The Vietnamese word for leather is the same as the Vietnamese word for skin, da. However, the tropical climate in Saigon means that there is little chance for people to actually wear clothes made out of “skin”. More likely they would be wearing bông, which means cotton but can also mean flower. Nhựa is the […]
Have you ever wondered why the Japanese calendar system has seven days just like we have all over the West and why the meetings of Sunday and Monday seemingly match up (”sun” day and “moon” day) while the rest of the Japanese days are so different from what we use in English or in any […]
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