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Unfortunately, she doesn't know a single word in the poem's first line.
After spending 15 minutes pounding seven words into her memory, her enthusiasm evaporates.
This actually is incredibly difficult...
I'm not surprised that I have nothing to show for my six years of Chinese school. It feels like the knowledge is just washing over my brain like water over plastic.
Is my brain just not wired for this?
Could it be genetic? Even after living the majority of their lives in America, my parents haven't mastered English, either.
It takes another 15 minutes for her to finally overcome the first line of the poem.
At last! Onto the second line!
And I already know all these words.
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Mirror flower water moon.
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...........
It's total gibberish. Is it supposed to sound poetic mushed together like that?
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Mirror flower water moon.
Noelle feels the urge to tear the magazine to shreds.
Perhaps noticing her hands quaking with barely surpressed rage, Chun-hua peers over Noelle's shoulder to see what she's reading.
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What's wrong?
Nothing. I'm just translating one of my mom's poems.
Why don't you ask your mom for help?
I'd rather die.
Oh. Okay.
Maybe I can help instead?
Where are you stuck?
What's this supposed to mean? {font=chunhua_chinese.ttf}鏡花水月?{/font}
Oh, that's a...How do you call it?
A saying. Like the lesson of a story.
Flower in the mirror, moon in the water
It's short for 鏡子裡的花，水面上的月亮.
Pretty much, it means something that you can see but never grasp.
Like a flower reflected in a mirror, or the moon shining on the water's surface?
Yes. You can't reach your hand through the mirror and take the flower out, it's impossible.
You can only look, never have it.
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learningChinese_eb45f514
Source string description
Speaker: ChunHua
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Source string location
game/4_noelle.rpy:1542
String age
a year ago
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translations.pot, string 4362