23.10.2020
Apologies for this very text heavy infographic-thingy, I am still trying to get the hang of making better graphics ^^ There was a lot of information I wanted to include in this one and it ended up this way! I did not at all expect my first post to get as much love as it did but I’m glad it was helpful :)
Read under the cut for some additional resources!
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好好活、多多爱、常常笑。
Live well, love much, laugh often.
我一个人时很少觉得孤独;却经常在人群和团体中感到孤独。
I’m rarely bored alone; I am often bored in groups and crowds.
如果我们不做,谁做?如果不是现在,更待何时? If not us, who? If not now, when?
DISCLAIMER: This is in traditional Chinese!
可 attached to a verb more or less lets you turn it into an adjective of the able to (verb) kind. That was a terrible explanation here have a vocab list
可愛 kě'ài lovable, cute (where kawaii comes from)
可憐 kělián pitiable
可靠 kěkào reliable (kào is to depend on)
可惜 kěxí unfortunately, regrettably
可疑 kěyí suspicious
可笑 kěxiào laughable, ridiculous
可氣 kěqì frustrating, exasperating
可怕 kěpà terrifying
There are more (because there are always more) but now you get how great a name/transliteration 可樂 kělè is for “coke,” it looks like happy-able! Coca-cola is specifically 可口可樂, so like “can drink, can happy” but really “good to drink, makes you happy.” (supposedly shop keepers at one point transliterated as 蝌蝌啃蠟 kē kē kěn là, “bite the wax tadpole,” but that was never official. Reasons to pay your translator well.)
Heart: let’s learn all the languages!
Brain: it would take years!
Heart: let’s learn all the languages!
每一個故事都會結束,但是生活中,每一個故事的結束同時也是一個全新的開始。
Every story has an end, but in life, every ending is a new beginning.
人们需要知道他们的行为会影响其他人。所以谨言慎行,不只是为了你自己。
People need to learn that their actions do affect other people. So be careful what you say and do, its not always just about you.
教育者,非为已往,非为现在,而专为将来。 Education is not for the past, not for present, but particularly for the future.