June 19,2008
《About Bilingual - 關於雙語寫作》
This is some kind of unofficial announcement I think. Actually, I've planned to post this for quite a long time, but not for exactly the same reason. Well, I'll explain it. The original idea to post writings in bilingual is from my friend, Dimitri, who is now riding his bike to school as he planned. And I feel so pround of him to have such a great plan and really goes for it, bike to school from Moscow to UK. He keeps updating his blog as long as he got time and place to use internet. When I met Dimitri for the first time, I've already knew that he is actually sort of multilingual, who can speak not only the two common foreign languages in Taiwan, English and Japanese, but also the other rare one, Russian. If I was not wrong about my poor memory, he was also learning French and Spanish at the same time. So, it's not surprised at all to see his blog in bilingual anyway. Reading his blog also reminded me of my backlog, which also kept in bilingual although it's just very simple writing for saving time when I travelled abroad. Then I told myself 'why not try to rearrange the journal and reveal the unforgettable moments in details again?' That's one of the reasons why there are couples pieces of bilingual writing showing here.
這算是個非正式的公告吧!其實早在很久前就想開始用這種雙話的方式了,不過倒也不完全是為了相同的原因就是,所以現在就要來解釋一下囉。最先,會有這個點子是來自於一個計劃騎腳踏車上學的朋友,目前也正依著計畫騎腳踏車上學中的 Dimitri。任何人都會以有此朋友為傲吧,因為他所謂的騎腳踏車上學是指從莫斯科騎到英國!只要有時間也有網路,他就會沿路更新他的網誌,在這裡也順便替他打一下廣告囉。剛認識他時就知道他會的外語不只有常見的英、日文兩種,而是外加俄文和當時正在學的法文與西班牙文(如果沒記錯的話),所以看到他用雙語在寫網誌時也就不會特別的感到意外。這也讓我想起幾年前旅行所留下的遊記,也是中英文夾雜的啊!所以,為何不再度把庫存拿出來重新整理一下呢?這就是為何開始有雙語文章出現的原因之一。
另一個原因則是想讓自己更習慣這所謂的第二語言,因為擁有不同文法的兩種語言,是不該用「直譯」的方式在思考的,要用英文就得用英文去思考,而非先想中文再翻譯,這樣子理論上也可以進步的比較快。所以呢,我選擇先用英文去思考與練習寫作,要再翻成母語時,才會比較接近自己的原意。(不過,我真的要再度重申,即使是自己寫的東西,要逐字不漏的翻譯真是件困難的事啊!因為寫到這裡就開始不照「原文」來翻了。)我還記得國中的第一位英文老師教我們一個讓英文進步的方法,就是下課找人練對話,或是自言自語也行。雖然我沒有每天都那麼做,但卻在不知不覺中養成了習慣,那的確是有幫助的,至少我不像同學那麼討厭學英文,而且成績還不錯。我不敢說我的英文有多好,但至少這個外語在大多時候對我而言是有用的。
Is there any other reason? Yes, there is always some other personal issue, which I'd rather keep it as a note here to remind myself only. Anyway, it sounds a bit like the third birthday wish, doesn't it?
