Luyện nghe bài hát Shi - Ri - to - Ri

(konishi)
Translators: cunha
introduction:

"shiritori" is a japanese game. the first says a word, the second player must say a word beginning with the last character (syllable) of the first player's word, the third playe
T say a word beginning with the last character of the second player's word... and so on. the players are not supposed to say the same twice.

This track consists of two shiritori matches: the first one features maki-chan and the two from ugo-ugo lhuga. the second one features other characters from the programme.

Ugo-ugo lhuga was a for kids, now discontinued. it had a cutting edge quality to it that assured it became a legend among kids and adults who watched it. it often featured very surreal
Sketches. some of the crazyness of the programme was immortalised in this pizzicato album, this track, shiritori shimasho.

(editor's note: although theoretically for kids, the show's title is the phrase "go-go-u ga--ru" pronounced backwards, a "go go girl" slang for the kind of party-all-ni
Oung lady so often sung about in p5 songs. this was a hint the show was also aimed at the hip young party-goer returning home at the break of dawn, having just caught the first train out of
O. the animated title sequence, indeed, featured a godzilla-size party girl rampaging the streets, only to be felled by three young boy superheroes. other signs of the show's hipness: ba
Und posters featuring such bands as big car, and others.)

It was very difficult to translate this track because a lot of the humour and irony of the original just work in english. after I had finished the translation and re-read it, I realised
Ort of reminded me of the tea party with the mad hatter from alice in wonderland (and I certainly much of it's language as a model for the translation, unconsciously) -- all those people pla
This game in a completely subversive manner, going really crazy about it, but acting as if everything had strict rules which should be properly observed. the is absurd, but everybody is
Erious about what they are doing one they are not actually making any sense.

My favourite line is keigo? otona? hito? '

Hope you it
Maki: wa?

ugo-ugo desu

M: wa?

Lhuga: desu

M: ja

Shiritori
ka?

U: ii yo

L: ii yo

M: ja
kara...
Saru!

U:
(ruuretto)

L: to?

M: to?

U:

L:

M:

U:

L: mi?

M: zu? mmm...
Su ii no ne? (*)

U:

L:

M: ka. kamome.
yutta? (**)

U: yutta yo!
Boku ga yo

M: so ka? ka... kaki.

U:

L:

M: ko...
(muzukashii)

U:

L: e?

M:

U:

L: ki?

M:

U: ya... (***)

L:

M:

U: ku...

L:

M:

U:

L: ko?

M: ma?
(manmosu)

U: su? suzume!

L: yutta!

U: mm
yo ne!

L: yutta!

U: yo!

M: yo ne...

U: ah ja

L: su da yo su!

U: (sukanku)

L: ku?

M: ma...

U: mo...
Mori da yo

L: ri? ka yo
Ri ri...
yo ne

M: shitemo
Iin da yo

L: ri...

M: ga ri?
Ri... nai yo ne ri.

U: wa aru

M: honto? ja

U:

What's name?

It's

And

It's

Ok so

Shall we

Ok

Ok

Ok so start
Saru!
(monkey)

(roulette)

To?

To? (red pepper)

(deer)

(tortoise)

(spectacles)

(mouse)

Mi? (worm)

Zu? mmm...
It's ok if use su too, (*)
(watermelon)

(seagull)

(killifish)

Ka. kamome.
Oops! somebody said that?

I did!
I did!

so... kaki (persimmon)

(fox)

(cat)

Ko... (puppy)
(this is so difficult)

(colour book)

E? (chimney)

(moon)

(woodpecker)

Ki? (pheasant)

(automobile)

Ya... (spear)

(science)

(chemistry)

Ku... (chestnut)

(squirrel)

(sparrow)

Menko (a game)

(horse)

Ma?
(mammoth)

Su? suzume!

We already that!

We did not!
Did we?

We did too!

No we did not!

I we did...

Well then I

on! su!

(skunk)

Ku? (bear)

Ma... (duckweed)

Mo...
Mori! (forest)

Ri? no, not ri again!
Ri ri... we said
Risu

You can
If you don't

Ri... I

me? ri?
Ri... I think of anything

I one

ok I pass

(wild whale)

Yume no


no
no
Shiritori yo!
ga
ni
Iimasu
wa


Desu ne

Shuuru-kun,

Haaai!

Te: oyamada

To: keigo?

Te: desu.

To:

Te: desu.
So iu

Shiritori yo.
Dozo!

To: go ne?
Gogo no

S: desu ne.

Te: desu ne

To: ufufufu!

S: tea
(remon tii)

Te: nan
ka?
tea wa?

S: so ne.

Te: tea
no I no
ga hai!
no
nan desu.
no.
kawaii.

To: i?
Inu no
no

S: nu

Te:
ka?

To: mochiron!

S: nu?
no
Shiritori

Te: no

yo!

S: nu ne?
ne
Kore wa
na
ne
Fuinki ne

Te: (**)

S: ne

Te: no

ne

To: nan daro!

Te: ne e
no te
Otona no
Desu.
mo
Ko iu
Ierun yo

To: wa
te?


(***)

S: ta...
Tamaru

Te: ko iu ga
Ii no
tabeta

S: ru? ru ne? ru...

Ru ru ru ru ru...

Te: utatte wa

S: da ne
(ruubii)

Te:
O-kai ni
To iun
desu ka?

S: desu.

Te: bi to
De bi ne?
(biizu) no

(jaketo) mo


No i!

To: I na no?

Te: no shiritori
Desu

To: janai!
Inu no no

no shiritori!

And now the team
(*)

And
play
for grownups!
I say
The

And

And
In this

Ok!

keigo (cornelius)

Cornelius? that?
A

A grownup. precisely.

You like a person?

A yes.
is
the point.
We're trying to
shiritori here.

Ok so go.
Gogo no (twilight in the afternoon)

Oh so lovely!

lovely.

He he he.

Remon tii
(could I have some tea? )

I
You are fond of
Of tea

You say I am yes.

ends with an i
So
ga hai (ikuko-chan is...)
is an

Of mine.
She's cute.

I?
Inu no no koinu
(the puppy that to
The policeman a dog)

Nu

You mean
He has one?

He too.

Nu?
is supposed to be a shiritori
Strictly for right?

Yep.
is strictly
For grownups.

Ok so nu it is.
ne (it's so wet!)
This is
A remark.
I don't anything by that.
just... for the atmosphere.

I know. the atmosphere.

so wet!

is
A
for grownups.

I what he meant by wet!

Ne e kite
(hey you over here)
This is a
For grownups.
Me too
I can say
sort of thing.

I'm
Te?
Ten... don...
Tabeta
(did you fish and chips for lunch? )

Ta...
Tamaru misuzu (a name)

I wonder if utterance
Complies the rules of the game.
Fish and
For

Oh I'm so sorry! not ta! tis ru

Ru... (sings) ru ru ru ru...

is not allowed!

It now is it.
Well... ok... (ruby).

You
You bought
A lot of
Of

It's my stone.

Ruby ends
A bii.
Biizu no
mo
kamoshirenai!
(I what a jacket
With
do for me)

No! not I again!

I just said because
is a shiritori for grownups.

Well my goes almost without saying.
Inu no no otona no shiritori!
(the shiritori for grownups
Being by the policeman with a dog)