Chinese Project

Space…the final frontier [Star Trek in Chinese]

by khatzumoto

I’ve been enjoying the new Star Trek movie (#11?) in Mandarin today…Right now it looks like I may just have to go to Hong Kong in person to snag a Cantonese version. Anyway, here’s the famous intro/outro with audio: 『宇宙，人類的終極邊疆。這就是星艦「企業」號的旅程。它的任務是探索全新的世界，挖掘新的物種和文明，勇敢地前往沒有人去過的地方。』 [Audio file] Shortest AJATT post ever…

by khatzumoto

Gather round, children, gather round. As the title suggests, the good folk at Amazon.cn sold me a copy of “Independence Day”, DVDed up and Mandarin-dubbed, for the sum of approximately $3 (I LOVE Amazon.cn). And you know what happens when I get a copy of the President’s speech in “Independence Day”. Anyway, enjoy. Audio here.…

by khatzumoto

If you’re like me…I don’t know whether you actually are, but…you know, if you are, then you came from a country and a culture that largely frowns upon overt displays of emotion. Especially overt displays of positive emotion. Forget displays — simply having a positive mental attitude might be social suicide(?) where you’re from. As…

by khatzumoto

To all tha haters that sed we wuz whack. That sed “hanzi be rockin’ semantic-phonetic duality, son… ideographic component analysis just won’t work — I played Othello at Cambridge!”; that sed we couldn’t represent no more. Well here’s a big BOOYAKASHA from Timothy “Tha Killa” Richardson and James “Old Kanji Bastard” Heisig, two thugs with…

by khatzumoto

Constant Improvement One thing that writing this blog has made me aware of is that I always seem to be hustling for new and better ways to do things. And, you can take that a bunch of ways, but I take it to mean that I have massive room for improvement. When I was just…

by khatzumoto

うっす.　So, it’s been a while since I posted one of these, but anyway here we are all the way at #10. I’m going to try to keep this one short (I’m not just saying that!) because these suuuuuuuuuuuck to edit afterwards. Actually, they’re a lot better since I started using Microsoft Word a word processor…