Illegal French Lesson: Monday Again? I Feel Like Punching the Ground!

Today, Teacher Fei Ni Kesi is teaching us a French word: lundi (Monday). In Mandarin, it sounds a little like “lun di,” meaning “swing your fist down and punch the ground.”

Here’s a way to remember it: it’s Monday, lundi—everyone wants to clench a fist and punch the ground.

Just don’t confuse it with qiang di in the Chinese idiom hu tian qiang di (“crying to heaven and beating the ground”), though the feeling is about the same.

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