Friday, June 4, 2010

Youtube Videos

Most of mine so far are more like snippets of life from Taiwan. If you woud like to view them click this

Under the screen you will see an attempted transciption of the dialogue for some of the videos. Click the arrows to the right and the full attempted transcription will appear. I will try to transcribe the dialogue from the videos, though, of course that is a lot more demanding than writing captions for photographs and mistakes will naturally occur. Essentially what I intend to do is to capture people's voices while I film this or that point of interest etc. You can see that is what I did with the FREE Chinese video. This will definietly be a more free-wheeling affair than the Pinyin Postcards project but will be valuable I think precisely because it will capture native speakers conversing spontaneously.

Another method would be to perform scripted material, which of course will be done much more carefully and with the aim of slowly expanding on known material.

I will delete rude comments and pornographic images and links from the youtube account as well. I don't mean to be prudish but definitely want to avoid those sorts of associations.

Thanks.