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Where There's a Will There's a Way - Japanese Proverbs and Their English Equivalents (Paperback)
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Where There's a Will There's a Way - Japanese Proverbs and Their English Equivalents (Paperback)
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Loot Price R204
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The English may say, 'Where there's a will there's a way,' and the
Japanese, 'A concentrated mind pierces even a rock', but the
meaning is clearly the same; 'Too many boatmen sail the boat up the
hill' may be the same as the English, 'Too many cooks spoil the
broth', but the Japanese version has a delightful absurdity about
it which is illustrated in Kathryn Lamb's witty cartoon. These and
many more proverbs and sayings feature in Where There's a Will
There's a Way, which joins the family of six other bilingual
illustrated proverb books, devised in 1985 by Primrose Arnander and
the late Ashkhain Skipwith: three in Arabic, and one each in
Italian, French and Chinese. Each title in the series gives the
proverb in its original (and where the scripts are different,
provides the original script and its transliteration), the literal
translation and the English equivalent. They are not intended as
weighty works of scholarship, but rather as a source of
entertainment. They make the perfect gift, as well as being useful
to language students, whatever their native tongue. The cartoonist
Kathryn Lamb has brought her skills to all seven titles.
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