at Biblioteca de Arte-Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian

(harmonica music)
Mark: Ok well here I am. I am just walking in to the…I am just walkin’ in to the Brooklyn Cafe down in Brooklyn, Mosquito City and someone is playing the harmonica in the corner here. This is like… a nice place. I am going to sit down in the corner.…and I am going to wait for my friend, Frank. OK. … Here is a table. … And here are two chairs.

at Keene Public Library

Mark: OK. well. I am sitting in Frank’s car and we are just driving under the overpass and we have just left Mosquito City and we are in Brooklyn now and there is the fire station on my right. We are turning left. Is that public housing?
Frank: Oh no. No. I am going to stop here. You just…I will let you off and you get a table in the cafe and I will see you later.
Mark: OK. OK. I will see you in a minute.
Frank: See you in a bit.
Mark: OK.

at Library of Congress

Mark: Well here I am at work now at the Mosquito Herald and here is my boss, Frank. Hello Frank.
Frank: Mark! Come on in.
Mark: How are you today?
Frank: I feel great.
Mark: Good. Good.
Frank: Fantastic. How about yourself?
Mark: I feel pretty good but I have got a problem. I need a place to stay. I have to move out of the hotel and I need my own place. I am thinking of getting a place down in Brooklyn . That is nice part of town. Do you know a real estate agent or do you know of any apartments that are free?
Frank: Well I actually know of some apartments because I have got some artist friends.
Mark: Right. Ok
Frank: …and musician friends.
Mark: Can you introduce me to your friends and…?
Frank: Yes. Certainly.
Mark: Ok. That would be great . Ok. Thanks mate. Well. After work today?
Frank: After work.
Mark: Ok.
Frank: See you later.
Mark: Lets go down after work. Ok?
Frank: No problem.
Mark: Thanks. See you.
Frank: Bye.

at MorBCN

Mark: Hello there Brad. How are you?
Brad: Just a moment there.
Mark: What are you eating there?
Brad: I am eating this delicious apple.
Mark: Wow!
Brad: Sorry about this.
Mark: That is all right.
Brad: It is a very special apple. It is a …Mosquito Bay apple… Mosquito City apple.
Mark: Right. Ok. How are you today?
Brad: I feel great. How about yourself?
Mark: I feel ok. I had a strange dream last night. I dreamed that Frank… that my boss Frank was my friend Peter…
Brad: That is right. I know who you are talking about.
Mark: And Peter was Frank and Peter’s sister, Stephanie was Peter..was Frank. It was kind of strange.
Brad: What do you mean? What are you talking about? A dream or reality?
Mark: Yeah I had a dream where everybody was everybody else.
Brad: Well that happens to me all the time. I have so many absolutely strange dreams. But the thing is with the strange dreams…how do you feel? How does it make you feel?
Mark: After your dream?
Brad: Yeah. After your dream.
Mark: Right ok.
Brad: How does it make you feel?
Mark: That is the important thing?
Brad: Well for me it is.
Mark: Right Ok.
Brad: And for you if you stay in Mosquito Bay, it will become.
Mark: Calm?
Brad: Become.
Mark: It’ll become?
Brad: It’ll become. Yeah.
Mark: Become? Become calm? Become calm.
Brad: Oh definitely. Calm.
Mark: I want to be calm.
Brad: You will be calm.
Mark: Oh my god! I have got to get to work. It is Monday morning. See you later, Brad.
Brad: Have a nice day.
Mark: You too mate.
Brad: (?)

Use this post to learn English and Tagalog at the same time.

How are you?

Good.

Very good.

How are you?

Very very good.

Thank you.

Where are you going?

I am going to the market.

Where are you going?

I am going home.

Bye bye.

at MorBCN

Mark: Ok. Well. I have been here for a couple of weeks now. In Mosquito City. And I have got a job and I have made friends with the richest man in town: Peter Bestluck, and I have met his sister and I am making a lot of friends and I am having a great time. This is a really great place. But something is kind of weird…. like…. I just went to work today and I was talking to my boss, Frank, about finding a place to live down in Brooklyn and he started to talk to me and suddenly he shimmered and changed shape and he turned into Peter and he turned back into Frank and he turned into Peter again. Is it you Peter, or is it Frank? What is going on here? Are you Frank or Peter?
Frank: Nh…
Mark: Are you ok? Are you ok?
Frank: Well ahm..
Mark: Are you ok?

(the sound of slapping)

Mark: I am just slapping him here. I am trying to get him to like…wake up.…Are you ok?

(the sound of slapping)

Frank: Well. ham …ah well ahm… ah… Hey Mark! How are you doing?
Mark: I am doing…
Frank: What is the problem?
Mark: No problem. No problem.
Frank: Take a seat. You know? Relax. I will tell you one thing because I am aware of what may be happening. I am aware you are having strange…there is a strange contradiction, isn’t there?
Mark: Something is funny here. Peter? Is it Peter or Frank?
Frank: Well. This is a very strange place. Quite a few, what I would say are magical things, happen here.
Mark: You mean… some people are other people?
Frank: No, it may seem like that but it is not quite…
Mark: Who am I talking to? Are you Peter or Frank?
Stephanie: No, I am Stephanie.
Mark: Stephanie! Stephanie! it is you! Stephanie!
Stephanie: You have just woken up from a very strange dream. If you get out of bed and walk around you might feel better.
Mark: Ok. It is ME! I am the one who is dreaming. That is what it is. I am the one who is dreaming.
Stephanie: If you just take a walk out and see the beautiful sea…
Mark: Now. Ok. Stephanie. Oh Stephanie!

(the sound of an alarm)

Mark: It is you! It is all a dream but I wish it was real. Oh it is Monday morning. I have to go to work!

Use this post to learn English and Arabic at the same time.

Where are you going?

(Arabic)

I am going to the market.

Where are you going?

I am going home.

Where is he going?

He is going to the airport.

What are you doing?

I am not doing anything.

Do you want to eat?

Yes I do.

I am hungry.

Are you hungry?

Yes, I am.

Do you want to eat with us?

Yes, thank you.

Let’s go.

Where do you want to eat?

I don’t know.

Where do you want to eat?

Let’s eat over there.

That is a good restaurant.

That is a good restaurant.

Is it expensive?

No it s not expensive

It’s very cheap.

Let’s go.

at The Library of Congress

Mark: Ok. Well here I am. I am standing on the balcony of Sphinx Castle. Peter Bestluck’s castle and…Peter…
Peter: Mark, what do you think of the view? Isn’t it absolutely extraordinary?
Mark: It’s lovely. I can see Brooklyn over there.
Peter: Panoramic view.
Mark: Yes. Mt Sphinx behind us.
Peter: That’s right and you can see the kind of tropical rain forest over there to your left.
Mark: Yeah, and behind us the Mosquito City Trade Towers.
Peter: That’s right.
Mark: Yeah. Where your office is.
Peter: Anyway let me just interrupt for a minute. I’ve got somebody…you may have noticed another person on the balcony.
Mark: Oh and who is this?
Peter: I think I told you about her?
Mark: Your sister?
Peter: My sister.
Mark: Please introduce me.
Peter: Come over here. This is Stephanie.
Mark: Hello Stephanie. My name is Mark.
Stephanie: Hello how are you?
Mark: Nice to meet you.
Stephanie: Are you having a good time?
Mark: I am having a great time.
Stephanie: Oh that is so wonderful. Well what can I say? It is so wonderful to have you here. My brother has been telling me so much about you.
Mark: Really?
Stephanie: Are you having a good time?
Mark: I am really having a good time.
Stephanie: What are you doing?
Mark: Well, I have got this great new job and I have made friends with Peter and he has shown me all these wonderful places and I have met all these friendly people and there is fresh food and the air is so fresh and Peter tells me there is no pollution here and I went to the university and I interviewed a doctor there and… building the hydrogen engine … This is a fantastic country. I wish all countries were like this.
Stephanie: I can see you are going to have a good time. You have only been here for a very short time, haven’t you?
Mark: Yes. Yes.
Stephanie: How long is it?
Mark: It is only a week now.
Stephanie: Only a week?
Mark: Only a week. But I think I am going to stay here forever.
Stephanie: Oh really?
Mark: Yeah.
Stephanie: Oh. That is fantastic because I would love to take you around…
Mark: Oh that would be great.
Stephanie: …the island.
Mark: That would be great. What do you do anyway? Do you? Do you have a regular job?
Stephanie: I do want I want.
Mark: Or are you a student or…?
Stephanie: I am student…all my life.
Mark: Right.
Stephanie: A student of life.
Mark: I suppose you are from a wealthy family. You don’t really have to work. So you just spend your time studying.
Stephanie: Well we do many things but it is all because we want to do them.
Mark: Right. Right. I came from a poor family and I had to work hard to make a living but since I came to Mosquito City, life is so easy.
Stephanie: You must be very strong to have that sort of history.
Mark: Well I mean … I say “poor family” My family wasn’t that poor . Like I…You know…I…There is a lot of poverty in the world. I wasn’t really poor like in some places.
Stephanie: You look very very healthy.
Mark: Thank you. You look fairly healthy yourself.
Stephanie: And also you look very very strong.
Mark: You are making me blush.
Stephanie: Oh! I am so sorry. Would you like a glass of wine?

Use this post to compare three romance languages:

What are you doing?

French
Spanish
Italian

I am reading a book.

French
Spanish
Italian

Which book?

(French)
(Spanish)
(Italian)

It’s a book about history.

(French)
(Spanish)
(Italian)

What kind of history?

(French)
(Spanish)
(Italian)

The history of Europe

(French)
(Spanish)
(Italian)

at M J M

I think grammar is beautiful.
I think grammar is beautiful.
I think it’s beautiful.
Grammar is music.

Music.
Words are music.
Music.
Everything has music.

I was watching television.
I saw a programme
I saw a programme about a Finnish guy.
I saw a programme about a Finnish guy.
I saw a programme about a Finnish guy who was a musician.
a musician
I saw a programme about a Finnish guy who was a musician.
He was a musician.
He was a musician.
a musician.
He was a musician.

He was a musician and a composer.

I saw a TV programme about a Finnish guy who was musician and a composer.

I saw a TV programme about a Finnish guy who was a musician and a composer and he traveled around.

He travelled around.

I saw a TV programme about a Finnish guy who was a musician and a composer and he traveled around.

I saw a programme about a guy; a Finnish guy, who was a musician and composer and he traveled around and recorded sounds.

He traveled around and recorded sounds.

I was watching TV and I saw a TV programme about a Finnish guy who was a musician and a composer and he traveled around and he recorded sounds in factories on farms.

What were you saying?
As I was saying…
As I was saying….

What were you saying?
As I was saying…

What were you saying?
What were you saying?
What was he saying?
What was she saying?
What was he saying?

As I was saying…

I was watching TV and I was watching a programme about a Finnish guy and he was a musician and a composer and he traveled around and he recorded music in factories and workplaces and he mixed it on a computer and he combined it in new ways and he played the piano accordion and he mixed his live piano accordion music with computerised recordings of the factories and workplaces; the sewing machines, the presses, the wells, the pumps, the crushers, the kneaders, the boilers, the mills, all the machines, all the sounds of the workplace.

He played in rhythm with different mixtures of these sounds on the back of a truck in the desert.

Music is everywhere.
Music is everywhere.
Music is sound.
Music is song.
Music is language.
Music is language.

It’s language
That’s what it is.
It’s language
Music is language.

When you speak, think that you are singing!
Think that you are singing, because you are.

You are singing every time you open your mouth.

every time you open your mouth

You are singing.
You are singing.
Every time you open your mouth, you are singing.
Every time you open your mouth, you are singing.

on the train
in the street

You are singing.
Every time you open your mouth, you are singing.

in the street and on the train
every time
every time
every time
in the street
on the train
every time
int he street
on the train
on the bus
in the supermarket
at home
every time

Sound is song.
Sound is music.
music
muse
muse
museum

Now I am going to tell you the story of the nine muses.

Long ago in ancient Greece there were nine sisters.

The Gods of Mt Olympus put them in charge of nine faculties.

One was in charge of epic poetry.
One was in charge of lyric poetry.
One was in charge of drama.
One was in charge of history.
One was in charge of dance.

one was in charge of …
one was in charge of …
one was in charge of …
one was in charge of …
one was in charge of …
one was in charge of…

each
each of them
each of them
They were each in charge of different faculties.

in charge of
in charge of

The nine muses are in charge of nine different human faculties, according to the ancient Greeks.

It is from them that we have the word “music”.

Use the internet to find out the names of the nine muses. Write and tell us about the nine muses. Do not copy. Read and take notes and then write your own original text about the nine muses.