Japanese Proverbs: To Kill Two Birds with One Stone

一石二鳥 isseki nichou - One stone; two birds

For more proverb lessons, please see http://www.thejapanesepage.com/vocabulary/kotowaza

Today's example sentence is:

演歌を聞くと、日本の文化に触れながら日本語の勉強ができるので、一石二鳥だ。
Listening to enka, I learn about Japanese culture and I am able to study Japanese at the same time. I kill two birds with one stone.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Japanese
• proverbs
• enka
• kotowaza

[DriftTrickster]

OH TY SO MUCH!

I love japanese and i wanna learn it so i can go to JAPAN!

Rated 5! :)

[thejapanshop]

Thanks here too X 5!

[ailashes]

Thank you for the upload! I like this proverb even in English, so hopefully I will be able to use it a lot. :) (rates 5)

[thejapanshop]

Thanks! (times 5)

[wreako24]

这是华语吧。。华人学日语汉字时应该会比较容易吧，还真的能靠华­语来猜日语哈哈！しかしながら、言語を学習することは常に良いで­すよ！

[lqlw01]

一举两得 ^^

[crocodile200]

Execellent! This is really useful thanks!

[gido0471]

シャジ

[donttasemebro92]

ah ching chang chang. japan > all

[thejapanshop]

Many proverbs are of Chinese origin.

[ROGER459]

Domo Arigato! RR

[laetizias]

Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[xRosesandThorns]

どうもありがとう！

[TheSpiderSpinoza]

i learnt like, a heap. thanks.