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Ed Davey's speech to LibDem Conference

2024-09-23 15:25:06 | Listening
This is note to self. I'm too tired to do blogging today. I'm going for a walk. It's quite nice weather.

Key note speech of Sir Ed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bBiwnlRBPI

Ed Davey's speech to Liberal Democrat Conference
https://www.libdems.org.uk/news/article/ed-davey-speech-2024
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A cult gathering

2024-09-22 04:22:06 | Listening
It's a cult. That's why their words are easy for monkeys to listen to. Monkeys are easily deceived by such tricksters.

Reform UK conference highlights: Eminem, conspiracy theories and a plan to modernise – video
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/video/2024/sep/20/reform-uk-conference-highlights-eminem-conspiracy-theories-and-a-plan-to-modernise-video

Monkeys can't memorise words, even being able to catch words...
<words>
vet - we will be vetting candidates rigorously at all levels
[Collins](British)If someone is vetted, they are investigated fully before being given a particular job, role, or position, especially one which involves military or political secrets.
bigot < bigoted(adj) - you are bigots!
[Collins]Someone who is bigoted has strong, unreasonable prejudices or opinions and will not change them, even when they are proved to be wrong.
get off to a good/bad start

Rupert Lowe - conspiracy theorist
subversive
[Collins]Something that is subversive is intended to weaken or destroy a political system or government.
Council on Foreign Relations CFR
crony
[Collins]You can refer to friends that someone spends a lot of time with as their cronies, especially when you disapprove of them.

Lee Anderson is against TV licence fee! It's same technique as NHK party...
thoroughly
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Mum's reaction on early release

2024-09-13 07:20:49 | Listening
This monkey has been busy and lazy already. It doesn't have ears to hear the mum's words....

'Absolutely sickening': Mum reacts to early release of son's killer
https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/cy54xlpvl72o

<missed to hear>
I feel totally sick to my stomach
serving months
all ... letters
fair enough let petty crimes out

<words>
sickening
probation
heartrending/heart-rending
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Liam Gallagher vs Kids

2024-09-07 01:07:05 | Listening
Learning English from LG. His English is not difficult for children, but for monkeys.
4 or 5 years old pre-schoolers speak English better than me. I need at least 4 or 5 more years to be like them. No way.

Liam Gallagher vs Cute Kids
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2p1Q3vDnfA

It's a 6 year old video. The children must be grown now. It has about 4M views now.
Big Shaq or Man's Not Hot sounds one-hit wonder 6 years ago.

He said 'do you know what I mean' again!

Sometimes they take credit for it.
[Collins] If you get the credit for something good, people praise you because you are responsible for it, or are thought to be responsible for it..

rub it in
[Collins](informal)to harp on (something distasteful to a person, of which he or she does not wish to be reminded)

I've been obsessed with Liam Gallagher since the reunion statement. Oasis reunion is just comedy.
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Brian May talks stroke and documentary

2024-09-05 13:48:44 | Listening
The documentary is about the culling of badgers!! I know he supports nature conservation.
[quote]the broadcast of a BBC One documentary fronted by Sir Brian about his campaign to protect badgers from being culled.[unquote]

Queen guitarist Brian May suffers minor stroke
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp9rl7d575xo

Health hiccup… plenty of bombshells in the documentary
https://brianmay.com/brians-soapbox/2024/09/health-hiccup-plenty-of-bombshells-in-the-documeentary/

<words I missed to hear>
Frimley (Hospital) - Frimley, Surry... I see, an air plane...
(anything) surrounding
it'll clutter up my inbox
at odds [Collins]If someone is at odds with someone else, or if two people are at odds, they are disagreeing or quarrelling with each other.
right
the most

<words I didn't get the meaning when I hear>
out there
hiccup [Collins]You can refer to a small problem or difficulty as a hiccup, especially if it does not last very long or is easily put right.
grounded
in that corner - in a (tight) corner[Collins]in a situation which is difficult to deal with or escape from
whole deal
some quarters [Collins]To refer to a person or group you may not want to name, you can talk about the reactions or actions from a particular quarter.

Nooooo... Who Wants to Live Forever is rubbish. awful. terrible...
[quote]He wrote hits including We Will Rock You, Who Wants to Live Forever and Flash, and co-wrote others.[unquote]

Flash is excellent though. One of the best movie sound tracks. My favourite May song is Keep Yourself Alive. That's a masterpiece.

Gordon's alive, keep yourself alive, Sir Brian.

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Liam Gallagher interview 2

2024-08-29 16:49:20 | Listening
It's a BBC official clip. It's a short interview.

Oasis: Liam Gallagher discusses band reunion in 2016
https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/cje2zje0k85o

words failed to catch:
ain't - I ain't changing - the sound skipped a bit
reckon - I reckon our kid would have to change, wouldn't he
I sit at home - the sound skipped a bit
razzmatazz

He likes using 'you know what I mean'.
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A prolific shoplifter

2024-08-29 15:09:38 | Listening
Even if I listen twice, it's not big difference. I miss same words.

'I stole to order', £300-a-day former shoplifter tells BBC
https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/c86lvy5z8vxo

I missed hearing the following words:
leather
Lego
cleaned
to fund his addiction
addicts
drugs
caught
honey
Tia Maria
mate
with my bag full of

I could catch but I couldn't get the meaning when I hear:
prolific
I was only ever inches away from it
conviction

I couldn't catch only what the shoplifter say, but also the reporter...
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A flower?

2024-08-29 11:09:50 | Listening
The super rare orchid flower reminds this.

A flower?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GytFAdz9xw

I've been listening this a thousand times, but I've never done it's dictation and haven't research the meaning.
The lyrics had been just a sound for me without meaning. Actually, some lines have no meanings and just word play.
And I cannot catch pronouns, articles, connections, modal verbs, verb be... as always. I cannot speak and listen such small words in a quick manner.

Even it's a dictation and not correct, I cannot write down many lines due to copyright.

flutter byes
gutter flies

Fly away, you sweet little thing, they are hard on your trail
They are going to change you into a human being
All change!

mum to mud to mad to dad
dad to dam to dum to mum
dad diddly office
mum diddly washing

You are full of ball
Let me hear your lies
We're living this up to the eyes

up to the eyes - > up to one's eyes = extremely busy

What a masterpiece!
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Liam Gallagher interview

2024-08-28 00:58:39 | Listening
The interview like this is one of the listening sections of Cambridge English Test. I need to be able to catch these conversation if I take the test.

LG interview - not official clip [added] the interviewer is Jo Whiley.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YANf5_s4TKs

- [join us then for] another In Concert. very special one this time and this is the man [who's going to be] leading the way. [it's] Liam Gallagher.
Hello
- You right?
I'm good, yeah
- I've got your set list in front of me now. so I can look [through and see] what you're playing tonight [for] the concert. How did you get put [this] together? what [were] you thinking as you chose the song[s]?
Always got to start [with] Rock N Roll Star [that's the must and then] followed by Morning Glory [and] I think [it's] like [a] football match. [if] you can get [if] you can score six goals [in the] first half I'm not saying [you take your foot off the gas of that] you know whatI mean [in the] second half [if] you don't win [if] you just win six and [that and it's] kind [of] I think for me you got [to] come out [blazing] man
- so where do you go to [in] your head [when you're] doing [this] nostalgic stuff [with] slide away [some might say]do you feel sad when you do those songs or do you [feel] proud?
Just emotional you know I mean I don't feel sad cause oasis [by oasis was] not [a] sad thing [it was] it was glorious you know what I mean it was like [nothing to be] sad [about man it gave me a] great life [I went] around the world [and met] loads of great people [and still doing it] today so [there's] nothing to be sad [about it's] pure [euphoric] I just want to [do the] song [of justice and] sing them as good as I can you know what I mean
- and, [when] you're doing
I mean I never really actually I never wrote [them so] it's hard for me [to get] really attached [to] I don't know what it about you know what I mean but all I know is that they mean a lot [to] people so [I kind of just] want to just give that emotion to what it is you know what I mean
- [tell me] about [a] gig that you did [where there was] someone really famous someone [that meant] a lot to you so you went out [when you went out there] you were really quite terrified
Ringo come to see us once that's right [all right] Ringo come see us in the Hammersmith Apollo 'cause Zak was in the band [and I couldn't it] he come backstage when I [to leg it out of the room I was going look and he went] 'where are you going' I said 'I can't handle you man' just got give us a shout I was like 'give me a shout when he's gone
- what's the most difficult song for you to sing
if you talk about Live Forever [man] Live Forever that always reminds my mum even though she's still here and that you know what I mean just just that's tough one I think
- she means everything to you?
[Without doubt yeah] she just wants me to stop swearing that is her main thing she's not my [ ] if I have another hit or whatever [or do whatever or she's not in] just stop swearing. I'm sick [of it]
- so why are you still swearing?
cause I like it, [my know] I like swearing
-[have you got] family coming down tonight?
[um] I got my kid coming, Gene's here now, obviously, [my missus] here, my mum she's not interesting [in any of this non sense]
- so she will [be] watch[ing on the Red Button]
Obviously she'll be doing all that
- excellent [all right] have fun
[Nice]

take your foot off the gas [Cambridge]to do something with less effort and determination
euphoric [Collins]If you are euphoric, you feel intense happiness and excitement.
my missus = my wife

CC cannot catch Oasis, Hammersmith and Zak, but Ringo! CC also cannot catch mum or missus. CC is American.
Gene is his son. Red Button must be BBC Red Button. I thought the interview was about BBC Radio2 In Concert, but Red Button is for telly... Red Button sounds old technology and LG looks younger.
Anyway, I'm much worse than CC. It's difficult to write down fast casual conversation.
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Monkey

2024-08-27 03:04:25 | Listening
If you say Monkey in the UK, some certain age group remind this.

Monkey (TV series)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-SUoHmpRdM

<dictation>
In the worlds before monkey, primal chaos reigned.
Heaven sought order, but the phenix can fly only when its feathers are grown.
The four worlds formed again yet and again as endless eons wield and passed.
Time and [a] pure essences of heaven, the moistures of the earth, the power of the sun and the moon
All worked upon a [such] rock [old us] creation and it became magically fertile.
That first egg was named Thought. Suddhodana Buddha the father Buddha said "with our thoughts we make the world".
Elemental forces caused the egg to hatch. From it then came a stone monkey. The nature of monkey was irrepressible.

Born from an egg on a mountain top
The punkiest monkey that ever popped
He knew every magic trick under the sun
To tease the Gods and everyone have some fun

I'd thought "funkiest monkey" for long... I couldn't hear "to" before tease...

This TV programme was for children, of course. I couldn't catch some basic words which children can easily understand. I'm too monkey...
I cannot stop reading the pile of the comments of the YouTube.
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A Party In Meltdown

2023-10-29 11:39:23 | Listening
Farageも出てくるTory Conferenceのまとめビデオ。
PodCastで聞いてはいたのですが、改めて映像を見て、こんな人たちの発言だったんだなーという感じ。

Behind The Scenes At Tory Conference: A Party In Meltdown
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAwcZK_Y6ro

これを30秒でしゃべるんですよね。30分超の番組のディクテーションは情報量が多すぎて全部は無理。CCが訛りに対応できないので、答え合わせがしにくい。
Conservative Party Conference always a pleasure never a chore. Now this is probably the last conference before the next general election which if honest this a lot of likely leads pretty badly as things stand are they resigned to that what do they think they've achieved in the last 13 years. Do they think the country is really better off? And culture wars the veering off to the right is that basically The future of this party basically are in the know in the potentially dying days of a conservative government where the hell this a lot of heading and what does it mean for the rest of us.

indenture Farageの発言で、意味がわからなかった単語。意味を知れば文脈的にそうだよねという感じですが。キーワードがわからないとリスニングに弱気になる。

都合の悪いことに答えないときの一般人の言い回し。政治家はもっと上手に話のすり替えをしてますが。英語力が低い人はこれでー。
I’m not prepared to say. I refuse to say. I think most people understand what I’m referring to.
I don’t wish to be drawn on the subject. I don’t think it’s helpful to point the finger.

Enoch PowellとRivers of bloodが気になったところ。Wikiを見て納得。なんとなく推測はできたけど背景がわからなかった。教養。
Enoch Powell is obviously a very divisive figure. Personally what I think of him is a lot of stuff he was saying although very divisive at the time has come to pass.
[Owen]What? rivers of blood?
Not yet. No but massive demographic replacement in some of our bigger cities has occurred
But his prediction was that would cause rivers of blood like the river Tyber the streets of Britain would be rivers of blood would be ahead that never happened

No I didn’t say that happened there what I said is some world?? he came true so I do think he was right on some things in that sense some cities are no longer diverse they are no longer diverse in the sense that there isn’t a mix of cultures where it’s now completely replaced by one culture over another like where a lot of boroughs of London where the white working classes have been moved out in exchange for a lot of people from other…

A lot of councils in Central London now in some of those boroughs have been completely demographically changed to a completely alien culture to what it would be 50 years ago.
I mean that’s a very alien culture to what it was then isn’t it.
Alien as in unfamiliar.
I’m saying it’s to the culture of they are to the beliefs and belief structures of the area to the institution that once were there being replaced by new institutions now and new beliefs new ideologies new cultures new religions

I’m not saying it’s good or bad. It’s neither here nor there. Diversity is not inherently good it’s not inherently bad that’s not my point.
Why does a mix of cultures and world views provide something good necessarily?
But why let’s say there’s some archetypal brilliant world view the best possible world view right?
Would you then say oh let’s make it more diverse and mix it with other world views? No. It’s a tough issue tough question to answer really

ゲイの党員が会場から連れ出された記事とかは取り上げたかったですけど。
Suella Bravermanめちゃくちゃキモかったでした。髪の毛巻き巻きで、極右ポピュリスト発言を頑張ってましたが、見た目が移民ルーツなので超違和感。

最後のAndrew Marrの締めがよくまとまってましたー。さすがseasoned political commentator
Conservatives were always a power party I think not ideological party in many ways
If you ask yourself now what is the conservative philosophy it’s really no answer to that
As it were civic conservatism under Theresa May
We’ve had ego-driven populism under Boris Jonson
We’ve had patrician socially liberal but austerity-driven conservative under Cameron and Osborne
And we had the Truss explosion
And we’ve got Rishi Sunak as a kind of tech bro accountancy conservatism
Put all together there isn’t a single coherent philosophical thread running through it which makes it very hard because if you go into the country and say have another five years of us I think the country looks at the conservatives at the moment say five years of what exactly
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Wild Eyed Boy from Freecloud 1969

2022-05-08 18:03:22 | Listening
Beeb中最もLとRが多発するこの曲で、LとRの聞き取りテストをしてみます。

[後日追記]聞き書きなので引用ではないのですが。念のため減らします。
[..]
and the women once proud clutched the heart of the crowd
[..]
as the boulders smashed down from the mauntain’s hand
[..]
but the cottage fell like a playing card hell
[..]
and the missionary mystic of peace love
[..]

LとRも間違いましたが。もっと間違いました。もはや英語を聞き取れる耳ではない。
なんでいままでなんとかなると思っていたのかなあー。やばいなー。
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A Bridge Too Far - Horrocks speech

2022-04-30 18:10:34 | Listening
Beebはマイナーすぎるのでdictationしても答え合わせができません。
古くて有名な場面はたいていYouTubeに上がっていて答え合わせができます。

Bowieに飽きてきたので違うもの。最初に思いついたのが、Lieutenant-General Brian Horrocks。
肝心の笑いを取っているところがちゃんと聞き取れないので、この機会に答え合わせします。

Gentlemen, this is a story that you will tell your grandchildren and mightily bored they'll be.
The plan is called Operation Market Garden. Market is the airborne element and Garden is the ground forces. That's us.
Now, this is our position on the Belgian border, here.
Tomorrow, three airborne divisions will begin landing in Holland. Thirty five thousand men taking off from 24-hour fields in troop-carrying planes or towed in gliders.
The American hundred and first, here, around Eindhoven. [The] American eighty second, here, south of Nijmegen. And our own first airborne boys and Polish brigade here, Arnhem. 64 miles behind the enemy lines.
Now their job is to take and hold all the bridges in these three areas. Our job is to punch a hole through the German frontline, here.
And then right [....], up this road, linking up with each airborne division on the way.
Speed is the vital factor.
The plan is to rejoin Eindhoven in two to three hours. And Arnhem, in two to three days. That, Gentlemen, is the prize, bridge of the Rhine, the last bridge between us and Germany.
Kick off will be 14:35 hours tomorrow afternoon.
The Irish Guards under the command of Colonel Vandeleur will take the lead.
- Christ. not us, again.
What did you say to that, Joe?
-Delighted, sir. Truly delighted.
I've selected you to leader is not only because of your extraordinary fighting ability, but also because, in the unlikely event that the Germans ever get you, they will assume from your attire they've captured a wretched peasant immediately send you on your way.
Now maintaining the speed is our advance will no doubt be tough going as it's a single highway but no matter what we must reach those first airborne boys in 48 hours.
Gentlemen, I'm not saying that this will be the easiest party that we've ever attended.
But I still wouldn't miss it for the world.
I like to think of this as one of those American Western films. The paratroops lacking substantial equipment, always short of food, these are the besieged homesteaders. the Germans well they naturally are the bad guys and Thirty Corps, we, my friends, are the cavalry on the way to the rescue.

自動字幕も怪しいですが(2つの食い違う自動字幕とコメントから答え合わせしてます)、字幕を見ながら聞くと確かにその通りという感じ。
こんなにクリアなスピーチなのに、聞き取れていません。CAEはToo Farかも。
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Dave Lee Travis Show 20th October 1969

2022-04-29 17:52:14 | Listening
Dictationをしてみたものの。意味が通じない箇所多数。リスニング力のなさを痛感。

David, the record would you have them chart in Britain at the moment is that would be the biggest success today, isn’t it?
- My ONLY success today.
Well, wouldn’t say that. Tell us a little bit about you. Was it planned long time ago or is it very recent?
- Most people [presume..] it written because of anticipating the space shot, but in fact, it started last November and the recording of it started last December and it was finally finished in June, after which is released within three weeks which is very good going
So, right, now, you are not doing it in the studio, today
- No, No
Why is this?
- We'd need about five orchestras to get them, the right sound I think. That's possibly [pass] everybody’s budget.
Yeah. that could be true. Do you do live version of it when you travelling on
- Just with twelve string. Just with twelve string guitar
Yeah? And now with your little electronic gadget
- Yes. I use that too
That's it.
- then mention
[but the real, real] know too really.
Have you got anything that you are doing today’s program that is not on record
- Oh yeah. We’ve got a number that we [dug] up today, which was written about four years ago. hasn’t been out of the house. its the first airing its [over] had anywhere.
Really. Why it was not recorded?
- Why? My mother thought the lyrics were dirty
Are they?
- No. Not at all.
Oh, dear. What is it called?
- Very [serial]. Let me sleep beside you.
Can we hear it?
- Yes


2001 Space Odyssey UK release: 15 May 1968
Space Oddity release: 11 July 1969
Apollo 11 space shot: 16 July 1969



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London Bye Ta-Ta 1968

2022-04-17 15:37:53 | Listening
単語はあまり勉強にはならないのですが。
早すぎて口がついていけないので。只管朗読。

The boys in the clothes shop
sold me curry for a pound
His cardboard face is soggy
and his sellings thorny crown

cardboard face is soggyはこの意味かな?

(prenominal)
without substance
a cardboard smile

informal
lacking in spirit or positiveness
(以上引用はCollins。)

his sellingsの使い方がわからないー。
his selling isの短縮かな??もっと英語に触れないとだめだなー。

She loves to love all beauty
and she says the norm is funny
but she whimpers in the morning
when she finds she has no money

normの意味がわからないー。当時の流行語とか??
ずっとThe Laughing Gnomeのgnomeだと思ってましたが。発音が違うんですよね。聞き取り・・。

幻のシングル曲。1968年は最初の録音年。
1970年に再録音されたのに、The Prettiest Starに置き換わったようです。
なんかいろいろタイミングを逃した感じですが、まあまたそこがたまらない曲です。
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