Saying of the day

恶有恶报，善有善报

e4 you3 e4 bao4, shan4 you3 shan4 bao4

Evil begets evil (has retribution), good begets good.

Good Morning

Today learned to say good morning to all in a room:

大家早上好

da4 jia1 = everyone
zao3 shang5 hao3 = good morning

I have been studying a lot of weiqi with my broken leg. Haven't done as much Chinese, because I often do that in the car, and not driving much yet. I guess I should translate more Pooh though, stay posted for more episodes of him :)

Broke My Leg...

I broke my leg... I haven't been posting or studying Chinese much. I spent a lot of time feeling sorry for myself :)

But today, felt like making at least a small post, trying to say in Chinese: I broke my leg.

- I is easy: 我
- broke, no idea, will have to look up. Hmmm, not very promising, so many entries for break. Wonder what would be good. Guess I'll go with " 拗 ao4 bend / break in two"
- my : 我的
- leg: 腿 tui3 leg , or 胫 jing4 lower part of leg. I think i'll go with the first one.

My result:
我坳我的腿

Please leave comments if I totally screwed up. 谢谢

More weiqi terms

小目= xiao3 mu4 = little point = komoku
小飞 = xiao3 fei3 = little fly = little flying move = keima = knight's move

目= eye, but has many different meanings, here it meant point

以后？

“以后， 以后是什么时候”， 小豆问道

Later? Who will come later? Little Peas asked.

Proverb of the day

My friend S reminded me of this Chinese proverb:

Before enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water
After enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water

Babelfish gets me
在启示, 砍木和运载的水之前
在启示以后, 砍木和运载的水



I like the proverb. S helpfully told me I should try to find the original one and translate it into English. Maybe some day ^^

等以后吧，亲爱的

“ 等以后吧，亲爱的。” 妈妈说。

'See you later, dear', mama says.

Hmmmm, that's a new one to learn, the only one I knew so far is 再见 (tia jian = bye)

Now I'll have to learn 等以后吧 (deng yi hou ba) and figure out when it is used.

But first, time for my aikido and my morning walk, life has been kind of crazy here, so haven't done any of those yet. Sylvia ran off with my Pooh book, so I have a good excuse to translate only one sentence right now ^^