A souvenir from Kyoto. Apparently it says ” don’t give up on your dreams” but I cannot understand the sentence grammatically. Can someone explain it to me ? (which verb is used, is it the て-Form as I think ) and why is まえへ repeated ? ( I am assuming the second kanji reads ‘mae’)

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1. It says “yume ni mukatte mae e mae e”

   夢に向かって前へまえへ

   Simple Translate says, “Towards the dream. Forward, forward.”

   Best I can do. Sorry.

2. 夢= dream

   向かって= te form of 向かう= to face, to head towards

   前へ= Forward
   まえへ= same as 前へ but written in hiragana only

   前へ前へ is almost like a command. Move forward, move forward!

   Hope that helped a little.

3. I’d say the spirit of it is like “Face your dreams, and move onwards, onwards.”

   Edit: it’s really cute!

4. Towards your dreams

   Forwards

   Forwards

5. am i the only one who thought about “give up on your dreams and die”