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Bite-Size Burmese: Don't Show Up Without a Musical Prelude
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Theatrical performances, dance drama, and shows are such an integral part of Burmese culture that quite a number of everyday expressions can be traced back to them. In this episode, I'll introduce you to two such sayings:
ဆိုင်းမဆင့် ဗုံမဆင့် (to show up without a musical prelude)
မီးစင်ကြည့်ကတယ် (to dance wherever the spotlight falls)
The first one has to do with the theatrical practice of synchronizing the entrance of certain characters with the appropriate musical cues. For instance, to announce the ogre's appearance with a fittingly menacing music; to announce the prince's entrance with a princely song; and so on. As an expression, "to show up without a musical prelude" means "to show up unannounced."
There may also be times when you are required to play by ears, as you might say in English. The Burmese equivalent of that is, "to dance according to the spotlight." Listen to the mini-lesson for further explanations and usage examples. (Intro and end music: "When my ukulele plays" by Sounddroll, Upbeat.io)
Vocabulary
တူရိယာပစ္စည်း musical instruments
ဇာတ်ကောင် character
ညှိထားတယ် to synchronize, to negotiate beforehand
ဘီလူး demon, ogre
ဘီလူးဆိုင်း the musical cue for the ogre
မီးစင် spotlight
သင့်တော်သလိုလုပ် to act as one sees fit
Have a question about a Burmese word or phrase you heard here? Send us a message.
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Manage episode 330216668 series 3319499
Theatrical performances, dance drama, and shows are such an integral part of Burmese culture that quite a number of everyday expressions can be traced back to them. In this episode, I'll introduce you to two such sayings:
ဆိုင်းမဆင့် ဗုံမဆင့် (to show up without a musical prelude)
မီးစင်ကြည့်ကတယ် (to dance wherever the spotlight falls)
The first one has to do with the theatrical practice of synchronizing the entrance of certain characters with the appropriate musical cues. For instance, to announce the ogre's appearance with a fittingly menacing music; to announce the prince's entrance with a princely song; and so on. As an expression, "to show up without a musical prelude" means "to show up unannounced."
There may also be times when you are required to play by ears, as you might say in English. The Burmese equivalent of that is, "to dance according to the spotlight." Listen to the mini-lesson for further explanations and usage examples. (Intro and end music: "When my ukulele plays" by Sounddroll, Upbeat.io)
Vocabulary
တူရိယာပစ္စည်း musical instruments
ဇာတ်ကောင် character
ညှိထားတယ် to synchronize, to negotiate beforehand
ဘီလူး demon, ogre
ဘီလူးဆိုင်း the musical cue for the ogre
မီးစင် spotlight
သင့်တော်သလိုလုပ် to act as one sees fit
Have a question about a Burmese word or phrase you heard here? Send us a message.
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