七転び八起き

毛むくじゃら 「けむくじゃら」 - hairy, fuzzy

慈母　「じぼ」 - affectionate mother

稽古　「けいこ」 - practice, trainning

師範　「しはん」 - teacher, instructor

指南　「しなん」 - instruction (in martial arts), coaching

鍛錬　「たんれん」 - toughening, training

幾星霜　「いくせいそう」 - many months and years

塵界　「じんかい」 - this drab world

物干し竿　「ものほしざお」 - pole on which to hang laundry for drying

くねくね - wiggling, swaying

物々しい　「ものものしい」 - impressive, imposing

蔓延る　「はびこる」 - to grow thick, to spread

呪縛　「じゅばく」 - binding spell

餌食　「えじき」 - prey, victim

奥義　「おうぎ」 - secret techinques (of a skill/art)

通力　「つうりき」 - mysterious power

給わる　「たまわる」 - (sonkeigo) to bestow, to give

流離　「さすらい」 - wandering (exile, lifestyle)

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四字熟語/yojijukugo :

問答無用　「もんどうむよう」 - there being no use in arguing (about it)

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春节快乐/除夕快乐/牛年快乐 Happy Chinese New Year | Happy Lunar New Year | 🧧 Happy 2021 Year of the Ox 🐂

Landscape of Four Seasons, He Baili, late 20th to 21st century

it’s okay to lose motivation sometimes. theres not too much you can do about that, learning a foreign language is hard and it takes time. sometimes, it takes so much time that you start to forget why you even starting learning it.

take a deep breath. write out a list of goals to accomplish for the week/month/day. light a few scented candles, find a place where you won’t get distracted. give yourself breaks.

it’ll be okay. again, learning a language is anything but a piece of cake. you’ll get there, take your time. it’s okay. go at your own pace, use the strategies that work best for you.

Oh no... I don't know any of these languages u_u

• The first sentence is in Japanese, I'm just starting to learn it, I can read parts written in hiragana:

*kanji* (subject) wa *kanji kanji* ga (object) fuwafuwa desu (= be) yone

• The second one is in Basque language (Euskara) - I think... because Euskararen looks similar. But I don't know what it means :((

• The third sentence is in Chinese... probably Mandarin, because you're learning it ;) but again, I don't understand any of it :(((

猫は尻尾がふわふわですよね  

Cat’s have fluffy tails, don’t they? 

Where the 猫「ねこ」is cat and 尻尾「しっぽ」means tail. 

よね is often used in a sense of ‘isn’t it’ or ‘right’ there isn’t really a direct English translation. 

Euskararen jatorria ezezaguna da 

The origin of the Basque language is unknown. 

I stole this sentence off of the Basque wiki about the Basque language. My knowledge of Basque is very very basic, but I do want to look into more when I’m more confident in my other target languages.

我要吃全家福 wǒ yào chī quánjiāfú

I want to eat family portrait. 

I specifically chose this sentence as it sounds really bizarre if you directly translate it. 

全家福 Quánjiāfú literally means family portrait, if you type 全家福 into google images, you’ll be greeted with a multitude of photos of Chinese families. 

However, 全家福 is also the name of a type of Chinese stew. Plus a lot of authentic Chinese food has creative names which do little do describe the dish. Such as 麻婆豆腐 mápó dòufǔ (Mapo Tofu) which can be translated as Pockmark grandma’s beancurd, which a is spicy tofu dish made with beef or pork in a thick sauce with Szechuan peppercorns. It’s difficult to guess what it is from the title, but the name apparently came from an older lady with pockmarks (to jest taka blizna na twarzy taka jak czasami się ma po ospie) who invented the dish and sold it in her restaurant in Chengdu (Szechuan’s capital).