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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
