#to live vocab

[nihongoseito]

vocab pt. 2 from 君たちはどう生きるか（漫画）

nouns:

世間（せけん） = society, the public, the world

打ち（うち）どころ = spot where one was hit

行儀（ぎょうぎ） = manners, behavior

修身（しゅうしん） = morals, ethics

克己心（こっきしん） = spirit of self-denial

人格者（じんかくしゃ） = person of character

話半分（はなしはんぶん） = taking a story with a grain of salt (discounting half the story)

嫌がらせ（いやがらせ） = harassment, pestering

住処（すみか） = house, residence, dwelling

verbs:

とどまる = to remain, stay (in one place); to be limited to

刺さる（ささる） = to stick into, pierce; to resonate emotionally

湧き出る（わきでる） = to gush forth

貫く（つらぬく） = to go through, pierce; to run through; to stick to, persist with

努める（つとめる） = to make an effort, endeavor (to do)

ひるむ = to falter, flinch/recoil (from)

かっこうつける = to show off, try and look good

すねる = to sulk, pout

adjectives:

肝心（かんじん）な = essential, crucial, important

投げやり（なげやり）な = negligent, careless, irresponsible

勤勉（きんべん）な = hardworking, diligent

円満（えんまん）な = harmonious, amicable, peaceful

寛大（かんだい）な = tolerant, generous, lenient

図々しい（ずうずうしい） = impudent, shameless, cheeky

adverbs/onomatopoeiae:

しみじみ = keenly, deeply, earnestly; calmly; intently

くれぐれも = sincerely; repeatedly

即（そく） = instantly, immediately

expressions:

お留守（るす）になる = to fail to be attentive to

ごめんください = may i come in?

[arylleth]

There’s a word in Korean: 인연 [in yun] ⁠— it means “providence” or “fate”. If two strangers walk by each other in the street, and their clothes accidentally brush, that means there have been eight thousand layers of 인연 between them

[svtskneecaps]

you know what i'll say it MIKE AND ROIER ARE THE ONLY ONES I RESPECT these fuckers will rock up and say FUCK english all my homies HATE english they are the only ones i trust and respect these fuckers are like you will hear me speak my language and you will LEARN IT OR DIE and i respect the HELL OUT OF IT dude THANK YOU FOR BEING ENGLISH HATERS brothers THANK YOU FOR NOT SPEAKING ONLY ENGLISH WHEN AMONG ANYONE NOT OF YOUR LANGUAGE GROUP!!!!!!!!

[daily-spanish-word]

to live vivir

Remember:

vivacious, vivid : lively

vivacity : liveliness

I can’t live without TV. No puedo vivir sin tele.

In the picture: “¡Apaga la tele, vive tu vida!” : “Turn off the TV, live your life!”, a piece of street art in Valparaíso, Chile, that’s becoming world famous.

Picture by 1.61803399 on Flickr

[mcnuggyy]

animnapu't siyam 😏

[coquelicoq]

my grandmother knows how much i love the moon and she's started clipping articles out of the paper whenever they're space-related and mailing them to me and i've taken to calling her whenever there's an interesting celestial body visible to the naked eye in the night sky. it's a cute lil way that we bond and has had the happy side effect that now in addition to all the other reasons i love to see the moon, i now also love it because it's something i get to share with her. this is all important context that my friends didn't have last week when we turned a corner and my reaction to seeing the full moon hanging huge and bright and beautiful right in front of us was to shout "i need to call my grandmother!!" now, i'm not sure what conclusions i would have jumped to were i in their position, but i feel like "my friend's grandmother must be a werewolf" would have been low on the list of possibilities. that's just me though.

[fruityumbrella]

northamericans do you say 'jacked' to mean built/ripped/muscled?

[sparklingchim]

i think i just fell in love w a boy here in barcelona 🫢

[mwagneto]

ICH WUSSTE NICHT DASS DU DEUTSCH SPRICHST OMG ich bin ein dreckiger bilingualer der nur deutsch und Englisch spricht und ich finde es sooooo beeindrucken wenn Leute irgendeine Sprache außer Englisch als Fremdsprache sprechen können wow. Dein Deutsch ist btw voll gut, also hätte ich nicht gewusst dass es nicht deine Muttersprache ist, hätte ich es definitiv angenommen nur basierend auf dem einen Post

jaa ich kann deutsch sprechen (theoretisch) aber ich mache es nicht oft, weil ich nicht gut darin bin😭😭😭 hauptsächlich irl... online kann ich google translate verwenden wenn ich etwas nicht weiß lmaoo aber vielen dank!! meine grammatik ist okay-ish, mein wortschatz ist SCHEIẞE omfg. englisch zu lernen hat meine deutschkenntnisse völlig zerstört 😭 und es ist so schlecht, dass jeder englisch mit mir sprichtttt ALTERRRRRRR ICH SPRECHE DEUTSCH KOMM SCHON

[winterrose42]

Finding out youre agorophobic is wack bc its like, if you dont know then for me at least you just go out anyway and dissociate the whole time feel like absolute garbage and take days to recover from a small trip to groceries and finding every excuse possible to drop plans with people until they eventually stopped asking and stopped talking altogether. And now its like, oh. Is this why going outside feels like dying. Huh. And i wanna go out and do things but the thought makes me vomit for a week leading up to it and i was told oh its just being dramatic so yeah cool whatever.

Now im like, okay i actually have to get to used to going out and being around people adn put things in place for the paranoia and anxiety and plan things in advance and i gotta tell myself about it and walk myself through it everyday leading up. And im an adult so fuck everyone i will in fact be taking my headphones and a fidget and wearing my rat jacket as a security blanket in 90 degree weather thank you. I am in fact, allowed to accommodate myself and set boundaries fuck you actually.

[ddaome-kr]

Korean Holidays in Spring 🌼

Note (Another note from me, the team member responsible for posting our stuff on tumblr): So, it's basically summer in Korea these days (very hot and sunny!) and this may seem out of the blue... We planned this post when it was spring, but real life (a.k.a college assignments) delayed our schedule a bit. We still hope you enjoy our post about holidays in Spring. Here's the link to our instagram post as usual(part 1, part 2).

Just less than a century ago, almost every individual in Korea were farmers. Even in the 1960s, more than half of the total population grew crops for living. If we count from the days of Dangun (단군, the mythical founder of Korea), for more than 4000 years, the people of Korea were largely committed to farming.

In a society where farming is central to the community, the weather and the seasons hold great importance. Really, because if there is a storm or an extreme raining season, that would mean that the crops will be ruined that year, leading to a year of celebration. Thus spring, which marks the beginning of the year and also the beginning of the planting season, was full of traditional celebrations which wished for a good year and the blessing of the ancestors. This post will further investigate the traditional spring holidays of Korea and its unique customs which were set to celebrate such comings of life. 

Seolnal [설날], also known as the Lunar New Year and Chinese new year, marks the beginning of the new year and celebrates the rise of the first moon. Now when the first moon rises, it appears as a very small crescent figure. After 15 days, it becomes the full moon. On this first full moon of the year, the jong-wol-dae-borum[정월대보름](hereon referred to as jeong-wol)holiday is celebrated. In the very early morning of the jeong-wol, families celebrate the day by eating bu-rom[부럼], which is a set of hard nuts such as peanuts, walnuts and chestnuts. By putting the hard nut in your mouth and purposefully breaking it with your teeth, you wish for good luck. More specifically, you wish for no bad luck this year.

This bu-rom breaking tradition stems from a homophonic term with bu-rom: bu-se-rom[부스럼]. Bu-se-rom refers to little pimples, thus by breaking the bu-roms, referring to bad luck in general, the people wished to have a healthy body in the new years which is essential for harvest. Traditionally, people would eat jabgok- bab[잡곡밥], which is rice cooked with nuts, with the na-mul[나물](seasoned spring herbs)s together. 

(A picture from our family dinner in the new years week, which features the additional servings of jabgokbab, namul, and other traditional dishes)

During the middays, people went around each family’s houses and farms, each carrying traditional celebrations. Ji-bul- nori[쥐불놀이] was a ceremony of intentionally setting fire to the farmland. Attaching a small paper or a can to a long rope, the players of jibulnori would hold the end of the rope and spin it, while lighting up the small paper or can attached. After spinning the rope a few times, the player would throw the fire inside the land. The fire was thrown in not only to wish for good farming but also to eliminate the bugs and the weeds that have grown over the winter. The community came together and later played yut-no-ri[윷놀이] and many other activities. 

After spending the day together families would gather and watch the first full moon rise together. People usually granted wishes, and they also predicted the outcome of the farming through the shape of the moon as well. 

Due to the development and industrialization of Korea in the last few decades, however, many of the traditional celebrations have been reduced in its size and significance. Nevertheless, the core traditions remain and many rural parts of Korea still celebrate such traditions. 

Thanks for staying with us and we hope you have enjoyed your five minute reading with us. 

[matineemonsters]

I know my period's about to start when I get really mad at my mom for stupid reasons out of the blue

but like, who else was out there forcing a 7th grader to read the fucking Epic of Gilgamesh

[daily-spanish-word]

to live vivir

Remember:

vivacious, vivid : lively

vivacity : liveliness

I can’t live without TV. No puedo vivir sin tele.

In the picture: “¡Apaga la tele, vive tu vida!” : “Turn off the TV, live your life!”, a piece of street art in Valparaíso, Chile, that’s becoming world famous.

Picture by 1.61803399 on Flickr

[minglana]

an american saying that apparently everyone outside of the US (read: western europe) is allowed to have an accent except americans, when i have in fact heard the "worst" spanish come out of americans mouths and no one has complained, just adapted to their accents

[yohankang]

i've been so consistent with japanese for the past 2 months and i know i'm making progress but at the same time whenever i see a kanji i can't read i'm like. it is impossible for me to ever learn japanese i can't understand ANYTHING and i will literally never get better it is embarrassing and i should just stop etc.

[vaulttecvevo]

i could live in paris easily if i could be fucked to learn french