Israel Lai – composer/polyglot
@15israellai
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PhD composer (UoM) | polyglot 🇭🇰🇬🇧🇵🇱🇩🇪🇸🇪🇫🇷🇮🇱(🏴👋🏻) | steno | creator of language podcast 絮言．狂想 | BA(CUHK), MPhil(Oxon)
Manchester
Joined June 2009
Please @BeeNetwork ...either fix your Welsh translation....OR simply let me manually change the interface language 😭 (This is the system for Cycle Hub cards, but it's the same for the one for Bee Card)
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Hmmm maybe this guy isn't so bad after all
Trump quips about signing executive order mandating soccer be called ‘football’ in America: ‘I think we could do that’ https://t.co/FvtPf7Jiab
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Last week we were joined for our session on Music & song translation by two researchers and composers from the department of Music, Israel Lai (@15israellai @RhapsodyinLingo) & Adnan Marafi. Thank you so much for your insights about the role of translation in your work! 1/2
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somehow I missed this
A student from Hong Kong has attracted hundreds of thousands of views to a video of a road trip he took across Wales speaking Welsh to locals https://t.co/ljMyYIhFbI
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❤️ 🏴 'Dw i jyst yn teimlo cysylltiad efo'r iaith' Mae dyn o Hong Kong yn annog pobl i 'gefnogi ieithoedd lleiafrifol' ar ôl iddo ddysgu Cymraeg.
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replies sorta prove the point. they're not prepared
to the people downloading xiaohongshu you are absolutely not prepared for the level of racism a chinese person is capable of
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Should've trusted the @BeeNetwork app when it showed this bus 41 (which comes every 20 mins) as missing I had too much faith in the actual bus system and now I'm stuck sitting in the snowy cold for half an hour
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‘Our native languages share origins…’ But ‘gorsaf’ in Welsh means ‘train station’, whereas ‘gorsav’ in Breton means ‘orgasm’
Welsh and Breton history has entwined many times. Our native languages (Cymraeg and Brezhoneg) share origins, along with our friends in Kernow, in the Brythonic language. They both have been historically oppressed. We are also two of the six "Celtic Nations" 🤝
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Regardless of what happens with the election results tonight, do not stop standing with & supporting Ukraine. 🇺🇦
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Special edition Hong Kong (1959-1997) + Chile (1812-1814) = Hong Chile:
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私've 決ed to 始t 書iting 私y 英語 with some 漢字 in it, just to 見ee 何 起ens. The 振ri仮名 will be a bit 恣意的 at 一st, but that's 大丈夫. Nothing 始ts 完璧. 個人的ly, I 思ink it's not too 悪, I 出来n 読ead 何 私've 書itten here without much 難ty, but some 人 might not 好e it.
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I love the fact that married women in Hong Kong have their husband's surnames if you're saying Mrs. X, but their own surnames in all other cases
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I haven't forgotten the rules they told me since that day. You DON'T get the discount in the morning hours UNLESS: -weekends -summer holidays -the ticket is over £12, or -advance ticket
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I've literally been fined for this exact reason
You may be wondering - "the ticket says Anytime Single, why wasn't it valid"? This is because of a tiny bit of fine print in the 16-25 Railcard T&Cs about a minimum fare of £12 pre-10am. Most notably, it doesn't apply in August.
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Episode 8 'Doctoriaid Cymraeg'! with @15israellai & 'Cleddau' 🙂/ Pennod 8 or 'Doctoriaid Cymraeg'! Israel Lai a 'Cleddau' 🙂 #podlediad #dysgucymraeg #wrecsam #wrexham #erddig #ieithoedd #noir #s4c #cleddau
https://t.co/7Cinb9L3W0
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Podcast · Doctoriaid Cymraeg · A podcast for Welsh learners who are at the beginning of their journey / Podlediad i ddysgwyr Cymraeg sydd ar ddechrau eu siwrne.
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Imagine having the same name as Israel and the same birthday as Putin... [I am the harbinger of war]
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Here are some thoughts I had, including factors you might not have considered: https://t.co/5yGg9csNNr
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Language learners... Do you prefer to take a language class, or study on your own? #langtwt
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