To hear English pops with lyrics

According to the recent implementation of Google document, I attempted to create lyrics with my English songs. Indeed, this implementation enables us to see documents from our cellularphone. Immediately after knowing it, I started to create scripts or lyrics about English singers.

Once I completed some songs, I found that many of sentences are meaningless with respect to grammatical sense... orz

FYI: If you try to create same things, I recommend the songs would be chosen from your favorites.

To do by myself, even if I'm not professional..

(This is my trial translation of this article in my blogs.)

Recently, I cook my dish, play the piano and create program coding by myself. They're inefficient manner, because we can choose other options in general. Indeed, I'm a beginner in those areas!(>o<)

But, these attempts are useful for me with the following reasons:

1) I have a good time to create those things, even if the results are not good.
2) I can imagine what is the key to improve my results.

Of course, I won't earn a living with them, and would do them for gettin' relaxed to me. Nevertheless, I have many chances to talk with my friends about my hobbies. I'd like to appreciate them for all my friends!

"contradiction"

I was asked about the definition of "contradiction" in math or logic. Roughly speaking, it's defined that both a proposition A and denied proposition A' are true. In Japanese math class, we face it in junior highschool or highschool in the context that "prove that square root of 2 is irrational number."

In explaining it, I found that the word "contradiction" decomposes 3 parts: "contra"+"dict"+"ion." Let us review in French.

-"contra" comes from a preposition "contre" in French, and it means like "against" in English.
-"dict" comes from the verb "dire" in French, and it's "say" in English.
-"ion" is used in creating femenine noun in French. We can find many nouns finishing "-ion" in English, and they originate French words, in general. (ex. information, installation, and so on..)

In Japanese, we say "Mu-jun" for the word "contradiction." "Mu" is sword and "Jun" is shild, and it seems to originate in Chinese.

dictation/dictée

(Here is a trial translation of this article into English.)

I practice dictation for my TOEIC test recently, and found that it was much efficient way to improve my listening skill. It's certain that I KNOW this way of studying and its efficiency, but I've not tried it until now...
Indeed, dictation in French is easier than in English for me, caz there're more exceptional rules about English pronouciation rather than French. Anyway, I'll continue this method for the time being.

金・銀

I was asked about some translactions in French by my friends. They wanted to know French expressions about '金'. Indeed, there're 2 kinds: One is 'gold,' and the other is 'money.'

In French, 'gold' in English is or, and 'money' in English is argent. Before verifying with French dictionary, I returned my answers to them like above.

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Because I didn't remember quickly a translation of 'silver' in English into French, I checked with my dictionary. The answer for this question is argent. i.e. French people use a word argent for '銀'(silver) and 'お金'(money).

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日本語で説明します（I'm trying to explain the above in Japanese here./J'essaye du expliquer en japonais ici.)

「お金」は「金」という文字を使いますね？英語でいうgold。
一方、フランス語では「お金」を表す語に「銀」という文字を当てます。
英語ではmoneyですが、これは「金」(gold)でも「銀」(silver)でもありませんね。

ちょっとした語源チェックでした♪