Anybody else been bored enough to pass their time on Google translate?
I find videos in languages and then I find the lyrics online and then I get an idea of the meaning from Google translate or from a translation given with the lyrics page, and then I look up the language and find out a little about it.
Very often when I am doing things on this computer I put YouTube on in another instantiation of the browser and then I have MyMix playing in the background, and some of the music is videos that I have watched and some are new to me, so I learn.
If you or others want to explore, you might like this song.
I don’t understand what the thread is about sorry EP
There are threads in French, at least one thread in German, yet there are many other languages. This thread is to explore just samples of the vast number of languages that exist, maybe turning up wonderfully serendipitous spin-offs of things people, including me, would never know about otherwise.
Well nothing is expected but if you want to have a go, you could watch the video to which I posted a link and then copy the title and paste into Google translate and detect the language.
Then if you wish you could paste the title into a search engine and added a space and the word
lyrics
and find the lyrics.
There may be an invitation to translate to English. If not, you could copy and paste into Google translate and get an idea of what the lyrics mean in English.
Then you could play the video again and notice how the singer emotively expresses the lyrics, whilst you are understanding the gist of what she is singing about.
Up until relatively recently, I misunderstood the saying, ‘flogging a dead horse’. I thought that it meant trying to sell a deceased animal of the equine variety, as opposed to beating it.