#apny2015

Feliz año nuevo! Dos mil diecisiete. No celebro el año nuevo. Todo el mundo bebe demasiado y conduce. Canto y escucho la cancion “This Year” para la banda The Mountain Goats. Los fuegos artificiales trastornan al perro así que la consuelo.

———————— Bonne année! Deux mille dix-sept.

Je ne fête pas la nouvelle année. Toute le monde boit trop et conduit. Je chante et j'écoute la chanson “This Year” par le groupe The Mountain Goats. Les feux d'artifice bouleversent la chienne et je la réconforte.

GUYS! I miss you! Well, I actually miss 'A Polyglot New Year' and the structure it gave my internet time. Since it finished, I'm not getting my little bit of language practice in each day (I'm doing some things for uni but it's not the same).

What are you guys doing now? Is there any chance of us banding together and creating something like APNY for the rest of the year? Or even just getting together to discuss our language practice could maybe be motivational.

What are some false cognates/false friends between your languages?

Sumerian and English are totally unrelated, but that doesn't mean that false cognates don't exist between them. There aren't very many, because the sound systems are so different. A few examples are:

eshbarkingduga — despite containing the word barking, this word actually refers to an "officially declared decision" and not the noises of animals

mud — this word has several Sumerian meanings, including "children", "blood", "terror", "to give birth", "tree stump", "to sing" and "exultation", but not "mix of dirt and water"

sang — pronounced somewhere between English sang and song, this word actually means "head" or "leader"

So, the final prompt is completely open-ended. You decide what you would like to share with the tumblr world today about your languages. so i decided to go back and visit the intermediate prompt for day 25, which was "try to translate your favorite song in your second language into your first or vice versa", and attempt to translate one of my favorite Portuguese songs into English. The song is "Corcovado" sung (originally) by Antonio Carlos Jobim. I know there is an English version, but I've never heard it... so....... yeah lmao. I tried to make it sound a little more poetic than literal, so some liberties were taken. (And suggestions to my shitty translation is also totally appreciated!) Also, a little background: "Corcovado" refers to the mountain that overlooks Rio and has the famous "Jesus status" aka Christ the Redeemer built atop it. The more you know! *:･ﾟ✧

Scan a new article of your choice in your target language(s) for a couple sentences that you can understand the gist of. Write a summary/approximate translation of those sentences in your target or native language. Página aleatória dá "Francisco Pereira Sodré"! Eu não sei o homem.

When is your birthday? What do you usually do on your birthday? How about when you were a child? If you could have one wish granted on your birthday, what would it be?

Spanish:

So, even though it's no longer January, I have every intention of completing APNY. Last two days - go!

Day 30 - Article Fun! (I'm all out of inventive titles, can you tell?)

Advanced: Read a news article of your choice in your language(s). Write a summary of the article in your language(s), and include your opinion on the issue and the history of it if you know some more background.

Éste es el artículo que he elegido para la tarea de hoy, porque ya sabía algo del tema.

El pasado viernes se hundió una embarcación ilegal (patera) cerca de la playa La Bocana en Melilla. La razón por el naufrágio fue las olas altas que habían en las aguas marroquíes causadas por un fuerte temporal, resultando en condiciones menos que favorables para la patera. Cuando la embarcación se echó a la mar en Nador, Marruecos, iban a bordo veinte 'sin papeles', intentando llegar a Melilla. Sin embargo, cuando la Guardia Civíl encontró la patera, lograron rescatar apenas diez inmigrantes. Cuatro habían desaparecido y seis habían fallecido.

El artículo también habla de la situación general que hay con respecto a la inmigración clandestina, entre Marruecos y Melilla sobre todo. Recalca la cantidad de gente que intenta llegar a España a través de las vallas 'insuperables' que le espera cuando llegue. Detalla que es el peligro que propone superar estas vallas que conduce a los inmigrantes a buscar otra forma de entrada al país europeo.