Showing posts with label freq-500. Show all posts
Showing posts with label freq-500. Show all posts

31 May 2010

警 - admonish - amonestar

Word:
  • 警察 KEIsatsu
  • English: police
  • Spanish: policia
Sentence:
  • 非常の場合は警察を呼びなさい
  • hijō no baai ha keisatu wo yobinasai
  • Call the police in an emergency
  • Llame a la policia en caso de emergencia
Mnemonics:
  • The upper part means respect 敬 and the lower part means to say 言
  • The pronnunciation is like 尊敬 sonKEI (respect), so respect what the police says!!

29 May 2010

断 - severance - division

Word:
  • 判断 hanDAN
  • English: judge
  • Spanish: juzgar
Sentence:
  • 本を表紙で判断するな
  • hon wo hyōshi de handan suru na
  • Don't judge a book by its cover
  • No juzges un libro por la portada
Mnemonics:
  • The right part is an axe 斤 and the left part contains rice 米. Imagine that there is a fight between two neighbors because they both say they own a certain rice field. The judge comes and uses an axe to divide the rice field in two parts!!

種 - species - especie

Word:
  • 種類 SHUrui
  • English: type, kind
  • Spanish: tipo
Sentence:
  • 彼女はお姉さんが着るのと同じ種類の服を着る
  • kanojo ha oneesan ga kiru no to onaji shurui no fuku wo kiru
  • She wears the same TYPE of clothes as her elder sister
  • Se pone el mismo TIPO de ropa que su hermana mayor
Mnemonics:
  • Left part is a rice plant 禾 and right part is heavy 重い omoi. So imagine a person carrying a lot of different TYPES of rice plants, they are so heavy!