« Bene qui latuit bene vixit » -Ovid📚 🇯🇵 隠れて生きた者は、幸せに生きた。 フランス語の格言 「Pour vivre heureux vivons cachés」 に似ていますね! ひっそり暮らすのが幸せかも? 🇫🇷 Celui qui s’est bien caché a bien vécu. Ça ressemble un peu à l’expression française « pour vivre heureux vivons cachés »🙏🏻 🇺🇸 Who hid well, lived well.
🇺🇸 Who doesn’t like onigiri ? If you want to make your own with a crazy cute look, check this Youtube channel 「おにぎり劇場」 (onigiri gekijou = Onigiri theatre). From kappa (Japanese folkloric monster) to Japanese daimyo Oda Nobunaga, you can find an array of delicious fictional character themed food inspiration as well as ones based […]
🇺🇸 Excited to see that this hip and talented Japanese artist Yamase Mayumi just designed these beautiful sneakers for Nike. Yamase is a Tokyo-based painter who has collaborated with many fashion brands including Comme des Garçons, and she regularly shows her art in galleries. In addition to being a visual artist, she also writes for […]
« Avoir la pêche » 🍑 🇺🇸 This French expression (literally “to have the peach”) means “to be full of energy”. It’s interesting, in a famous Japanese old tale, there is character full of energy called “桃太郎” (momotarou), which also contains the word “peach.” It seems like that this fruit has been associated to energy in other […]
« Nec tecum possum vivere nec sine te » – Martial 🇯🇵 君と生きられないし、君なしとも生きられない。 古代ローマの詩人、マルティアリスの切ない詩💔 🇫🇷 Je ne peux vivre ni avec toi, ni sans toi. Ah, l’amour, toujours l’amour !💔 🇺🇸 I can neither live with you nor without you.
🔹If you are interested in getting my latest linguistic gems, please consider becoming a premium subscriber here: https://www.patreon.com/join/yukikeiser Since the pandemic hit last year, many new words have appeared in French — as well as in all languages. One of the difficulties for a new word in French is how to pick its gender. Whether to […]
« Il mourut pendant un orage,— une tempête de neige,— dans un éclat de tonnerre. Une main étrangère lui ferma les yeux. » Romain Rolland Vie de Beethoven (1903)📚 🇺🇸 Beautiful text by Romain Rolland about Beethoven’s death🙏🏻 🇫🇷 Texte sobre et délicat de Romain Rolland, racontant le dernier souffle de Beethoven🖤 🇯🇵 ベートーベンの最期を、彼のドラマティックな音楽を彷彿させる言葉で語るロマン・ローランのシンプルで心に染みる文🖤
« Cupiditatem pecuniae gloriaeque fugite » – Cicero 🇯🇵 金銭欲と名誉欲を避けろ ついつい欲しくなったりする時もあるけれど、欲に翻弄されてはいけませんね🙏🏻 🇫🇷 Fuyez le désir pour l’argent et la gloire 🇺🇸 Flee from the desire of money and glory
🇺🇸 It’s always interesting to see how overseas media outlets cover US news. It often shows us new perspectives about our own country, broadening our vision. Lately, the American news covered his recent measures and actions, but how do French people perceive them? Today, I’m sharing “C dans l’air” (= It’s in the air), one of my favorite […]
🔹If you are interested in getting my latest linguistic gems, please consider becoming a premium subscriber here: https://www.patreon.com/join/yukikeiser 🇺🇸 Today, I’d like to share a Japanese poetic word, that has some wisdom too. 言霊 (kotodama) This word is formed with the kanji 言 which means “say, speech” and 霊 which means “spirit, soul“. It literally […]