今天的新朋友是 “坚持”。
这是我们常用到的词，有 persist, insist, perseverance 的意思，可以做动词，名词，形容词。单独使用时可以翻译为 hang in there。
“坚”和“持” 都有很多别的组合，比如：坚定(determined)，持久(lasting, enduring)。
As a professional Mandarin instructor with almost two decades worth of teaching experience in American schools, I came to recognize how language-learning in a school setting is only one step in the long journey of acquiring a foreign language. I felt a need and urge to bring my profession beyond school, and I believe professional teaching should be accessible to anyone at any point in their life. It is with this belief that I founded MAD Mandarin LLC in 2018 with the goal to incorporate the latest teaching methods with my own innovative approach of Mindful-Active-Dynamic to positively achieve the best language-learning results.