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Version 1.0.0
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This is the MP4 video of the unofficial ปล่อย ("Ploi") music video by a Thai band called Bodyslam. Together with the .srt subtitles file of the same name, is intended purely as a demonstrative sample of my ability - firstly to translate Thai musical lyrics into English and, secondly, to put these into the correct .srt file format. The video file remains the property of its publisher and it is not to be redistributed in any form. In order to view the video with my English subtitles, you will need to download both this MP4 video file and the .srt subtitle file of the same name. Both files should be downloaded to the same folder on your PC. Both files need to have identical file names, (only the file extensions will differ,) in order for the English language subtitles to work when reviewing the video. Comments on the accuracy or otherwise of my translation of the subtitles to the video will be highly welcome. Thank you! Vic Rolfe 02/05/2019Free -
Version 1.0.0
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This is the .srt file for the English language subtitles that I made for the unofficial ปล่อย ("Ploi") music video by a Thai band called Bodyslam. It is intended as a demonstrative sample of my ability - firstly to translate Thai musical lyrics into English and, secondly, to put these into the correct .srt file format. In order to view the video with my English subtitles, you will need to download both the MP4 video file of the same name and this .srt subtitle file. Both files should be downloaded to the same folder on your PC. Both files need to have identical file names, (only the file extensions will differ,) in order for the English language subtitles to work when reviewing the video. Comments on the accuracy or otherwise of my translation of the subtitles to the video will be highly welcome. Thank you! Vic Rolfe 02/05/2019Free -
Since Lim closed down all the food and live music venues on the Baywalk, years ago, the place is good for a stroll and watching the famous Manila Bay sunset - and that's about it, these days...
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Nice!!
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I've just been cleaning out some old posts with broken, bad, spammy and other useless links. This will be a major task but, unfortunately, a necessary one if artfreaks.com is ever going to get any chance of being recognized by any of the major search engines. The wyspers site, (previous post by FunkyBoy,) looks good and I am very happy to be able to keep that one in!
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Version 1.0.0
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This is a .xml file containing over 300 flashcards with the Q sides depicting a random selection of Thai words and phrases, all written in the Thai script, and using various different fonts. You will have to download the StudyMinder Flash Cards software to your PC, in order to view and use the cards. Once the software has been installed on your PC, it will create a directory, (a sub-folder - usually in your Documents folder,) called StudyMinder Flash Cards. Just install the .xml file to that subfolder and you can start using the cards right away. Most of the information contained in the flashcards was obtained using a combination of the Thai2English v.2.3 language software and Longdu Dictionary To get the full benefit of the flash cards, I would also suggest downloading a comprehensive selection of Thai language fonts to your PC. You will then be able to change the fonts in which the cards are displayed - and play around with them to your heart's content! The file is provided free of charge and therefore the owner does not warrant the accuracy of any of the information contained in it - nor will he accept any liability whatsoever for any consequences of its use.Free -
'Looks good!!
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Awesome!!
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'Sounds like a lot of work!
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The background is fine... I would have been tempted to put a couple of long, straggly bits of seaweed in there. A bit corny, I know - but then that's just me!! ?
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On my Thai vocabulary flashcards, I write the Thai words using a colour-coding system to indicate the correct tone to use for each syllable: Red for High Tone syllables Plain black for the Mid Tone syllables Green for the Low Tone syllables Light Green for rising tones. The tone is rising up from a low (dark green) tone, hence the light green? It made sense to me! and Pink for falling tones. The tone is falling from a high pitch, hence the colour should be a bit "less" than pure red?! For the transliterated Thai to Roman Alphabet script, (which tells me how to pronounce the words,) I use the fairly standard: (Please note: This works in Microsoft Word documents but it won't work with this website - not unless you write your post or article in MS Word and then copy and paste the text over to here...) High Tones - A Combining Acute Accent (something like an "/" on top of the syllable) by typing 0301 after the letter over which I want the accent to appear; highlighting this - and then clicking on Alt + x Low Tones - A Combining Grave Accent (as above but sloping down from left to right) by typing 0300 after the letter over which I want the accent to appear; highlighting this - and then clicking on Alt + x Falling Tones - A Combining Circumflex Accent (like a little ^ on top of the syllable) by typing 0311 after the letter over which I want the accent to appear; highlighting this - and then clicking on Alt + x Rising Tones - A Combining Caron (as above but the other way up) by typing 030C after the letter over which I want the accent to appear; highlighting this - and then clicking on Alt + x It took me a while to figure out just how to do that, so I just wanted to share, as they say. (Well, if nothing else, it will provide me with a reference as to how to do it, in case I forget the codes...) The above works fine with StudyMinder Flash Cards
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Brilliant!!
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In March 2015, I started seriously trying to learn the Thai language - including, (or especially,) the writing system. When I started trying to learn Thai, I was desperate, for personal reasons, to be able to understand and communicate in the written language. Fast forward... Obviously, when you are learning a new language, you need to accumulate a massive vocabulary of several thousand new words before you can even start to be able to "get by" comfortably in the language. Acquiring a massive new vocabulary in the shortest possible time-frame? Or, at least, keeping a record of the new words that you have learnt so that you can refresh your memory from time to time - before you end up forgetting them all?! Well, obviously, if you could make your own electronic flashcards, they would make one ideal tool for this. (Aside from continuous practice in reading and communicating in the language at every possible opportunity.) After a lot of research and a fair bit of trial and error with other software, I finally settled on the highly customizable StudyMinder Flash Cards I am not going to describe all the features and benefits of the StudyMinder Flash Cards electronic flashcards software here. You can just as easily check out the link above to find out the details. I will just summarize what I personally like about the software: 1. (And most importantly:) A one-time fee allows you to use the software for life. So there are no recurring subscription charges. 2. The software works offline. You just download it to your Windows-based Desktop or Laptop PC. 3. Of course, you can make your own cards with whatever information you like, on whatever subject you are trying to learn. The cards are very easy to make and they are highly customizable. 4. The software uses the Leitner Method of Flash Card Study (or the "Learning Box" system, as It is sometimes called.) This is basically the crux of any flashcard system - paper-based physical cards or any other kind. You need to be able to jumble up the cards and you need to be able to progress them through the learning boxes. Basically, what you end up doing is concentrating your limited available time for study in the most effective way. You concentrate your time on the cards in boxes 1 and 2. They are the ones you haven't learned very well yet! As the cards progress through the boxes, you spend less and less time on them. But do check the ones in Box 5 from time-to-time as this helps to improve your long-term memory retention of the information on the cards in question. The important thing here is that ANY TIME you get a card wrong, WHATEVER box it is in, it MUST go straight back to Box 1. EVERY TIME!!! (You just have to be religious with this, as the software will not do it for you...) 5. Oh... And this is the really neat thing that I like: Sharing the card sets that you have made with anyone else, (provided that they have the StudyMinder Flash Cards software installed on their own PC,) is an absolute breeze!! All you need to do is to take a copy of the .xml file for the card set in question - and give it to them! Sorry... I am not getting any commission out of this. I just wanted to share! The screenshot below shows the StudyMinder Flash Cards software that I am currently using, with a new set of cards for the Thai language that I have just started working on. (I generally start a new set, every time I get to around 300 cards in the previous set. ) Hmmm... 20 sets with, let's say, 250 cards in each set? That must be about 5,000 cards that I have made over the last four years. All I need to do now is to learn all of the contents!! One small suggestion for improvement: It would be nice to see an Android app. version of StudyMinder Flash Cards for mobile phones and the like?
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Welcome, to the Shinkansen!! :D
smb commented on smb's blog entry in Vic Rolfe's Art, Photography and Travel Blog - (formerly smb's Blog)
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A really heavy tropical downpour approaching the Limin Venture at anchor near Padang, Smatra in Indonesia.
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A heavy tropical rainstorm approaching the Limin Venture
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A really heavy tropical downpour approaching the Limin Venture at anchor near Padang, Smatra in Indonesia. -
A collection of pictures of some of my favorite dogs
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From the album: Dogs
Sara, one of my rescue dogs in the Philippines, making herself quite at home on the kitchen bench at the house that I rent in Imus, Cavite. My apologies for the slight blurriness of this photo but Sara is a bit camera shy and it is quite hard to get a decent photo of her. She has a very pleasant smile in this one, so I decided to post it anyway. -
A tree frog sitting on the gate to the kitchen of the house that I rent in Imus, Cavite, Philippines.
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'Looks good! And it's great to see you back in action!
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From the album: Manila, Philippines
The photo was taken from a high rise condominium in Adriatico Street, Ermita, Manila - looking out towards Malate with the Manila Yacht Club and the Mall of Asia in the background. -
Manila Bay at Night with departing Cruise Ship
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From the album: Manila, Philippines
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From the album: Manila, Philippines
The photo was actually taken on New Year's Day, 2019. They always have a chorus somewhere in the arrivals area at Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) in Manila (MNL) around the festive season. And very nice it is too when you have just got off the plane! -
From the album: Manila, Philippines
The queue for taxis at the Arrivals area of Terminal 2, Ninoy Aquino International Airport, Manila, on New Year's Day, 2019 The photo only shows a very small part of the queue, which doubles back on itself. Based purely on past experience and the absolute paucity of taxis at the time, I would estimate the queue to have been about five or six hours long, at the time of this photo. (Around 23:00hrs.)
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