Lundi 18 mai 2009 1 18 /05 /Mai /2009 22:49
This is the extract I chose. I found it here.
First I wanted to took a music lyrics, but I thought it would'nt be long enough, so I took an extract frome Harry potter (I won't spoil the end, I promise).


"Harry went down to breakfast the next morning to find the three Dursleys already sitting around the kitchen table. They were watching a brand-new television, a welcome- home-for- the-summer present for Dudley, who had been complaining loudly about the long walk between the fridge and the television in the living room. Dudley had spent most of the summer in the kitchen, his piggy little eyes fixed on the screen and his five chins wobbling as he ate continually. Harry sat down between Dudley and Uncle Vernon, a large, beefy man with very little neck and a lot of mustache.
Far from wishing Harry a happy birthday, none of the Dursleys made any sign that they had noticed Harry enter the room, but Harry was far too used to this to care. He helped himself to a piece of toast and then looked up at the reporter on the television, who was halfway through a report on an escaped convict: "... The public is warned that Black is armed and extremely dangerous. A special hotline has been set up, and any sighting of Black should be reported immediately." "No need to tell us he's no good," snorted Uncle Vernon, staring over the top of his newspaper at the prisoner. "Look at the state of him, the filthy layabout! Look at his hair!" He shot a nasty look sideways at Harry, whose untidy hair had always been a source of great annoyance to Uncle Vernon.
Compared to the man on the television, however, whose gaunt face was surrounded by a matted, elbow-length tangle, Harry felt very well groomed indeed. The reporter had reappeared. "The Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries will announce today --" "Hang on!" barked Uncle Vernon, staring furiously at the reporter. "You didn't tell us where that maniac's escaped from! What use is that? Lunatic could be coming up the street right now!" Aunt Petunia, who was bony and horse-faced, whipped around and peered intently out of the kitchen window.
Harry knew Aunt Petunia would simply love to be the one to call the hotline number. She was the nosiest woman in the world and spent most of her life spying on the boring, law-abiding neighbors. "When will they learn," said Uncle Vernon, pounding the table with his large purple fist, "that hanging's the only way to deal with these people?" "Very true," said Aunt Petunia, who was still squinting into next door's runner beans. Uncle Vernon drained his teacup, glanced at his watch, and added, "I'd better be off in a minute, Petunia. Marge's train gets in at ten."
Harry, whose thoughts had been upstairs with the Broomstick Servicing Kit, was brought back to earth with an unpleasant bump. "Aunt Marge?" he blurted out. "Sh - she's not coming here, is she?" Aunt Marge was Uncle Vernon's sister. Even though she was not a blood relative of Harry's (whose mother had been Aunt Petunia's sister), he had been forced to call her "Aunt" all his life. Aunt Marge lived in the country, in a house with a large garden, where she bred bulldogs. She didn't often stay at Privet Drive, because she couldn't bear to leave her precious dogs, but each of her visits stood out horribly vividly in Harry's mind. At Dudley's fifth birthday party, Aunt Marge had whacked Harry around the shins with her walking stick to stop him from beating Dudley at musical statues.
A few years later, she had turned up at Christmas with a computerized robot for Dudley and a box of dog biscuits for Harry. On her last visit, the year before Harry started at Hogwarts, Harry had accidentally trodden on the tail of her favorite dog. Ripper had chased Harry out into the garden and up a tree, and Aunt Marge had refused to call him off until past midnight. The memory of this incident still brought tears of laughter to Dudley's eyes."

My audio record could be found here
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Samedi 3 janvier 2009 6 03 /01 /Jan /2009 11:53

Hello this is Steve Kauffman here. Talk about something little different today always related to language. We’re here at thelinguist.blog.com.

Today I went for a haircut. My barber talks a lot. Sometimes he even stops cutting just to talk which I find mildly annoying. One the other hand I’m always entertained for thirty minutes while he cuts my hair. He does a good job and charges me eighteen dollars, which is not the cheapest, but not the most expensive haircut in Vancouver. He told me that he came to Canada as a sixteen year old twenty years ago.

He went to hairdressing school and then worked for a chain of hair salons for five years in different locations in the city.

He got to know the personalities of different kinds of clients. He didn’t like working in the heavily Chinese district of Richmond because, in his words, the customers would arrive late and expect to be served right away. If they were not served immediately, they assumed that the customer who was being served in their place had paid extra. He did not like the pressure of that situation.
He eventually opened his own shop in North Vancouver. He said that he made sure to learn all about the subjects that his clients were interested in, from fly fishing to the stock market. He knew that if customers liked him, they would come back.
After twenty years in Canada, dealing with English speaking Canadian clients, his English is just terrible. His pronunciation, and use of words, structure, (), are all quite poor. When he talked about a leading politician and his wife, "he" and "she" were regularly used wrong.

I had trouble understanding whom he was talking about. People who are not used to Chinese accents must have trouble understanding him. His English is poor even by the standards of his native Hong Kong.
So, what is the conclusion? He doesn’t represent everyone but just being immersed in the language and talking the language will not necessarily improve your language skills. You need to want to improve. You need to have a deliberate program of improvement. And, you need to listen.
On the other hand, my barber, has been successful at building up a customer base, and did not seem to feel inhibited in any way by his poor English. He was a communicator, although a better talker than a listener. I have not suggested to him that he join the linguist.

Par Laetitia C.
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Dimanche 28 décembre 2008 7 28 /12 /Déc /2008 15:29
This is my transcription of a video about Photoshop Cs4. I tried to do my best but there are always some blanks. I put some words into brackets because I wasn't sure if they were right or not.


Photoshop cs4







Video transcription :

 

Hi, my name is Richard Harrington and welcome to this edition on photoshop cs4 sneak peek.

Today, we will take a look at some of the new features inside of photoshop cs4

Now (we’ll gonna) start with the user interface. When you launch cs4 it’s gonna look significally different. Now, these differences (could) take a while (after) you used to, but I found after using it for a bit it’s much faster. Let’s take a look at some of the cool new things inside of the latest version of photoshop. Now, when you launch photoshop, you (gonna) know this that there are no longer pallets. Everything is switch to a take-out tab based and these are know actually panels. So things they () quite clearly together. And as you change workspaces window workspace you’ll see that the different tools will come up for the particulary task that you’re working on. Now you can also use this workspaces for a (handing many year) opening upper Right corner. And these a () you can switch. The first three here are really gonna change how photoshop presents the information. The essential is the workspace that you will use most of the time and this shows you everything in photoshop and gives you the Most commonly used panels by the (fault/fact). The basic workspace is very limited and actually hide several elements from the menus For example you choose the basic workspace (Cmo key) actually goes missing for the MH mode. Now you can always choose to see these elements again, but basic is really just that for a basic user who is looking the simplified the photoshop interface.

The last options you’ll see there is what’s new in cs4?

And when you choose this option, you don’t actually change several elements of the menu.

You know this that thing are actually color coated and everything that you see in blue is indicating that the feature is new or updated. So this is a great way to actually discover what’s new in cs4. Now, I’m go ahead in Switch back to the essential workspace so we are using the default workspace. The other workspaces that I listed (double o) offer particularly tasks. The storage magnify the menus but do change which panels you see. So for example if I wanna do color correction I’ll just choose color and tone and you’ll see that certain panels become available.

This new workspaces are really tasks based so if you’re working in video, choose the video workspace. If you’ll gonna be doing some proofing, choose proofing, and painting, etcetera

These are there to make it easier to call up just the tools you gonna need for a particular job.

Now as you’re working with it, you’ll discover some new things that had happened. Photoshop cs4 really takes advantages of open gl. So if you’ve got a powerful graphics card, you’ll gonna see some cool things happening. One of these things is canvas rotation. Now, long time users are used to want to press the r key, the table tool slant. Not anymore. You know get the rotation tool, which allows you to actually rotate your view.

As I click here, you’ll see that you can turn the canvas, and a new compass is indicating which way you are looking. Now, you may/might be say, why would I turn the canvas?

Now, this makes it a lot easier if you’re using a tablet, you wanna paint, or you’re (tried) a really () particular area and you find yourself turn(ing) your (riss) on comfortably

The rotate canvas option is really just that, you can turn the canvas and hold your mouse in (the normal) way you are working, and it’s quite useful. But if you wanna go back to a normal view just go ahead and click the reset view and it actually go ahead and square back up. So, very straight off.

Zooming is also change so we can go ahead and select the zoom tool, press Z for zoom and if you click it continues to zoom in on image. Now, one of thing you note is as you use the hand tool is that you can still drag around. But if you grab and drag, the pixels actually freely floats, like () image.

This is very natural. When using tools like the hand tool, and magnification, you can actually float the image and throw around the canvas as you’re working. This is nice instead of clicking and dragging repeatedly you just click, wind up and throwing and let it float to the place that you want. Simply click again and () actually stop overtime virtual gravity will do the job. This works quite nicely.

Another thing you note if as you zoom in it’s once ago above six hundred percent you actually start to see a pixel grid and you see it quite well here.

This (wind/whide) don’t (prend) but what the useful for(m) is as you are doing cloning or really try simple exact color this helps you to spot that color and really zooming/zoning on it

So what’s the (magnification) () goes above six hundred percent you can actually go riding near and click this. Now as you continue zoom you know this actually zoom farther right now in fact photoshop now supports zoom level of upped to three thousand two hundred percent. You see right here we have () change zoom level right inside the options bar as well. So all (along match is) dezoom and get around that image as you navigate. Now your panels here are very flexible. If you want, you can go ahead and (take) things off and () come free and this is actually free floated.

If you wanna (dot?) something back with it just drag in on top until it turns blue and release. You’ll see that they (dot?) together.

Simply going back in choosing a new preset for workspace will (rearrange) your panels back to the default values. If you decide you want more room you can go ahead and (dot) to (elements) together and know this the entire user interface adapts intelligently. This is really useful. Along this (fact?) we can actually rearrange several windows. If you have a lot of documents open, you can start enjoying them together in the tasks. Let’s go ahead here and choose window and select a particular document switch to up. You see we’ve got that. But if you have several files open, you can get inconvenient. One quickly the switch is just to command tiller a lot of switching between opened documents. That’s nice but you can also see all your documents in one time.

If you go ahead up to the options bar here, you know this that we have a new bar near called arrange documents. This does just that. Let’s you take notable open documents and arrange them on screen. I go and click and actually choose different sorts of styles here.

We have () we cancelled all and if I choose that pose (element) to one documented here

Let’s go and press F in circular forescreen notes and you see right there that the documents are (cancelled/consolidated?). If you want to, we can also say let’s go to a for-up view and it would actually arrange the windows into a for-up arrangement. We go ahead and choose float all in windows and with some of the () documents we can then choose options like here the () for-up. Know this that the documents intelligently rearrange. We see a first document here and any others are (nested) together with tabs. If you want we can go ahead and choose to consolidate this all into one window with consolidate all and you see that quickly takes all open documents and puts them () tabs across the top. This is useful because () on (corner). () switch back and (for) between several windows you can simply have one window visible and consolidate them all into a single document. Click the green or expand button there and () actually field the all screen; this makes it really easy to just work in photoshop, without having a worry about your desk toper (desk-upper?) other things double o. Now, one last thing that I like are spread loaded keys. This works pretty well. Let’s say you have the brush tool selected and you are starting to brush; and you say “oh hem () brush ( like () (upper). If I just hold the I key down, it switches to the high (upper/dropper) and when I release this actually switches right back to the brush tool. So, that’s a little bit of a change. In the past you press the I key in switch to the tool and I have to press B to switch back to the brush. But right now we have spread loaded keys. So let’s say you’re in the middle of making a selection with the marker tool and you decided that before you made that selection here, we’ve got a selection () you wanna do a little change like rotate the canvas. No big deal, I can hold down the R key and choose to the rotate canvas command and when I release, () cause right back to the marker tool.


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Samedi 6 décembre 2008 6 06 /12 /Déc /2008 17:42
This is the first version of my 2 minutes oral presentation in English.

link

And the second version:

link

I tried to have an outline this time. I'm very sorry for the bad quality of the sound, I don't own a real recorder.
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Samedi 6 décembre 2008 6 06 /12 /Déc /2008 17:35
I found some problems with the layout of the brochure:

P4, in the “Objective” paragraph, put an uppercase at “one”.

 

P5, “studies pursuances”, put pursuances in bold

The spaces between the squares of color and the titles of categories are not the same.

 

P6, “teachers status”: put an uppercase at “professional”



I looked for others school brochures to find some sentences.
These are some sentences which maybe could be used:
 

…is an interdisciplinarity….program providing students with a strong foundation in…..

 

The curriculum’s common core represents…

 

The… program emphasizes:

 

…cover a variety of…areas in:

Graduates of….engineering…department work in diverse industries. They improve….ans they increase…They create…

 

…provide an in depth education in engineering principles built on…and encourage students to apply what they learn trough projects, internships…

 

More than…percent of… are enrolled in…

 

Students in this program gain the depth of knowledge and the skills needed for….

 

This program enables students to…

 

These degrees are open to qualified students in…

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