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renaissancemedici
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Re: Three-Horned Bull from the Netherworld - Tarvos' Log

Postby renaissancemedici » Tue Sep 18, 2018 5:03 am

Jaleel10 wrote:Here is her Polyglot Gathering talk from a few months ago. ¡Una crack!


Wow, if that's your Spanish accent I'd love to hear your Greek as well. I suspect it is pretty good.
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Re: Three-Horned Bull from the Netherworld - Tarvos' Log

Postby tarvos » Tue Sep 18, 2018 8:34 am

Gimme a text to record and I'll be able to show you ;)
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Re: Three-Horned Bull from the Netherworld - Tarvos' Log

Postby renaissancemedici » Tue Sep 18, 2018 9:49 am

Όμορφη πόλη ( Θα γίνεις δικιά μου ) - 1966

Όμορφη πόλη
φωνές μουσικές
απέραντοι δρόμοι
κλεμμένες ματιές
ο ήλιος χρυσίζει
χέρια σπαρμένα
βουνά και γιαπιά
πελάγη απλωμένα

Θα γίνεις δικιά μου πριν έρθει η νύχτα
τα χλωμά τα φώτα πριν ρίξουν δίχτυα
θα γίνεις δικιά μου

Θα γίνεις δικιά μου πριν έρθει η νύχτα
τα χλωμά τα φώτα πριν ρίξουν δίχτυα
θα γίνεις δικιά μου

Η νύχτα έφτασε
τα παράθυρα κλείσαν
η νύχτα έπεσε
οι δρόμοι χαθήκαν




These are lyrics to an old loved song. I hope you enjoy reading it!
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Re: Three-Horned Bull from the Netherworld - Tarvos' Log

Postby tarvos » Tue Sep 18, 2018 10:42 am

https://vocaroo.com/i/s0CNCFtQAjvc

Click the link and enjoy :)
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Re: Three-Horned Bull from the Netherworld - Tarvos' Log

Postby renaissancemedici » Tue Sep 18, 2018 10:45 am

I did enjoy it, you are great! :) :) :)
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Re: Three-Horned Bull from the Netherworld - Tarvos' Log

Postby tarvos » Tue Sep 18, 2018 10:49 am

renaissancemedici wrote:I did enjoy it, you are great! :) :) :)


Thanks, any comments for improvement? I'm pretty sure the light accent I have is still noticeable.
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Re: Three-Horned Bull from the Netherworld - Tarvos' Log

Postby renaissancemedici » Tue Sep 18, 2018 11:00 am

It is but your pronunciation is very good indeed. Mind the difference between Γ and Χ, and a bit the word και. I am not flattering you though when I say you are really good! It's true. You pronounced δίχτυα and γιαπιά, a difficult thing I assure you.
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Re: Three-Horned Bull from the Netherworld - Tarvos' Log

Postby tarvos » Wed Sep 19, 2018 2:56 pm

These words didn't seem to be that difficult actually. I'm continuing on my road through Japanese, and I am also reading a Spanish fantasy novel called "Las fuentes perdidas" which I am bursting through at breakneck speed, because I... speak Spanish.
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Re: Three-Horned Bull from the Netherworld - Tarvos' Log

Postby tarvos » Thu Sep 20, 2018 10:11 pm

Just one more chapter and I'll be done with Las fuentes perdidas. It's necessary because I still want to hit 50 books before the end of the year, and I'm only on 26 and about 9 books behind schedule according to Goodreads. I'm not making it easy on myself as I haven't been reading a lot of Dutch and English, which would really ramp up the speed at which I can cover books. That being said, I need a whole host of recommendations to get moving with still hitting 50 books. What I need are books in the following languages:

- Portuguese
- Greek
- Simple graded readers in Chinese
- Simple texts in Korean
- French
- Czech
- Swedish (or Norwegian, or Danish...)
- Esperanto
- Simple manga to read in Japanese

Any of my other languages is also ok, of course, but I've got them covered for this year.

And then anything that seems to be good fantasy or science fiction, police novels, and anything queer-themed will do for me. And in a pinch you can also recommend me non-fiction, especially on East Asian history.
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Re: Three-Horned Bull from the Netherworld - Tarvos' Log

Postby eido » Fri Sep 21, 2018 12:39 am

I've only read one book about Korea, and that was Korea: The Impossible Country. The title alone should have sent off some warning bells but it didn't. Now that I'm looking through reviews on Goodreads (your post reminded me to go there), I see what I thought about the book in sneaking suspicions was evident to a few others. The author of this book makes Korea seem unnecessarily foreign and magical instead of objectively analyzing it - if that were his purpose. He could have also chose to criticize it, as some people note, bending the book to his will to offer an opinion. My library doesn't have a lot of books about East Asian countries, though, so this was the best pick I had at the time. Do you have any recommendations for me?

I can recommend books that seem interesting, but haven't actually read myself. A critical thought has yet to enter my head since the day I was born, so my experience is worth nothing.
This book seems to have the right idea, but reading reviews, they're mixed. So I don't know if you'd like it, seeing as you're more discerning than I.

This book isn't out yet but I read about it a while back and it seemed interesting. It's supposed to have things we didn't know about Enigma, but covers ground some people might already be familiar with.

I can only recommend books that cover the WWII era because my mom's obsessed with the time period (only when it comes to Europe, though) and the disease has spread to me. We also have books about Aerosmith, because - you guessed - it my mom. I'm just curious to see what you'd recommend because my mind needs to be broadened, hopefully in a way that considers objectivity.

And sorry for the last post I made on your log. I know you say you like to joke and keep things light in real life, but it's hard to read you on the Internet so I was trying to match what I thought was a somber attitude coming from you. Sorry if it offended. I'm glad to hear you're doing better now, even if not in the way we'd been discussing.
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