Happy Year of the Tiger!

I don’t know if I explained this before, but every (solar) new year I send nengajō (new years’ cards) to my past Japanese teachers. It’s fun! Anyway, here’s mine from this year. It has a tiger and says “kinga shinnen”, which is a more formal “Happy New Year”.

Tomorrow I will ask my Vietnamese-speaking friends how to pronounce chúc mừng năm mới, since I can already do 新年快乐.

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Once again, Happy Lunar New Year to everyone who celebrates it, and Happy Thursday to everyone who doesn’t. Like last year I’ve got some translations, mostly just for fun…with a little bonus thrown in.

恭喜发财 — yes, that is me speaking, sounding a bit confused

새해 복 많이 받으세요 — because I’m reading/watching a traditional Korean story for a class

Chúc mừng năm mới — might be able to pronounce it if someone gave me IPA and solfege

Like last year, I’m going to post the nengajō I made (that’s a Japanese New Year’s card). There’s no happy new year in Japanese because the Japanese calendar is now solar, specifically the Gregorian calendar.

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恭喜發財

Chúc mừng năm mới

새해 복 많이 받으세요

And “Happy Lunar New Year” for the rest of us. Sorry, I’m not going to look up every language that celebrates it.

So the picture on the left is the nengajō (New Year’s card) I made for Japanese class. I’m too lazy to make another one for actual Lunar New Year, but it’s still the Year of the Boar so…

You can view a larger picture of the card, and read the translations below.

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