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一石二鳥 Killing two Birds with one Stone

Submitted by clay on Tue, 10/28/2008 - 23:45

Japanese proverbs

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 一石二鳥
Kill Two Birds with One Stone

一石二鳥
Japanese
 いっ　せき　に　ちょう isseki ni chou
Literal
 One stone; two birds
English Equivalent
 Killing two birds with one stone.
Notes

This is one of the few proverbs that is almost exactly the same as a famous English proverb.

一石 isseki - One stone [The ichi adds a small っ; another common pronunciation for stone is ishi]
二鳥 ni chou - Two birds [an on reading for bird is chou]




Example Sentence


演歌を聞くと、日本の文化に触れながら日本語の勉強ができるので、一石二鳥だ。
enka o kiku to, nihon no bunka ni furenagara nihongo no benkyou ga dekiru node, isseki nichou.
Listening to enka, I learn about Japanese culture and I am able to study Japanese at the same time. I kill two birds with one stone.

 

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演歌 enka - traditional Japanese popular music style
聞くと kiku to - when listening...
日本の文化 nihon no bunka - Japanese culture
触れながら furenagara - while experiencing; ながら means 'while'
日本語 nihongo - Japanese language
勉強 benkyou - study
日本語の勉強 nihongo no benkyou - studying Japanese
できる dekiru - can; able
ので node - therefore
だ da - plain form of です; copula

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