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Word:
- 失敗 shipPAI
- English: failure
- Spanish: fracaso
Sentence:
- 万一僕が失敗すれば、両親がどんなにがっかりすることだろう
- man'ichi boku ga shippai-sureba, ryōshin ga donna ni gakkari-suru koto darō
- How disappointed my parents would be, if I should fail!
- Si por casualidad fracasara, que decepcionados estarian mis padres!
Mnemonics:
- The left part is a shell 貝 and the right part looks like a folding chair. The shells and the folding chair remind me of the beach. So imagine that you are a child collecting shells for a competition and you fail. The winner stands up on the folding chair!!
Word:
- 熱い ATSUi
- English: hot
- Spanish: caliente
Sentence:
- 彼はスープが熱すぎると文句を言った
- kare ha suupu ga atsusugiru to monku wo itta
- He complained of the soup being too hot
- Se quejo de que la sopa estaba demasiado caliente
Mnemonics:
- Imagine that this Kanji gives a very intense red thanks to its components. The lower part is fire, its like a gas stove, where you are cooking. Then we have a ball 丸 which represents a round pan where you are cooking. Then we have earth 土 and something similar to red 赤, so you can imagine some red product from the earth like an eggplant. So you are cooking an eggplant with strong fire and all is red, which gives you the idea of heat!!
- Important: this is hot for things, for weather we have 暑い atsui
Word:
- 満足 MANzoku
- English: satisfied
- Spanish: satisfecho
Sentence:
- 両親は私の今年の成績に満足した
- ryōshin ha watashi no kotoshi no seiseki ni manzoku shita
- My parents were satisfied with my grades this year
- Mis padres estaban satisfechos con mis notas de este año
Mnemonics:
- The left part is water, the right part has grass and both 両
- Imagine a person in a garden who is filling a bucket with water and is holding the pipe with both hands. He fills the bucket completely!!
Word:
- 雑誌 ZASshi (ざっし)
- English: magazine
- Spanish: revista
Sentence:
- 彼女は雑誌にざっと目を通した
- kanojo ha zasshi ni zatto me wo tooshita
- She glanced though the magazine
- Ella echo una ojeada a la revista
Mnemonics:
- The main components of this Kanji are old bird 隹, nine 九 and tree 木
- I prefer to associate the Kanji with continuation 進 rather than bird. This way I can think of a TV magazine, made of paper/tree, that I can check to know when the next chapter of my favourite series will continue. The magazine is released every 9 days.
Word:
- 程度 TEIdo
- English: what degree of.., to what extent..
- Spanish: que grado de.., hasta que punto..
Sentence:
- 自分たちがどの程度他人に依存しているのかを悟っていない
- jibun-tachi ga donoteido tanin ni izon-shite iru no ka wo satotte nai
- We don't see the extent to which we depend on others
- No percibimos el grado en que dependemos de otras personas
Mnemonics:
- The kanji is composed of rice plant 禾, mouth 口 and king 王. We will use the example sentence to say that the king doesn't realize to which extent he depends on normal people to bring rice to his mouth!!
Word:
- 着替える kiGAERU
- English: changing clothes
- Spanish: cambiarse de ropa
Sentence:
- 私は服を着替えるために家へ帰った
- watashi ha fuku wo kigaeru tame ni uchi e kaetta
- I went home in order to change my clothes.
- Volvi a casa para cambiarme de ropa
Mnemonics:
- The upper part are two husband 夫 and the lower part means day 日. Imagine two couples going spend the day on the beach. When they arrive, the two husbands realized that they forgot the swim clothes to change, so they have to be in the beach in underwear!!
