Friday, April 30, 2021

Chinese & Singaporean Place Names Translated in Singapore and Malaysia


 

In Singapore and Hong Kong, Taiwan and China you might notice names which are meaningless to you but they are easier to reember and helpful in learning languages and culture when you find out the translation.

Singapore

Chu Kang

A kang was a concession or leasehold. Large Kang's had the names of the landowner or leaseholder.

Today I leanred that a Kang is a river bank. What does Choa Chu Kang mean? Chu is the head man or his house.

Kang Chu means head man. Kang chu is his fifedom.

Choa Chu Kang is a major interchange in the west of Singpoare from the NS4 MRT station on the read north south line, where you can change to the end/start of the Bukit Panjang line at the first station.  

Malaysia

Kuala means estuary.  

Useful Websites

Useful Website

I was looking for Chinese flashcards online. How many cards, and how many words on them? they may be in education rather than reference in the book store.

You can buy flashcards in a set with a CD to hear the correct sounds and tones.

https://www.amazon.com/Chinese-Flash-Cards-Kit-Intermediate/dp/0804842027/ref=pd_rhf_dp_s_vtp_ses_clicks_nonshared_3?pd_rd_w=CSxx4&pf_rd_p=f818a79d-4393-4f85-8a51-3c71ea371f3e&pf_rd_r=MP71XQ0KPK4T57MY9CWD&pd_rd_r=466b990f-a6be-43e9-b75a-600b125cb2b8&pd_rd_wg=odsUe&pd_rd_i=0804842027&psc=1

You can also by a grammar leaflet.

And a vocabulary leaflet.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/1423204204/ref=rdr_ext_tmb

About the Author
About Angela The Author
The Author - Quick Quotations

Angela Lansbury B A Hons  is the author of ten books by regular publishers plus another ten self-published books. 

About Angela The Speaker & Trainer

Angela Lansbury is a teacher of English and other languages to Toastmasters clubs and businesses.

Braddell Heights Advanced Toastmasters Speakers Vice President  Public Rrelations, Immediate Past President.
Former Area Director S3. Club Coach for Nee Soon South Toastmasters Club.
Also Member of: TCA Toastmasters Club; Singapore Online Dynamic; Harrovians UK
Garen Tee on using story telling in business, on bha.learncool.sg . Also educational on using Powerpoint for posters.
Next BHA meeting, Wednesday evening, May 5th, 7 pm Singapore time which is currently GMT+8.
Angela The Blogger 

Angela has several blogs speeches, comedy and song writing and organizing, writing itermittently, but writes almost daily on these three:


Please share links to your favourite posts. 


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Wednesday, April 28, 2021

Try translating Gaelic from the Highlands and islands of Scotland - here's a sentence

 


Useful Website

I was looking for Chinese flashcards online. How many cards, and how many words on them? they may be in education rather than reference in the book store.

You can buy flashcards in a set with a CD to hear the correct sounds and tones.

https://www.amazon.com/Chinese-Flash-Cards-Kit-Intermediate/dp/0804842027/ref=pd_rhf_dp_s_vtp_ses_clicks_nonshared_3?pd_rd_w=CSxx4&pf_rd_p=f818a79d-4393-4f85-8a51-3c71ea371f3e&pf_rd_r=MP71XQ0KPK4T57MY9CWD&pd_rd_r=466b990f-a6be-43e9-b75a-600b125cb2b8&pd_rd_wg=odsUe&pd_rd_i=0804842027&psc=1

You can also by a grammar leaflet.

And a vocabulary leaflet.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/1423204204/ref=rdr_ext_tmb

About the Author
About Angela The Author
The Author - Quick Quotations

Angela Lansbury B A Hons  is the author of ten books by regular publishers plus another ten self-published books. 

About Angela The Speaker & Trainer

Angela Lansbury is a teacher of English and other languages to Toastmasters clubs and businesses.

Braddell Heights Advanced Toastmasters Speakers Vice President  Public Rrelations, Immediate Past President.
Former Area Director S3. Club Coach for Nee Soon South Toastmasters Club.
Also Member of: TCA Toastmasters Club; Singapore Online Dynamic; Harrovians UK
Garen Tee on using story telling in business, on bha.learncool.sg . Also educational on using Powerpoint for posters.
Next BHA meeting, Wednesday evening, May 5th, 7 pm Singapore time which is currently GMT+8.
Angela The Blogger 

Angela has several blogs speeches, comedy and song writing and organizing, writing itermittently, but writes almost daily on these three:


Please share links to your favourite posts. 

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Tuesday, April 27, 2021

Mandy Patinkin Interview - Yentl - Mamaloshen God bless America in Yiddish





Useful Websites

Translate Google, Yiddish

Youtube
See Romania. (Featured elsewhere on this blog.)

About the Author
About Angela The Author
The Author - Quick Quotations

Angela Lansbury B A Hons  is the author of ten books by regular publishers plus another ten self-published books. 

About Angela The Speaker & Trainer

Angela Lansbury is a teacher of English and other languages to Toastmasters clubs and businesses.

Braddell Heights Advanced Toastmasters Speakers Vice President  Public Rrelations, Immediate Past President.
Former Area Director S3. Club Coach for Nee Soon South Toastmasters Club.
Also Member of: TCA Toastmasters Club; Singapore Online Dynamic; Harrovians UK
Garen Tee on using story telling in business, on bha.learncool.sg . Also educational on using Powerpoint for posters.
Next BHA meeting, Wednesday evening, May 5th, 7 pm Singapore time which is currently GMT+8.
Angela The Blogger 

Angela has several blogs speeches, comedy and song writing and organizing, writing itermittently, but writes almost daily on these three:


Please share links to your favourite posts. 

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Useful Learn Chinese Flash Cards With A book





 

You can look inside this online on Amazon. Really helpful set. Shows you the radicals. Used in sensible and useful sentences.

Useful Website

I was looking for Chinese flashcards online. How many cards, and how many words on them? they may be in education rather than reference in the book store.

You can buy flashcards in a set with a CD to hear the correct sounds and tones.

https://www.amazon.com/Chinese-Flash-Cards-Kit-Intermediate/dp/0804842027/ref=pd_rhf_dp_s_vtp_ses_clicks_nonshared_3?pd_rd_w=CSxx4&pf_rd_p=f818a79d-4393-4f85-8a51-3c71ea371f3e&pf_rd_r=MP71XQ0KPK4T57MY9CWD&pd_rd_r=466b990f-a6be-43e9-b75a-600b125cb2b8&pd_rd_wg=odsUe&pd_rd_i=0804842027&psc=1

You can also by a grammar leaflet.

And a vocabulary leaflet.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/1423204204/ref=rdr_ext_tmb

About the Author
About Angela The Author
The Author - Quick Quotations

Angela Lansbury B A Hons  is the author of ten books by regular publishers plus another ten self-published books. 

About Angela The Speaker & Trainer

Angela Lansbury is a teacher of English and other languages to Toastmasters clubs and businesses.

Braddell Heights Advanced Toastmasters Speakers Vice President  Public Rrelations, Immediate Past President.
Former Area Director S3. Club Coach for Nee Soon South Toastmasters Club.
Also Member of: TCA Toastmasters Club; Singapore Online Dynamic; Harrovians UK
Garen Tee on using story telling in business, on bha.learncool.sg . Also educational on using Powerpoint for posters.
Next BHA meeting, Wednesday evening, May 5th, 7 pm Singapore time which is currently GMT+8.
Angela The Blogger 

Angela has several blogs speeches, comedy and song writing and organizing, writing itermittently, but writes almost daily on these three:


Please share links to your favourite posts. 

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Saturday, April 17, 2021

Just two Welsh words, a and ac - then learn to recognize a few more


 Flag of Wales. The red Welsh dragon.


I looked at a photo of a Welsh hospital's Accident And Emergency entrance.

I saw three words. Two of the words were very long and hard to remember. But the middle word, presumably 'and' , was ac, starting with the same letter as and.

Just to be sure I had translated correctly, I went to translate google. ac was and. But was and ac?

It is well known to translators that you must translate back again to be sure. 

When I put in and, I found a and ac. Like a and an, I presumed, it is hard to say a in front of a word starting with a, so you add a consonant.


Welsh - English

a / ac - and

bach/fach - small

cawl - soup

coffi - coffee

dau - two

ond - but

sebon - soap

siop - shop

sosban -saucepan/pan

tri - three

y/yr - the

yn - in

yno - there


English Welsh

and - a/ac

but - ond

coffee - coffi

in - yn

one, two, three - un, dau, tri

saucepan/pan - sosban

shop - siop

small - bach/fach

soap - sebon

soup - cawl

the - y/yr

there - yno

three - tri (like triangle)

two - dau


Useful Websites

LEARN WELSH

duolingo.com

https://www.duolingo.com/enroll/cy/en/Learn-Welsh

TOASTMASTERS

https://www.toastmasters.org/Find-a-Club/01014712-voice-of-wales

TRANSLATE

https://translate.google.com/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Welsh_films

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welsh_language


About the Author

Angela Lansbury is a teacher of English and other languages to Toastmasters clubs and businesses.

Please share links to your favourite posts.

Angela Lansbury B A Hons ACG ALB PM5 VC5
The Author - Quick Quotations

Blogs 
Braddell Heights Advanced Toastmasters Speakers VP PR, IPP
Former Area Director S3. Club Coach for Nee Soon South Toastmasters Club
Member of TCA Toastmasters Club, Singapore Online Dynamic, Harrovians UK
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Monday, April 12, 2021

How to say in Chinese: 'I like swimming,' and ask, 'Do you like swimming?'


 

Today I went swimming and asked my friend Victoria, who speaks English and Mandarin Chinese, how do I say, in Chinese, 'I like swimming'?

Her answer sounded like:

Wo see won (or han) yo yor.

I devised two memory aids. I know that wo is I. 

Woe, the sea has killed one, is one of you, of yours?

That is reather negative, though easy to remember.

Another version could be :

Woah! See one (gift for) you (and) yours.

Google translate gave me this:

一世
喜欢
 游泳
Yīshì
xǐhuān
 yóuyǒng

It translates back as I like swim.

Yi-shi one (number one as you can see from the horizontal line) is the formal version of I, like oneself. 

Ma is a question word. Add it on the end of any statement and you have a question. Japanese is the same, with the word deska, or desuka. 

Useful websites

Duolingo.com

memrise.com

translate.google.com

I also know that Ni is you. Ni how is you good, meaning how are you, or are you well? (The reply is how spelled hau in pinyin, like the German word blau for blue which is also a common german surname. ( I recall a good friend from Harrow Writers' Circle called Karl Blau.)


About the Author

Angela Lansbury is a teacher of English and other languages to Toastmasters clubs and businesses.

Please share links to your favourite posts.

Angela Lansbury B A Hons ACG ALB PM5 VC5
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Blogs 
Braddell Heights Advanced Toastmasters Speakers VP PR, IPP
Former Area Director S3. Club Coach for Nee Soon South Toastmasters Club
Member of TCA Toastmasters Club, Singapore Online Dynamic, Harrovians UK
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Sunday, April 11, 2021

My Chinese Name - Angela

 

The name Angela can be translated into Chinese several ways.

Firstly, the symbol for An means peace.

Japanese and Chinese symbols are the same. However, the sound may be different. Think of the no smoking sign in England and France. It looks like a cigaarette with diagonal line or  a red cross though it. But the meaning will be pronounced in English as No smoking. In French the words are different.


Although you have a choice of words which sound like the English syllable, certain wirtten symbols are more suitable than others. You might want to echo the simplicity of the Chinese writing of the first syllable with the Chinese writing of the second syllable.

Some signs are considered prettier than others.


Useful Websites

https://chinese.gratis/names/


About the Author

Angela Lansbury is a teacher of English and other languages to Toastmasters clubs and businesses.

Please share links to your favourite posts.

Angela Lansbury B A Hons ACG ALB PM5 VC5
The Author - Quick Quotations

Blogs 
Braddell Heights Advanced Toastmasters Speakers VP PR, IPP
Former Area Director S3. Club Coach for Nee Soon South Toastmasters Club
Member of TCA Toastmasters Club, Singapore Online Dynamic, Harrovians UK
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Thursday, April 8, 2021

Speaking Chinese To Childen and Grandchilden

 

I have been reading a book called Raising a bilingual child. You can tell it is American because it says raising. In Britain I would have said Brigning up a bilingual Child, which is alliterative.

Interestingly it give you a chart you can fill in. This seems to be the modern way. You can make a chart of anything, from your waking times and bedtimes, to the number of times you greet strangers, or watch TV.

You list the languages of the parents, the grandparents, schools, surroundings, books, TV and films (movies).

Children aged 0 to 5 and 10-15 have different interests. Starting with Lullabies, and children's TV programmes such as Sesame Street which you can watch in Spanish and other languages. Then you can have books or movies in other languages. Or use other languages at mealtimes.

You can set up a system, such as speak the local language touside the home. Speak another language to parents, a third language to grandparents. 

If parents are from different backgrounds, you could speak English to father, and French to mother. Or English at breakfast but French at dinner.

Useful Resources

Raising a Bilingual Child by Barbara Zurer Pearlson Ph D. Living Language, a Random House Company, New York.

Language & Literacy in Bilingual Children


About the Author

Angela Lansbury is a British author who has lived in the USA, Spain and Singapore. Her 20 books include Wedding Speeches & Toasts, and Quick Quotations.

She has lived in the USA, Spain and Singapore. She is a travel writer and photographer.

Angela Lansbury is a teacher of English (advanced and English as a Second Language or English as a Foreign Language, French and other languages, aspiring polyglot.

Angela Lansbury is also a speaker. Member of many toastmasters -  speaker training clubs - and a speaking contest judge.
She is VP PR for Braddell Heights Advanced toastmasters club which meets online the first Wednesday evening of the month at 7 pm Singapore time; then the third Saturday afternoon at 2 pm Singapore time. Please come along. Open to Toastmasters and guests. In April and possibly longer BHA will be on bha/learncool.sg
Next meetings are Saturday April 17th, Wed May 5th, Sat May 15th, Wed June 2nd and Sat June 19th.


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Monday, April 5, 2021

Learn Chinese: Jay Chou Ting Mama de Hua (Listen to Mama) 周杰倫【聽媽媽的話】


About the Author

Angela Lansbury is a teacher of English and other languages to Toastmasters clubs and businesses.

Please share links to your favourite posts.

Angela Lansbury B A Hons ACG ALB PM5 VC5
The Author - Quick Quotations

Blogs 
Braddell Heights Advanced Toastmasters Speakers VP PR, IPP
Former Area Director S3. Club Coach for Nee Soon South Toastmasters Club
Member of TCA Toastmasters Club, Singapore Online Dynamic, Harrovians UK
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