Loca Lingo Multicultural

If you want to go and medidate at artists-who-developed-once-humanity’s graves (classic music, opera, theatre, painting) click here - Molière, Alfred de Musset, Honoré de Balzac, Marcel Proust, Guillaume Apollinaire, Paul Eluard, Jean de La Fontaine, Beaumarchais (writers, theaters, poems), Gioacchino Rossini, Georges Bizet, François-Felix Fauré, Frédéric Chopin, Michel Petrucciani, Edith Piaf, Jim Morrison, Maria Callas (composers, musicians, singers), Georges Seurat, Camille Pissarro, Eugène Delacroix, Amadeo Modigliani, Dominique Ingres (painters)…

Who said that popularity/genious equaled to richness/love ? By the condition of the graves, you can tell who had a comfortable death, and the ones who got “forgotten”…

Another great Chinese Love song (the romance side of china),… a classic from Teresa Teng who died 10 years ago. You’d better learn this one by heart - after having listened at it, it will buzz several days long in your head… no matter what.
Chose first your version on either Youtube, Metacafé, and then follow the lyrics. The translation is like for the previous one (yuèliang dàibiǎo wǒ de xīn - 月 亮 代 表 我 的 心) more an interpretation (and not a transliteration (title). Enjoy…

So we started with a series of Russian songs, we should now carry on with Chinese ones.
If you plan to start making business in China, there are 2 things you’ll absolutely need to master :
- being able to drink lots of whisky (alcohol in general), and still talk about serious business at the end of the night
- sing, or master a few local karaoke songs.

Hereunder is a (cheezy) classic, known by just a few hundred millions of Chinese… like for the Russian series, chose the version you would enjoy first, and then good luck… Youtube, metacafe and that’s it (Frenchy platforms do not seem interested in Chinese music…).

Unlike Russian, Mandarin Chinese doesn’t have any alphabet (it is a bit more complex, more pictograms/ ideograms…) - it will be pretty user unfriendly to list more than 300000…different words.
Instead, we will put a transliteration in pinyin. If you find the characters hereunder too small, just increase the size of the text with your favorite browser..

Pretty much a “soviet” song (1938)… that entered the local Russian culture.

First, chose your music version, through either Youtube, Dailymotion or Metacafé.
Then, help yourself with the alphabet below, or go straight to the transliteration - try to learn this song with the real alphabet (anyway you’ll need to master it before your journey)… if you want to carry on your immersion, have a look as well to Калинка, Kalinka

just about feelings around the world - I really enjoyed going through this flash presentation even if it is part of a branding action (for the BBC) snapshots of the world - if I had the budget… this makes you dream

BBC, British Broadcast Corporation, where journalists are more independent than maybe the rest of the crowd (proper network of correspondents)… No advertising, and no (direct at least) influence from political parties (even if its sole source of financing is from the U.K. - I know this freedom of speech sounds strange, maybe it is part of the English culture - even though there are channels I wouldn’t trust for a penny) - slightly left wing to some extent (that’s fine with me).
A bit of free advertising for a good television that worths it… for a world tour, don’t hesitate to read these following online newspapers - I am not sure how independent they are, but at least, you’ll be collecting different point of views… don’t hesitate to add your favorite ones, or to comment…

Enjoy.

What’s the best form of censorship you could ever think of ?
To not think about “what” you should not think.

In other words, your mind might be structured in such a way it would naturally be directed in certain tortuous directions, while in the mean time, it would be just busy focusing about those ones.

For instance, concretely, I have always wondered about the true meaning of pornography’s censorship in Europe… are we just focusing our attention to this debate (completely worthwhile in certain areas), so we unconsciously avoid topics that could enrich ours ? Do we have the opportunity to think about something else, when it is just wrapping our share of mind from any side ? Thinking, going outside the offered context requires an effort.

Hereunder are examples of books you would have never imagined. Don’t try to find them, you won’t (click on the pics for other examples).

Artwork visible at the Van Abbe Museum (Eindhoven - NL)
what if Ruhnama was a Bible ?