’m not joking about him being a politician, the UK allows for anyone who meets their requirements to run for parliament,…

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Brother Sleeping on my Top Bunk English Lyrics 睡在我上铺的兄弟歌词

This song is widely considered to be a classic, iconic in its own era, yet it was written in just an hour. I found about this song when my favourite band Escape Plan (逃跑计划) made a cover of it that was so mysterious and amazing, I had to listen to it so many times in a row. They really made it their own, to a point where I wouldn’t even put it in the same genre as the original, which I don’t like…

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Outsider to Outsider: Reflecting on Camus’s Absurdism in Manga Form

I have always valued the opinions of outsiders, sometimes even more than those with actual knowledge. They tend to have a unique perspective because their opinion is just their raw beliefs, uninfluenced by those around them. When it comes to Albert Camus, I am also an outsider. I have not read any of his works or researched absurdism. But since I value the opinion of outsiders so much, I thought…

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The 4 Ways you can Understand any Sentence in a Foreign Language

When you are learning a language it’s all to common to encounter a sentence that you can’t understand, but translate can’t seem to understand it either. Maybe it’s a complicated word or grammar, or a concept that you just can’t understand. Don’t worry this guide is here to help. Here are the 4 ways you can understand any sentence. 1. Find the foreign language definition This is likely the most…

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Is this love? Escape Plan 逃跑计划 English Lyrics

This song is the opener to Escape Plan’s first album World (世界) and I feel it sets the stage quite well for the whole album. It noticeably contains a lot of English already, which is possibly why I’m the first to translate it, but I feel it is interesting enough to be worth writing about. It’s only four verses to translate so it didn’t take a long time either way. Music…

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Duolingo: A Game-Changer for Casual Learners, But a Trap for Fluency Seekers

Duolingo turns language learning into a game, for better or worse. It has changed dramatically since my last review so an update is definitely in order. As I know Chinese already I was dragged against my will into dove into the Japanese course using Chinese as the native language because why not take advantage of my existing knowledge? The Positives That Still Remain Brilliant Addictive…

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I translated 32 Chinese songs into English, this is what I learned

The May translation challenge is now over! I managed to succeed and now have a lot of lyrics to existing popular songs, and also managed to create lyrics for songs so obscure no other English translation existed! I hadn’t really translated anything before so it was a good learning experience. Songs are a lot more difficult to translate than book passages because you have to pay attention to the…

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听妈妈的话 Listen to Mum by Jay Chou English Lyrics

On the last day of this translation challenge, I’m continuing the theme of parental love. This time it’s a song from the most popular artist in China! This is somehow the first song of his that I’ve translated (mainly because 告白气球 was very strange to translate) so I hope that you enjoy! Music Video Lyrics 小朋友 你是否有很多问号为什么 别人在那看漫画我却在学画画 对着钢琴说话别人在玩游戏我却靠在墙壁背我的…

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盲点 Blind spot English lyrics

A kind of love that is commonly sang about in Chinese music is parental love. Unfortunately it doesn’t often get the same attention in the west and I think that’s a shame. Here is my translation of the song blind sport which has an overwhelming focus on the love parents have for their…

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可不可以 English Lyrics

说好带你流浪而我却半路返航坠落自责的海洋发现离不开你我开始决定回去你已不在原地我可以接受你的所有所有小脾气我可以带你去吃很多很多好东西我可以偶尔给你带来带来小甜蜜就像前几年那样每天都会给你制造很多惊喜你的心 伤我能治愈我的快乐也只有你能给予我们就别再分离可不可以 和你在一起我们之间有太多回忆爱上了你 没什么道理只是刚好情窦初开遇到你不希望我的未来不是你只愿意和你永远不分离趁我还没 有过保质期趁你还愿意三年的回忆我如何抹去能不能再拾起永远在一起还没有过期我们就别再分离可不可以 和你在一起我们之间有太多回忆爱上了你 没什么道理只是刚好情窦初开遇到你不希望我的未来不是你只愿意和你永远不分离趁我还没有过保质期趁你还愿意可不可以 和你在一起我们之间 有太多回忆爱上了你 没什么道理只是刚好情窦初开遇到你不希望我的未来不是你只愿意和你永远不分离趁我还没 有过保质期趁你还愿意趁我还没 有过保质期趁你还…

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My Secret G.E.M English lyrics 我的秘密英文歌词

When I first started learning Chinese I didn’t understand any of the lyrics except for a few words. At this time the song that I liked the most was based on sound alone, so this song being the one I liked the most says a lot about its sound. I really love the flow of this song and hope that it still sounds great to those who don’t know any Chinese at all. Enjoy! Lyrics 最近一直很好心情…

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Nothing is more unforgettable than you Escape Plan Lyrics 没什么比你更难忘英文歌词

I often like imagining the worlds that songs paint. There isn’t enough time to explain everything properly, so you have to imagine it for yourself and fill in the gaps. In the end you get a strong feeling of how it felt at the time without knowing the details, often leading to more intrigue and emotion than if you knew everything completely. This song is a really good example of this, I hope you…

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一万次悲伤 English Lyrics - Escape Plan

The song can be found in the YouTube video below, however I did manage to track down a rare music video which can be found on a different site here if that interests you. This song is about experiencing great pain but still fighting through it. The first line of the chorus was translated as “Ten thousand sorrows” because it is easier to sing in time with the original, but a more direct…