In case you didn’t already know!

Find me here: http://www.facebook.com/maxiewawa

I’d planned to do the entire thing in Japanese, but someone asked me to do it in Korean. I did my best to add some Korean in there.

http://www.languagecast.net/?p=704

If you’re having trouble finding it, here’s the link to my intro:

http://media.libsyn.com/media/languagecast/max_jp1_kr1.mp3

Hope it’s useful. I realise it’s a little rough, but I hope you get something out of it anyway.

Rivers is often about on YouTube, actually. Say hello and tell him how great my version of his song is!

It was actually a YouTube video that started it all: I saw a video mentioning his album, I looked it up in iTunes, a click of a button labelled “BUY THIS ALBUM” and I was the new owner of a copy of “Alone”. “Chess” is one of the tracks on it.

One of the great things about it is that it was recorded entirely at his home studio. Selling music recorded is something that I’m interested in too. (Watch this space for my first professional release!)

Hope you like my version.

Rivers Cuomo on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/RiversCuomoAlone

This track on mp3: http://media.libsyn.com/media/maxiewawa/Chess.mp3

My podcast feed: http://maxiewawa.libsyn.com/rss

You can download the mp3 of this track here: http://media.libsyn.com/media/maxiewawa/Fish_on_a_Stick.mp3

If you can’t see the Youtube movie, it’s here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t3UPfeCQ18

This track is on the podcast feed: http://maxiewawa.libsyn.com/rss

Applemilk is a girl who posts on Youtube. She’s started writing a blog (mostly in Japanese) but has recently started adding English translations. Good for those of us learning Japanese. In this video I read one of her entries to camera.

I don’t know why that accent came out… she has an American accent, so when I read her English writing for some reason I adopted it!

If you can’t see the video it’s here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wh6JBVt00aY

I promised that I’d make some material in those languages every week. But for the past two weeks I’ve (seemingly) done nothing! This blog doesn’t have anything in either language!

Not so though. I’ve been reading a story over at youtube but have just forgotten to put a post up here.

What I’ve done is recorded myself doing the voices for a manga called Conan: the Detective. Basically just a whodunnit.

In the show notes of each video I’ve put a link to a translation of what I’m reading, so you can read along with me.

Here are the videos. They are alternately in Chinese and Japanese.

Part 1 (Chinese): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BcyQopKEiw
Translation: http://www.mangafox.com/page/manga/read/88/detective_conan/chapter.28039.61-635.0/
Part 2 (Japanese): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsOpQAbjOqw
Translation: http://www.mangafox.com/page/manga/read/88/detective_conan/chapter.28039/page.12/

Part 3 (Chinese): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-vx61nAvZU

http://www.mangafox.com/page/manga/read/88/detective_conan/chapter.28401/page.3/

Part 4 (Japanese): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bw0JGej8BEo
Translation: http://www.mangafox.com/page/manga/read/88/detective_conan/chapter.28401/page.8/

Here are the words:

嘿！你是谁？
え！あなた誰？
Hey! Who are you?

我叫［转］。
「曲がる」と申しますけど。
I’m “Turner”.

你在我家干什么？偷东西？
私の家で何するの？盗む事？
What are you doing in my house? Stealing?

不是，我是你儿子的朋友。
そうじゃなくて、私は息子さんの友達ですよ。
No, I’m your son’s friend.

我儿子的朋友？
息子の友達？
My son’s friend?

啊。。。女儿的朋友。
哦。。。娘の友達。
Ahhh… I mean your daughter’s friend.

是吗？奇怪，她没有告诉我今天会来一个朋友。
そうですか。妙ですね、彼女は今日友達が来るって教えなかったよ。
Really? Strange, she didn’t tell me that a friend was coming over.

她可能忘记告诉你了。她最近忙着读书。
忘れたかも知りませんね。彼女最近勉強をよくして、忙しい。
She probably forgot to tell you. She’s been busy studying.

忙什么？她最近轻松多了，都在家看电视！
忙しい？彼女は最近楽、家でテレビを見るばかり！
Busy? Recently she’s had it easy, doing nothing except sit at home watching TV!

是吗？我可能来错地方了。
そうっか？間違ったね。
Really? I guess I’ve come to the wrong place.

In case you can’t follow (or if I’ve made too many mistakes for it to be intelligible, which is just as likely!):

The “old” object is my iPod 30G. Apple don’t actually sell them any more, so that’s why I chose it.
The “safe” object is a wrist pad for roller blading.
The “heavy” object is a chair.
The “difficult” object is my Japanese copy of ‘Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban’.
The “inconvenient” object is a pair of chopsticks. (As Seinfeld said, “You don’t see a guy plowing a field with a couple of pool cues, do you!”)
The “boring” object is a copy of a movie that I didn’t enjoy.