Diaspora Leicester in Translation

Category: Sayings

  • Cooking and Cat: A Little Scratch

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    Yan Ying
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    How you cook is so often influenced by your family way: a tradition, but sometimes a tradition only nested amongst your kins, and to an extent, a region where you are from. In this recording, our FSO colleague from Northern China recalled a favourite phrase his grandma often says when adding finishing touches to a…

  • What a Wise Man Says about the relationship?

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    Yan Ying
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    Listen to this recording. You will hear how the wisdom about the relationship is passed on in a saying. Do you have a similar saying to share?

  • DLiT Sayings Collection in Postcards (5-8)

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    Yan Ying
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    The photos printed on all these postcards were taken by Michelle and Yan during their time in Leicester. Can you tell where they were taken? Send us your answers in the comments or by email dlit@leicester.ac.uk We will send you a set of postcards, if you get >6 correct!

  • DLiT Sayings Collection in Postcards (1-4)

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    You may have heard all these sayings in English. Do you want to know that other languages have similar sayings? We have selected 17 sayings in 16 languages printed on the other side of the postcards (Yes, there are a lot more!). If you would like to have a set, please read the next blog…

  • Sayings Collection 2

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    Yan Ying
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    We are opening another post so that you can add more sayings here. Michael Rosen’s Word of Mouth (Radio 4, BBC) features an episode on Family Sayings (13 February 2024): https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001w73h In Leicester, the diverse languages will render us sayings with wisdom and humour from many different cultures.  Please share sayings or expressions of your family other than…

  • Some sayings from Denmark

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    Yan Ying
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    Author: Kirsten Hvad ved bønder om agurkesalat? (what do farmers know about cucumber salad) This is a self-depreciating saying to indicate that the person saying it feels incompetent to judge concerning a certain issue. The basis is, I suppose, that the cucumber salad mentioned involves very thin slices of cucumber, pickled, and a suggestion that…

  • Sayings Collection 1

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    Yan Ying
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    Michael Rosen’s Word of Mouth (Radio 4, BBC) features an episode on Family Sayings (13 February 2024): https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001w73h In Leicester, the diverse languages will render us sayings with wisdom and humour from many different cultures. Please share sayings or expressions of your family other than English here by adding a comment. 1.) Write the saying…

  • Sayings from Cicheng, Zhejiang, China

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    Yan Ying
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    Author: Yan I had a wonderful time with my dad, recalling a few classic sayings my Ah Niang (Cicheng dialect, grandmother) used to say. These sayings reflect the folk wisdom, pragmatism and humour of the Chinese people living through the turbulent years of most of 20th century.  And they are still present today in my…