We wish you a Merry Christmas // Vos desitgem Bon Nadal

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We wish you a Merry Christmas

 

We wish you a Merry Christmas (2), we wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Vos desitgem Bon Nadal (2), vos desitgem Bon Nadal i Venturós Any Nou.

 

Good tidings we bring to you and your kin; we wish you a Merry Chistmas and a Happy New Year.

Portem bones notícies per a vosaltres i els vostres familiars; vos desitgem Bon Nadal i  Venturós Any Nou.

 

Now bring us some figgy pudding (2), now bring us some figgy pudding and a cup of good cheer.

Ara traieu-nos un tros de púding de figues (2), ara traieu-nos un tros de púding de figues i una tassa de bon ànim.

 

We won’t go until we get some (2), we won’t go until we get some, so bring it right here.

No ens n’anirem fins que no ens en traieu una miqueta (2), no ens n’anirem fins que no ens en traieu una miqueta,  així que porteu-nos-el ací.

 

So bring us some figgy pudding (2), so bring us some figgy pudding, and bring it right here.

Així que traieu-nos un poc de púding de figues (2), així que traieu-nos un poc de púding de figues, i porteu-nos-el ací.

 

Good tidings we bring to you and your kin; we wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Vos portem bones notícies, a vosaltres i els vostres familiars; vos desitgem Bon Nadal i  Venturós Any Nou.

 

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Traducció pròpia de la cançó  tradicional We wish you a Merry Christmas.

Notes: Vaig accedir a la la lletra en anglés a partir d’http://www.metrolyrics.com/we-wish-you-a-merry-christmas-lyrics-christmas-song.html. Amb este enllaç també podreu escoltar-la gràcies al vídeo que ahí figura.

He decidit no posar cap signe de canvi de vers (/ ) ni d’estrofa (//) per a facilitar la lectura a la major quantitat de lectors possible, des de xiquets de set anys fins a persones adultes que s’inicien en la lectura.

 

My Life is Mine // La meua vida és meua

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My life is mine

Lyrics and music: / Lletra i música: The Veltz Family

I’m gonna do my best to keep the rules as / long as I’m here. / Not gonna be the one that rains on parades. / Don’t want to be above and won’t allow / myself to be beneath my peers. / It’s not an attitude, it’s just a job I’ve got to / do to finish my race. //

 I’ve got a name, / a birth in time. / While I’m in the game / my life is mine. //

I truly hope that we can build together mutually throughout the years. / I’ll tell you everything I’ve learned, you can do the same /. But if you need me to less than I am to support your fears. / It’s nothing personal, but now you’re detrimental to the end of my days. //

I’ve got a name, / a birth date in time. / While I’m in the game, / my life is mine. // 

The second hand is ticking everybody’s walking, bitching birth to the grave,/ caught up in a spider web living in a social caste, / justifying doing nothing, milking pity, marching in the victime’s parade, / blaming time and place instead of running in a race that is ending fast. //

 I’ve got a name, / a birth date in time. / While I’m in the game, / my life is mine. //

Teacher, parent, lover, boss, don’t expect me to respect you more than me. / I can’t afford to bet on anybody but myself. / I hope you get me cause I’d love to hang arrround, but should I make 93. / All there’s gonna be is me and if I can help it, history will tell.

Vaig a fer lo millor que puga per a mantindre les regles tot el temps que estiga ací, / no serà lo que diguen les pluges, en les desfilades: /  ni vull que estiguen per damunt de mi, ni em faran possible / estar sota els meus companys. / No és només una actitud, sinó simplement una faena / que he de fer per a acabar la meua carrera. //

 Tinc un nom, / una data de naixement. / Mentres estic en el joc, / la meua vida és meua. //

Realment espere que puguem construir junts, recíprocament, al llarg dels anys. / Et diré tot lo que he aprés i tu pots fer lo mateix. / No és res personal, però ara em faries mal fins al final dels meus dies. //

 Tinc un nom, / una data de naixement. / Mentres estic en el joc,/  la meua vida és meua.  //

La segona mà s’atura a poc a poc mentres tots i totes caminen, sense pensar-s’ho dos voltes, del bressol a la tomba / i atrapades en una teranyina de la seua casta social: / justificant no fer res, mamant llàstima, marxant en la desfilada de la víctima, / culpant al temps i al lloc, però no corrent en una cursa que acaba ràpid. //

 Tinc un nom, / una data de naixement. / Mentres estic en el joc, / la meua vida és meua. //

Mestre, pare, amant, director, no espereu que vos respecte més que a mi. / No estic disposat a apostar més per ningú que per mi. / Espere que comprengueu per què m’encantaria esperar el temps, si no fóra perquè vull fer-ne 93. / Tot lo que faré des d’ara ho triaré des de mi, i si ho puc evitar, el temps ho dirà…

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Trad.  pròpia de l’anglés al valencià de la cançó My life is mine (The Veltz Family)

Nota: La lletra, segons informació d’Internet, havia sigut facilitada per Rafael (“Thanks Rafael for these lyrics”).

Vegeu http://www.lyricsmania.com/my_life_is_mine_lyrics_veltz_family_the.html.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

La vida és meva // Life is mine

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LA VIDA ÉS MEVA

Lletra i música: Berta Peñalver

Cada cop ho penso més, la vida és meva.
Si tu vols anar-te'n, vés, segur que no t'aturaré.
Sé que ha sortit malament, la culpa és meva, no?
He oblidat tot el que sóc per ser més teva i jo...

No, no pensaré el que he sigut.
Jo perseguiré un camí que m'indiqui sempre on ser feliç,
que em dugui cap a on vulgui,
que m'ensenyi els anys que ja he perdut,
tan lluny de mi.

Viure tant la soledat em fa ser freda.
Caure tant al mateix lloc em fa desconfiar de tot.
Cada dia feies que em sentís més buida.
No volies conservar la meva llum i sé que...

No, no pensaré el que he sigut.
Jo perseguiré un camí que m'indiqui sempre on ser feliç,
que em dugui cap a on vulgui,
que m'ensenyi els anys que ja he perdut, que he perdut.
Vull llançar-me al buit, no vull un passat que em faci tornar enrere.		LIFE IS MINE

Lyrics and music: Berta Peñalver

More and more each day I think it more, life is mine.
If you want to leave, go, I'm sure I won't to stop you.
I know it turned out badly, it's my fault, isn't it?
I forgot all my singularity for being more yours and I...

No, I won't think what I was.
I will chase a way that always shows me where to be happy,
that will take me towards I would want,
that will show me the years I already lost, so far from me

Living so much loneliness makes me to be a colder woman.
Falling so many at the same scene makes me to have no faith in anything.
Each day you made I felt more empty-headed.
You didn't want to conserve my light and I know that...

No, I think what I was...
I will chase a way that always shows me where bo be happy,
that will take me towards what I would want,
that will show me the years I already lost, so far from me.
I want to throw me on deaf ears, I don't want a past that makes me to go back.

 

Font: La lletra figura en http://viasona.cat/grup/berta/tan-al-limit/la-vida-es-meva.

 

 

Creators of dreams

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We converse with the professionals that hight-light tendency in Do it Yourself styles, matters and techniques so that they share their creations and they announce to us their projects. It’s what we will see in the future and, therefore, now is succeeding in the vanguard. We wanted to know what crossed their mind before managing to do. They are craftsmanship people and creators each minute of a day, and we want to learn from them.

 

Creators of dreams

 

What be based on the new creators? They tell us that their muses are nature, volums, the Eastern World, their fears, etc. Some of them, as Espaibuenrollo, assure us: “I see a cardboard and I detect that the object was already there”. We try it as well: we review a cardboard box, we look old fashioned collections of stamps, we grasp the pen… And we finish making sure what is obvious: they are the artists. After they remind us that we have other know-hows, we feel that art is generous.

They ready us the way for our carrying out of our innermost artist or, simply, they built the canal in order to our interest in their works.

All the pieces are unique. There is no mass-production, the quantities and craftsmanship are closed and very connected. They exist thanks to this interaction. We analyse different styles: Tánata uses colour and volume, the Aitor Saraiba is visceral, poetic and complex. Similar to the iconography of Pablo Salvaje, that found his own creativity expression in a special work of stamps [carvado in the original]. Also they try new combinations. As the proposal of Tresencaja, that ties up the technology of the 3D printers with the glass paper.

Another current tendency is the recovery of wastes. That’s how the team of L’Estoc gives new life to old pieces of house-hold goods. And if you want to make your own creations at home, there is no best way as the scrapbooking.

And who are the professionals more distinguished? Alberto Juárez, with a talent internationally recognized, and Lady Desidia, who accepted  designing of collections of “escrapear” (sic) papers. Both of them are with us in this number. And they are very, very creative.

 

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Traducció parcial de l’article Creadores de sueños, revista Interiores (no. 175, 2014, http://www.prismapublicaciones.com)

 

 

 

 

 

 

¡Quina meravella…! // What a wonder…!

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¡Quina meravella…!

¡Quina meravella sentir que la meua vida fluïx,

que la vida és meua,

que estic passant-m’ho bomba,

 

i tant…

 

que se me passen les hores volant…

What a wonder is feeling that my lives flows,

that life is mine,

that I’m having a whale of a time,

 

it’s so much…

 

that my hours flies…

 

No sé què passarà demà,

això sí,

em fascina sentir com el catxirulo

vola amunt i avall

sense perdre el fil de la vida,

ni caure en el parany de la moda: la crisi.

Ni sense empinar-se tant i tant que es poguera

trencar el fil.

I don’t know what will happen tomorrow,

but,

it’s fancinating the moment in which

I am flying the kite,

upwards and below

while I don’t lose the thread of life,

and I don’t fall in the trap in fashion: the crisis.

The kite doesn’t raise so much…

that the wire could has broken.

 

No sé com explicar-t’ho, amic,

si no és amb quatre paraules:

la vida és fantàstica.

I don’t know how to make my friend understood

otherwise I say to you with three words:

life is fantastic.

 

Nota: Obra personal amb traducció del valencià a l’anglés

New times

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Companies, more and more each day, prefer a contract in accordance with projects of specialized professionals that provide them the best service in time and type.

 

That’s the own mark that each professional could carve out on the Internet, and the opinion that users and customers will share about his quality services, will determine, in many topics, his or her future.

 

This tendency, on the rise, was the catapult that shoot up the birth and development of dedicating platforms to get in touch salaried with companies. (…) “A platform make you known possible and, also, than other users check that you are a good worker in your field”, reads [Jaime Fernández, cofounder of Guudjob, an app].

 

“The own community is who verifies the employee and the contractor quality. If any firm doesn’t do its payment, or if the service freelance quality to the concern is not on a par with the foresight, both of them will be out of the net”, confirms Sebastián Siseles, general manager of Freelancer.com for Spain and Latin America.

 

In that platform already has been published more than 6,5 million projects. Who contracts the freelance can negotiate in the agreement, with independence, the price, the periods and the details of each initiative and pay on-line when it would be satisfied with the result. The main countries where Spanish business people are hired are, in this order, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Spain, Vietnam, USA and United Kingdom. The Spanish independent workers are hired, overall, by offices of Spain, USA, United Kingdom, India, Australia, Canada and Germany.

 

It is not an easy business. For the stands, the great challenge is to avoid the concerns contact directly with freelances, jumping them therefore, their special assignment as intermediaries. For freelances, for their part, “the highly international competition, especially in fields as the web development, compel to maintain reasonable prices”, affirm sources of this sector.

 

In this context, to get a great volume is crucial. Guudjob, for the time being, choose that the two parties get in touch, and [the group] remains on the margin of the services payment. That is, it doesn’t recive any special assignment. “Later on, when we will bet a specific critical mass, we think about that business model makes sense to insert”, comments Mr. Fernández.

 

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Traducció parcial de l’article Los ‘freelance’ encuentran en Internet su mejor escaparate (http://www.expansion.com/2014/10/31/emprendedores-empleo/emprendimiento/1414782098.html)

 

Tricks of conversation

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Magic concepts

In front of an investor must resort to magic concepts as profitability, results, benefits, successes, to achieve, security, profit margin… These words have to be present in the conversation to appeal to his unconscious.

 

Positive conversation

It is what we were telling about smile [in another point of the article]. The people like to be with “good feeling” people so if we generate a positive sensation, the investor will have more interest to participate in your business.

Refuse you topics as the crisis, bad news, reviews, etc. Speak you always in a positive way.

 

Tell you stories

As Josepe Garcia reminds us, “Not yet it hasn’t discovered any antidote for the ‘Many times ago’. The symbolic language, the metaphorical language is fantastic for persuading. Likewise the comparisons are very graphic for reflectins an idea and for convincing: ‘It is as if the company was a sailing boat…'”.

 

Literal feedback

Use you the same words as your interlocutor to obtain the correct feedback of the talk: “This feedback has to be as literal as possible because in the moment you change any word, your speaker could think you haven’t known him or her”, explains García.

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Traducció parcial de l’article Ni tímidos ni arrogantes (http://www.emprendedores.es/crear-una-empresa/como-causar-buena-impresion-a-inversores).

 

El segle de les relacions horitzontals

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El 29 de setembre del 2014, el suplement Es, del diari català La Vanguardia (http://www.lavanguardia.com), portava un títol que em va atraure i que, fins i tot, em portà a traduir-lo en part.

Es titulava ¿Qué tipo de jefe tiene?¿Cómo se relaciona con él?

Ací teniu la traducció:

“The third generation of heads –reached [Eada Steven] Poelmans– is different because knowledge, very long, highlight the relations. The workers have to move the information to the chief”. This model adapts to the current tendencies, more net, when the physical or digital borders, the information flows and the new technologies velocity speed compels to drive and be in a continous adjustment to a new situations.

Change course in your business

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Five examples of enterprisers that gave a new direction to their initial activity another… And they survived!

 

Change course in your business

Can a screws company convert into a manufacturer of dental prothesis? You bet! Opposition to change is the worst for a business that is out of order and if a change of activity is essential, it would be a good idea a fast alter without any tremble of hands. Here you are five examples of enterprisers that knew how to re-focus their occupations in time.

 

Anything is unchangeable and even less in the jobs world. There is not a little number the quantity of companies that began with an economic model and finally were succesful with another very different. There are companyies very well-known such as the Keraben group, that began as a pesticides manufacturer and finished turning it into a world reference pottery recoverings. Or Abengoa, that started as an electric meters and now is one of the main Spanish and world engineering companies. Or, out of our borders, the emblematical case of IBM, that was near its disappearance till it knew how to re-focus as a technological services company…

 

Grounds to make the decision

The grounds for the re-focus can be varied, from the more basic of a mistake in the initial approach of the strategy to a normative change than can treat our model, or an upset in the market or a tendency modify amongst other possibilities.

 

Motivations are actually indifferent. The most important in this field is to be capable to recognize that business model is going bad: it requires a re-focus turn, to begin a precise way and, overall, without sticking to old references.

 

“Often the entreprisers persist in an idea of their business and they are not aware of the convenience of considering approaches to what they believe how should be the model. It’s a good idea to come closer to it with a more direct form, so the project could be adapt progressively to the reality the enterpriser could be find with”, explains Jordi Vinaixa, head of Instituto de Iniciativa Emprendedora of ESADE.

 

“It’s what I know like Christopher Columbus: it begins in a direction and with an objective and, depending on he or she finally finds, [the enterpriser] change direction to another discovery model”, he finishes.

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Traducció parcial de l’article Cambio de rumbo en tu negocio (http://www.emprendedores.es/gestion/cambio-rumbo-negocio).