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III. . As to becoming a translator of Manchu, you are a Chinese scholar, and you can have no difficulty in learning to translate. All you need is an exclusive devotion of your mind to the one subject. Don’t let anything interfere with your studies, and let these be progressive; and in two or three years,


 * si
 * thou


 * nikan
 * Chinese


 * bithe
 * book


 * bahanara
 * Fut. Part. (5) of bahanambi to comprehend


 * niyalma
 * man


 * kai
 * is, final particle


 * ubaliyambure
 * Fut. (5) of ubaliyambumbi to translate


 * be
 * accusative affix


 * tacici
 * Cond. (6) of tacimbi to learn


 * umesi
 * very


 * ja
 * easy


 * dabala
 * only


 * gūnin
 * thought


 * girkūfi
 * Past Ger. (8) of girkūmbi to exert


 * giyalan
 * interval


 * lakcan
 * interruption


 * akū
 * not


 * emu
 * one; emu anani one after the other without interruption


 * tacime
 * Ger. (3) of tacimbi to learn


 * ohode
 * supposing, if


 * juwe
 * two


 * ilan
 * three


 * aniya
 * year


 * i
 * genitive affix


 * siden
 * middle


 * de
 * in