#it's very funny to read vietnamese subtitles

[purenguyening]

Right now my endurance and reading ability can't watch a full anime episode with Vietnamese subtitles yet. But I do think it's quite fun for me to be able to read short clips that span for about two minutes and be able to understand 80% of it.

Basically my ability right now is that I can read it, but I still need the time to extract what it means. The duration subtitles display is still a little too short for me to be able to read and understand. I think it'll get better with enough time and consistency.

I just kind of wish I wasn't beating myself too hard and allowed myself the patience I allow others when developing a new skill...

[modgirlyreposts-revamped]

More from my adventures watching TADC in different languages:

The translated-to-English Japanese captions (I can't read or speak Japanese) say that Baron Mildenhall says "how are you" as opposed to "how's your wife" which tells me that there was probably an error translating it, and initially I wondered if he was actually saying "how is she", but I don't... think that personal pronouns really work like that in Japanese from what I've heard?

The Korean dub implies that Kinger's hearing is going because he's getting older (he says he can't hear as much "these days") which is funny because the fucker's in his 40s

My favorite version of "how's your wife Kinger" has to be the Spanish version. She sounds almost manic when she says it (probably due to the much more wordy nature of Spanish compared to English), also, "y tu esposa, Kinger" rolls off the tongue really well.

According to the auto-translation, in Japanese, Caine calls the cast "sweet cuties" at the end, in Korean the phrase gets... entirely lost in the captions, but given that Jax says "don't call us milkmaids" I'm assuming he at least called them that, in Indonesian he calls them "noisy milk cats", in Thai, the auto-translation completely loses it and says he says "welcome back to the girl who milks the cows and meows", in French it's "my purring rombieres" which a google search says means "old bags", in Ukranian he calls them "my cream cats", in Filipino it's very audibly milkmaids, but apparently "squealing milkmaids" which is. odd, in Portuguese it's "my favorite milkers" (favorite milkmaids maybe?), in Hindi he calls them "my lovely kittens", Vietnamese is "milk cats", Hungarian is "my flock of meowing bunnies" and Arabic is "my little puppies". Everything else aside from Polish and Spanish ("skibidi sigmas" and "milky little furries") either translated back to "my meowing milkmaids" or was visibly a series of cognates that was obviously going to translate back to "my meowing milkmaids"

My favorite remains "my milky little furries" but "my purring old bags" has earned its spot

The translations are inconsistent between whether Kinger spent 4 or 7 years studying computer science, which a friend pointed out is the difference between the length needed for any degree and a possible length for a doctorate, but does indicate that the specific number of years might not mean as much as people have suggested.

I think it might be that I understand the language okay, but I did find myself appreciating the Spanish dub quite a lot (with captions ofc, I'm not good at understanding it when spoken fast and was basically reading the episode). My favorite voices for the characters remain the English ones, but as you said, Kinger's Japanese voice is great-

Absolutely love seein' what Caine calls them in all the other languages, it's hilarious no matter what-

That last part was me wit' the French dub, I took like 2 years of it so I could understand bits an' pieces of it but still mainly relied on readin' the subtitles to see what exactly was being said, and my other fav voice from the dubs is probably Pomni's voice in the Chinese dub, although I may be biased since I'm actually Chinese myself, I jus' think she sounds adorable in it- 🥺🥺❤️💛💙

[kafechewcom]

My general guide to learn Any Language in 30 hours

This is my general guide to learn Any Language in 30 hours across a month, i.e 1 hour per day.

Phycho-physiological State Preparation

Motivation: Want < Need (Genuine Desire)

Commitment to learn

Set the right expectation/goal: To be able to express and understandable by local, not being perfect. 

Have a practical and specific short-term (3 months) aims:

Can have a 5 minutes conversation fully in foreign language with native speaker OR

can travel totally using local language 

able to understand half of the foreign language movie without subtitle.

Daily goal: something can be achieved immediately or by today.

Be confidence & focus on the positive from the starts (not negative like “it is hardest language..) AND nothing to be shy.

Be happy, relaxed (Take a very deep breath), curious and specifically to be tolerant of ambiguity (forget about perfect)

Mistakes are a natural part of learning progress, accept that they will happen and know this doesn’t prevent you from communicating (the main objective)

Luck, talent or genes is not an excuse. you can overcome challenges to reach your goals

Forecast milestones (8 units)

sugar high @ 1st unit

immediate drop and low point @ 2nd unit 

rapid progress after low point, followed by a plateau @ 3rd unit

inflection point @ unit 6

fluency @ unit 8

For cramming: choose something that improving exponentially, instead of incrementally.

Instant Conversation Preparation

Basic pronunciation: Vowels, Consonants 

Scrap the foreign alphabets, how it sounds.

Tool: Forvo – Crowdsourced Pronunciation

Portuguese: real -> he\y ou\ch -> /heou/!!! 

Be-careful, this contradicted with No-English rule

Copy the Face. Hear how it feels and feels how it sound

Backchaining : Go backward. Say the end of the word, then add one letter at a time until you can say the whole thing.

Example: vzdrognu -> nu -> gnu -> ognu -> rognu -> drognu -> zdrognu -> vzdrognu

Cheat code for tongue twisters

Physiological training (keep hearing the sounds and Listen a lot, the rhythms, patterns) - Ears and Mouth training for new sounds with Mimic Method by singing target language songs, syllable by syllable.

Language Matrix (Tony Marsh Method) - Choose vocabulary (verb) around a relevant conversational theme, i.e. Basic, Self-Intro, Food, Travel, ... https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1RzZ6zfIzddM_GMgo0PpCBPZ_oNxFryd2rnwNEnE-llk/edit?usp=sharing 

Basic Grammar Deconstruction with Tim Ferris’s 13 sentences 

The apple is red.

It is John’s apple.

I give John the apple.

We give him the apple.

He gives it to John.

She gives it to him.

Is the apple red ?

The apples are red.

I must give it to him !

I want to give it to her !

I’m going to know tomorrow.

I can’t eat the apple.

I have eaten the apple. 

Language matrix + grammar/structure cheat sheet = MED (Minimum Effective Dose) = condense the most important 20% information down into a digestible, easily graspable one pager. 

Speaking

You will never be ready. Just use your new language as a Tool to communicate from DAY 1

Skip through any grammar or vocabulary that is not essential for communication at your current level and learn what you need to speak without hesitating too much.

Game of Taboo. Instead of “Umm…” awkwardly or abruptly starting to speak a language, you can ease yourself in by first throwing in a few words that you know, then using the foreign language structure with some of your native language, and eventually making this a majority of the target language. This may be “imperfect”, but it will get you into the flow you need to be familiar with a language.

Conversation connector.

Rather than abruptly ending the conversation when you give your answer, you are softly bouncing it back at them and inviting them to continue their end of a conversation

agreeing/disagreeing

opening

general fillers

qualifying

switching

Vocabulary Tool Box/Plan

Focus on getting the meaning First (before the words) -> Body Language

Start Mixing

10 verbs x 10 nouns x 10 adjectives = 1000 possible phrases

Focus on the Core.

1000 words = 85% coverage (English) only learn the most frequent used words and phrases.

Directions and Prepositions

the Days of the Week

Pronouns (you, that, me)

Common Verbs & Adjectives (give, hot)

Simple conversation

what is this?

how do you say?

I don’t understand…

repeat that please

Glue words (but, and, even though)

Encoding/recalling with Anki Spaced Repetition System (SRS) Flash Cards

Many simple cards are better than a complex card

Always ask for one correct answer at a time

Don’t translate. Image association. Direct connect the targeted language to mental images.

Level of processing: structure, sound, concept (abstract/concrete details) & personal connection

Word, Picture, Pronunciation (IPA), Recording, Personal Connection

Mnemonic Imagery Game: we’re good in remembering images especially violent, sexual and/or funny

Example: masculine = exploding! // feminine = catch fire // neuter = shatter like a glass (裂开）

Sentences Mnemonic -> PAO: Person (Grammar Form) -Action (Masculine/Feminine) -Object

use all the senses: touch, smell, look, taste, listen/speak (sound), feel

Personal connection

Concrete Nouns: When’s the last time I saw my mere (mother)?

Abstract Nouns: How has the economie (economy) affected me?

Adjectives: Am I timide (timid)? If not, do I know someone who is?

Verbs: Do I like to courir (run)? Do I know someone else who does?

Practise

Self practice/rehearsal/visualise (acts as 2 people talking) during any free time (bath)

Get a Language Parent (guru, mentor)

works to understand what you are saying

does not correct mistakes

confirms understanding by using correct language

use words learners knows

Get a language buddy that the best language in common is the target language you want to learn (talk with korean who don’t know chinese, english, the languages i knew)

Commit no English rule… only speak the target language to the buddy even though have to pull out dictionary or translation OR body language!

Remember When you first Understand the Message, you will unconsciously acquire the language

Immersion & Exposure EVERYDAY… listen to foreign language song … or watch foreign videos

No subtitle allowed, even targeted language because we don’t improve our listening.

no comedy… at least for beginning. you don’t understand the slang, punchline

tv series better than movie. you can figure out who and what’s going on in the first 1-2 episodes and enjoy for the later.

read about the synopsis and summaries by episodes beforehand (Native, then Targeted Language)

vocabularies used

characters

plots

Make a Public Language Log. Documenting your progress (struggles or …). Get encouraged or pressured from others.

Speaking to Natives. Just Ask! Could we speak your language? I’d really like to practise!” (and say it in the actual language, of course!) most of the time they will be very happy to oblige! “why I am learning the language”

Changed language to Vietnamese

Facebook Language Setting 

Macbook

Handphone 

Frequency

All learning is physically limited; you have a finite number of neurotransmitters (for memory), and a finite amount of REM and non-REM sleep (required for consolidation).

based on Von Restorff Effect: 1 Hour each session 

20 minutes: Learning 1 while doing simple physical exercise or simply move your body (increase neuron connections)

5 minutes: shifting content, something unique than Learning 1 & 2 (i.e. throw in some new vocabulary or concept) and by moving from “words to phrases” (i.e. work through an example exercise).

20 minutes: Learning 2

10-15 minutes break: stretching & push ups

Review = daily blog 

Stakes : create real consequences and guarantee I follow the program.

Don’t eat meal every day until you’ve accomplished a certain task (meal is your reward)

Reference: 1. http://remotemanifesto.com/the-spanish-in-30-days-experiment-conclusion/ 2. https://medium.com/@matthiasak/my-art-of-learning-5f43d8fdbfd4

[joeyarnoldvn]

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English Class Notes 2017-05-15 Monday Night 6 PM at Opera Vincom HCM with Teacher JoeyArnoldVN

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What is science? Is science part of religion? Is religion a spiritual philosophy? Is science a physical natural philosophy? What is philosophy? Why is philosophy so fundamental and crucial and root and deep and vital to understanding morality and perspectives in regards to cultures and society and humanity within sociology and anthropology and psychology and the what and how and why to everything people do, think, say, feel, believe, create, keep, get rid, spread, stop, and everything in where we were, are, are going, in what we did, are doing, and will do, and everything else, and what is this all about?

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Loyal

Loyalty

Customers

Exception

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I had a fun time Friday night

It was funny

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It was raining for a long time or it was raining all day

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I cannot refuse them

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I had to drink beer the last few days or so

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I gained 2 kilograms of weight, of maybe just fat, liquid, but maybe not muscle

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I was exercising at the gym all weekend

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It was raining and the streets are still wet

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I put on a jacket because it is cooler or cold from the air conditioning inside cafes and stores

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He died

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Sorry for your loss

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Write a letter and send it to them

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You want to return the favor since she came when somebody died

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I want to arrange the time

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Time management is very fundamental in our lives

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Accept invitations

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Regret

Sorry

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Make time for the most important people in your life first

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Try to find an hour a week for some people in your life that you care about the most and spend time with them

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If that is too had, do one hour per month if you cannot do one hour per week for people liek family, friends, staff, customers, neighbors, and others

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Appointment

Continuous

Weddings

Funerals

Birthdays

Parties

Drinking parties

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I need to learn how to say no to them to refuse them

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Indians from India have some Indian English

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They tend to talk faster and they slur

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Some get angry and do not want to say it again when you do not understand them

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African English might be harder than Indian English

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Some of Indian English is like British English

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Listen to Indian English music with the words, the lyrics, the subtitles, and sing along, and find the videos and songs on YouTube or other websites and read it and listen and write it out and sing it and speak it  

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Fundamentals

Proper English

Standard English

Official English

Favorite kind of English

Root

Trunk

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Hello Indian, please learn American English because it is too hard for me to learn your Indian English

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PRONUNCIATION:

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Middle East, not Middle Earth

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Brown skin people

Yellow skin people

White skin people

Black skin people

Red skin people

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I can understand people from the Philippines

Filipinos = people of the Philippines

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China

Korea

Japan

Thailand

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Never mind = forget about it = no problem = I do not want to say it again = skip it = move on

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Monotone = flat sound

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Vietnamese bars refuse to serve Vietnamese customers in Vietnam at bars and other places like on Bui Vien

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When the economy goes down, the foreigners pay less and the Vietnamese will then serve Vietnamese more again like before but some Vietnamese will remember that and not go back to them

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$200K USD

House

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Land value

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Keep the gold

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Stock market

Shares

Bonds

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It is better to own land forever and not rent land for only 50 years

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Temporary

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Ownership

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Freedom of speech, press, religion, defense

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Who gives us freedom?

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Does government give us freedom?

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Or are we born with freedom from God, our Creator?

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You cannot really own or buy land in Vietnam.

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Foreigners and Vietnamese say you can buy land and houses and build houses but it is not really true.

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It might be that you can like buy it or rent it in a special way or different or more limited way.

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When you buy land, you must follow the intended purposes or limitations and laws for the lands and properties and everything you buy and rent and own and keep and protect and stuff.

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It is like buying tea to look at but you cannot drink it.

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Please do not say you can just buy an apartment for 50 years. I would call it a rent since you cannot burn it down or do whatever you want with it.

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Countries change and things are getting better with capitalism and nationalism and other things with the good people and potriots in many countries around the world in countries like the USA and also Vietnam and Korea and in Europe and it takes education and you should not seek to break laws or to fight in wars.

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But education is something that takes years of diligence to endure and we make things better when we do not run away from problems to other countries while foreigners and companies take over Vietnam while the best and brightest in Vietnam run away.

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Never give up and keep sharing, everybody, each day, and I'm Joey Arnold Oatmeal Oregon, and I eat oatmeal and garlic, and just keep making videos and articles and photos and share them all over both online and offline and do at least one good thing for a person each day or each week or month and smile and write it down and be accountable and tell people the good you are doing and that is how we make the world great again by making ourselves great through the blood of Jesus Christ and through all of the jazz that flows through all of that as it always does.

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English Class Notes 2017-05-15 Monday Night 6 PM at Opera Vincom HCM with Teacher JoeyArnoldVN

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