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Confucius says reading on will help your Japanese
By - 02-23-2010 04:11 PM
Originally Posted at: The Japan Times Online
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I remember the first kanji I ever wrote. In fact, I still have them — a Chinese aphorism roughly equivalent to "seeing is believing." In 1964, I awkwardly copied them out of a book on linguistics from my high school library in North Carolina. I was about to turn 17 and could not possibly have imagined that within 12 months I would be living in Okinawa.
While recently rummaging through a box left in storage several decades ago, I found myself peering into an old notebook, and there were the kanji — ?????? — I had transcribed 40 years earlier. The Chinese saying is familiar to virtually all Japanese as ??????????? ("Hyakubun wa ikken ni shikazu") — literally, "One hundred hearings are not equal to seeing once."
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The Japan Times Online
By - 02-23-2010 04:11 PM
Originally Posted at: The Japan Times Online
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I remember the first kanji I ever wrote. In fact, I still have them — a Chinese aphorism roughly equivalent to "seeing is believing." In 1964, I awkwardly copied them out of a book on linguistics from my high school library in North Carolina. I was about to turn 17 and could not possibly have imagined that within 12 months I would be living in Okinawa.
While recently rummaging through a box left in storage several decades ago, I found myself peering into an old notebook, and there were the kanji — ?????? — I had transcribed 40 years earlier. The Chinese saying is familiar to virtually all Japanese as ??????????? ("Hyakubun wa ikken ni shikazu") — literally, "One hundred hearings are not equal to seeing once."
Read More...
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The Japan Times Online
