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Thursday, February 14, 2013

ài

So far today we've done a little activity with Andrea´s advanced 1 group 1 class. They were reading poems and doing a little quiz on love quotes. Some of them were even prepared without knowing it, because they were wearing red :-))

Then we went into Pino´s class and we learnt how to make the Chinese character for LOVE. Here it is
Most people recognized this Chinese character as “Ai”, which translates to “love.” Last quarter I had a Chinese Professor who was very knowledgeable about the origins of Chinese characters. Sometimes she would explain to us why exactly characters were written the way they were and what little characters combine to make new characters. 
For  ”Ai”, she told us something along the lines of… “This character is written with the character for ‘friend’ (友) underneath the roof because the Chinese knew that in order for love to exist, there must be friendship.”

The name of this post is the transcription of how they pronounce it. I'll keep updating you as the day goes on.

I would also like to thank Andrea, Whitney and Pino for their collaboration.

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