You have been very helpful and informative

勉強になりました

ありがとうございました

レネー

カモがネギしょってやってくる
A bit nasty with the kanji:
鴨が葱背負ってやってくる

And it refers to a gullible person whom you can take advantage of. The duck comes along with a leek, completely unaware that he’ll also be going into the pot…

Anyway, I find this kind of stuff interesting. I’m using my chosen Japanese name because marky encouraged me, but don’t be fooled as there’s still a lot I have to learn. 後で日本語のポストを書いてみようと思っています。

i loved the podcast!

May i ask, what is the saying about the duck?…the duck will come to you and just put it into a pot? I could not catch it, please let me know the phrase..

thank you!!

my japanese isnt that good..but i hope to improve it by this way!!!

since im good at chinese i only know the kanji and now the hiragana and katakana…so just use..as much kanji as possible!! LOL

I would like to see a koreanpod!!!..i really love korea, japan and china.

cheers,

tianhao

Hiya! 本 can mean “origin”, as well, so you could look at 日本 as the origin of the sun (since it rises in the east). Good observations! Kanji is a lot of fun

金（jin) means ‘gold’ in Chinese and ‘现金’ means cash.

必要 is just the same (neccesary).

I have a good grasp of Chinese, and it’s weird sometimes seeing a familiar character in the midst of all those spidery hiragana.

Weirder still was going to Japan, seeing all the proper nouns. Surnames were most peculiar to me.　Names like ‘mouth of river’, ‘mountain of books’ and ‘middle of the field’.

Also, signs saying ‘very exit’ in all the emergency exits!

Another interesting one: 日本, the name of Japan. It means ’sun’ and ‘before’ in Chinese. Is this why they call Japan the land of the rising sun?

(If you can’t see the Kanji, or HanZi as we say in China, it’s because I’ve encoded it all in Chinese)

My pleasure, I’m glad I could help!

Ayu-san,

Are you asking for links to a specific place, or just on those subjects in general?

I did hear about the adding up of the 4 and 9 to 13! I thought that was a really clever observation! I’m glad that the community is expanding because more and more people will give input about things like that! I absolutely LOVE it!!!!!

Thanks for the explanation about numbers. I think I understand now!