Sunday, March 29, 2009

The Story

Ever since I started listening to Chinese music, I always had the pinyin lyrics with the English translation, if available. Then one day, it came to a point approximately a year ago when I realised that I understood a portion of what was being said and I could read at least half of the lyrics. Of course, there were the times when I really got into a song and there were no lyrics (pinyin and/or the translation) available online - but the Chinese lyrics were most often than not were. That begins the stage where I started to translate songs with much help from an online dictionary.

At first, I started with songs that I couldn't find online but as time went on, I also saw it as a way to further develop my Chinese as well as to practice it. In short, I began to translate any songs that I was into, whether or not I could find them online and I found that as time went on, I could translate more without the help of a dictionary. Even if I couldn't find the lyrics, I would just go onto YouTube and find the KTV video of it and copy the lyrics from there.

After a period of almost half a year, I had a good amount of my hard drive taken up by lyrics and I decided that it was time to post them online just in case my computer crashed and so I originally posted them here, but that may change to here soon enough, because the original one seems to have a problem with posting up entries with Chinese characters. Then, just a month or so ago, the side list was getting rather long so I decided to make a new blog to categorize them more nicely and that is what this is for.

All of my translated songs (except for a song in Cantonese which I added the pin yin for) are categorized by the singer by their most well-known name (mostly their English version). You can find them off to the side bar or just look to the following:
Last Update: 5 song(s) added on 16 June 2010
Total # of Songs Archived: 130

Exception(s):
[Will Be Listed Under the First Letter of the Title]
Ai Dao Xia Tian/愛到夏天 (Love Contract OST/愛情合約 OST)
Tong Hua/童話 (Cantonese Version)

Of course, a warning: I have only learned Chinese for two years, and even though I'm in 4th year Chinese due to me studying abroad in China for a semester, that means nothing. :) I skipped those years which is nice and all, but that also means there are some (a lot of) characters and grammar that I skipped learning. I translate everything with the help of online dictionaries for those words I don't know and from what I learn in Chinese class and there's always room for improvement. For at least half of the songs here, you most likely could find a better translation out there somewhere. This is just what I do for fun, a hobby, if you will, so don't blame me if something just stinks. Thanks much!

Some of my favorite sites to go to for translated lyrics:
Chinese Music Blog (some of my first translations are posted here)
Ting Dong
Jay-Chou.Net

Sunday, March 8, 2009

Artist: 0 - F

A CHORD HSIEH/謝和弦/XIE HE XIAN
請你不通嫌棄我 [Taiwanese/台語]
Sui Ran Hen Ba Le/雖然很芭樂
Wo Men Dou Cheng Le Da Ren/
我們都成了大人

AH SHIN/阿信 (MAYDAY/五月天)

Wen Rou/温柔

ANGELA CHANG/張韶涵/ZHANG SHAO HAN
Yin Xing de Chi Bang/隱形的翅膀

ANJO LEUNG/梁曉豐/LOENG HIU FUNG
Cin Bin Waan Faa/Qian Bian Wan Hua
/千變萬化

ARIEL LIN/ 林依晨/LIN YI CHEN
E Zuo Ju/ 惡作劇
Ying Huo Chong/螢火蟲

BEDOUIN SOUNDCLASH
1259 Lullaby [translation from English to Chinese]

BIBI ZHOU/
周筆暢/ZHOU BI CHANG
Ni Hao Ma/
你好嗎 (duet with Nicky Lee/ 李玖哲)
Ni Men de Ai/你們的愛
Shang Di Yao Guo de Ping Guo/上帝咬過的蘋果
Zhe Ju Hua/這句

CHEER CHEN/陳綺貞/CHEN QI ZHEN
Biao Mian De He Ping/表面的和平
Tai Duo/太多

CHRISTINE FAN/範瑋琪/FAN WEI QI
Yi Ge Xiang Xia Tian, Yi Ge Xiang Qiu Tian/範瑋琪 - 一個像夏天 一個像秋天

CINDI WANG/王心凌/WANG XIN YING
Zhe Jiu Shi Ai/
這就是愛

CLAIRE KUO/
郭靜/GUO JING
Goodbye

DESERTS CHANG/張懸/ZHANG XUAN
Bao Bei/寶貝

DYLAN KUO/郭品超/GUO PIN CHAO
Fang Qi/放棄 - Outsiders OST

ECHO/回聲樂團/HUI SHENG LE TUAN
Bei Ni Ai de Ke Wang/被溺愛的渴望

F.I.R./飛兒樂團/Fei Er Le Tuan
Lydia

FAHRENHEIT/飛輪海/FEI LUN HAI
Ji Mo Bao Zou/寂寞暴走
Liu Xia Lai/留下來
Mo Mo/默默
Ni Ying Gai Bei Zhen Xi/你應該被珍惜
Yue Lai Yue Ai/越來越愛
Zui Jia Ting Zhong/最佳聽衆

FISH LEONG/梁靜茹/LIANG JING RU
Fen Shou Kuai Le/分手快樂
Mei Tian Di Yi Jian Shi/每天第一件事
Nuan Nuan/暖暖

Artist: G - J

GENIE ZHUO/卓文宣/ZHUO WEN XUAN
Xiang Jia/想家

GIGI LEUNG/
梁詠/LEUNG WING KEI
Cuo Guo/
錯過

GUANG LIANG/王光良/MICHAEL WONG
Tong Hua/
童話

GUO DING/郭頂
Duo Duo/
朵朵

Xiao Xi Wang/
小希望

HE SHU YU/
何書宇
Hou Hui/後悔

HINS CHEUNG/張敬軒/ZEONG GING HIN
Huk Oi/酷愛
Jyun/

HUANG JING LUN/黃靖倫/JING WONG
Dan/
Si Hu Tong/死胡同
Yan Lei Xiao Le/
眼淚笑了
Wo Jiu Shi Zhe Yang/
我就是這樣

JAM HSIAO/
蕭敬騰/XIAO JING TENG
Shou Cang/
收藏

JANE ZHANG/
張靓穎/ZHANG JING YING
Mu Lan Xing/木蘭星 [Mulan OST]

JASON ZHANG/張傑/ZHANG JIE
Yuan Zou Gao Fei/
遠走高飛

JAY CHOU/周杰倫/ZHOU JIE LUN
Dou Xiang/稻香
Hei Se Mao Yi/
黑色毛衣
Hua Hai/花海
Kai Bu Liao Kou/開不了口
Shuo Le Zai Jian/說了再見
Qian Shan Wan Shui/
千山萬水
Qing Tian/晴天

JENNY YANG
Bu Gong Ping/不公平

JERRY YAN/
言承旭/YAN CHENG XU
Duo Chu Lai De Zi You/多出來的自由

Hei Ka Fei Ri Ji/黑咖啡日記
Lost Love

JJ LIN/林俊傑/LIN JUN JIE
Ai Yu Xi Wang/
愛與希望
Qi Dai Ai/期待愛 (with Kym Sha/金莎/Jin Sha)
Bu Dong/不懂
Dian Yi Ba Huo Ju/點一把火炬