Fluency

April 15, 2014
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Just now I watched this TEDx presentation about learning languages quick. Chris Lonsdale claims you can become fluent in a second language in six months by following the principles he outlines in the presentation. To me it kinda feels like he’s just pointing out the obvious.

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Damn screens

April 14, 2014
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Today we paid a visit to a contractor, and got to see how animation drawings are scanned, digitalized and colored. Honestly I was just shocked at how ineffective and outdated everything is, and yet they manage to create content that we see airing weekly.

On the other hand I found it amusing when people who work on computers all day complained about how it tires the eyes. I don’t understand how that works. The last time I felt that looking at the screen tired my eyes was back a decade ago with a 15″ 60Hz CRT monitor, and the past few years I’ve spent more time in front of the screen than elsewhere.

It can be nice

April 13, 2014
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I almost forgot how nice translating a nice load of stuff can feel. There were seasons when I had my hands full with 3-4 shows a day, but once the spring season ended last year, I started tuning it down, so by autumn the number of my running shows was halved, and last season I only had two ongoing. I was just about to forget how translating even feels (and I just made a fool of myself in front of the HR guys when I failed to instantly write down a word I’ve never (sic) used in writing before), so driven by some sudden urge I cleared a good bunch of episodes this weekend. Felt good.

The hunt for rare Macs, part 2

April 13, 2014
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I thought if I already did one of these yesterday, I could as well do another today and call it a weekend. I checked the McD menu online, trying to find something nice and found a quite promising item.

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The hunt for rare Macs, part 1

April 12, 2014
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Someone shared a CH collection of McDonald’s stuff that aren’t available in the US. What a surprise (not), a good bunch of them are Japan-only. So I thought, let’s take advantage of where I live and hunt those available now down.

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A táj

April 12, 2014
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Bár a szülővárosom, Salgótarján a lerobbant kommunista bánya-iparváros mintapéldája (talán csak Ózd teljesít jobban a téren), amilyen csúnya maga a város, annyira szép a környéke.

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A kaja

April 12, 2014
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Pont a múltkor volt a nagy hype, amikor a Buzzfeed lehozott egy listát a kötelező magyar kajákról – amit persze követett a pirospaprikás szarvihar a felháborodott hazafiak részéről.

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A nyelv

April 12, 2014
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Az első a tízből (mily meglepő) a magyar nyelv. Ahányszor hallom/látom/olvasom, amint valaki arról beszél, hogy a magyar nyelv talán a világon a legnehezebben megtanulható, meg hogy mennyire furcsa, bármilyen más nyelvhez hasonlítjuk, meg hogy mennyire szép, azért még az én tízezer kilométer távolra szakadt kicsi szívemet is eltölti a büszkeség.

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Tíz dolog

April 12, 2014
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Most láttam a fácsén egy ilyen “játékot”, hogy ha épp úgy érzed, hogy elhúznád Magyarországról a csíkot, mint a kengyelfutó gyalogkakukk, akkor írj össze tíz jó dolgot, amit az országtól kaptál. Magyaroktól szokatlan pozitív gondolkodás, nem igaz?

Mint évek óta külföldön élő (és hazatérést nem fontolgató) magyar, gondoltam megpróbálkozok ezzel én is. Mivel nem tudom, sikerülne-e egy lendülettel tíz dolgot összegyűjteni, inkább külön bejegyzésekbe írom majd meg egyesével őket, ahogy elkap az ihlet. Ha.

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Way to go

April 11, 2014
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Today the plan was that I’d go to the sushi place in the neighborhood and socialize with whoever’s there at this time (it’s friday night, so I had my hopes up). Except when I entered there was no one but an older lady who looked really surprised at me. That in itself wouldn’t be weird (after all I’m a westerner in a japanese living neighborhood), but instead of welcoming me, she started with a “what do you want?”. Now that’s weird.

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