You know, in all my years of posting, I think I’ve done one post in Japanese. It’s time for another. おはようございます、皆さん。日本語お話しできます！びっくりですか？私も。私の日本語はよくないですけど、話しできます。恥ずかしい、でも頑張ります。 だけど、問題があります。 日本が大好きです。日本はたくさん綺麗な山と綺麗な町と優しい人があります。そのうち日本に滞在をしたい。だけど、オースチンに日本人ありません。も、私に日本人が優しいじゃないです。 だから、日本語は難しいです。勉強しますけど、練習できません。 時々日本語を止めたかった。でも、頑張ります。 今朝テキサスに、天気は曇りです。昨日雨が降りました。この月、天気は暑いですけど、今年が去年の方が涼しいよりです。よくテキサスはよくとても暑い、だからテキサス人は嬉しいです。 私の日本語はいいですか？ 知りない。でも、がんばりました。またね！ I guess it’s improved. Oh well.
So, I’ve gone all over the place on this blog, and I haven’t posted about Japanese for a long time. And I kinda don’t want to, really. But this blog is ostensibly about Japanese, so, I guess I’ll write about that. I’ve lost all interest. True, if I abandon Japanese
I’ve been studying Japanese (to varying degrees of success) for close to three years now (I think). It’s most certainly been a while. Over this time I’ve grown to understand where Japanese is simple and straightforward – and where it’s not. Here are what, in my opinion, are the most
And now for something completely different: A post about Japanese! I love the way some Japanese words sound. I will confess something: The long “I” sound is one of my favorite sounds. I’m not sure why – perhaps it’s because the abbreviation for the word “Interstate” in the US is
This one rather amuses me, though it’s a little on the adult side. So Americans, when they are getting intimate, use the word “come”. I’ll be circumspect and not come right out and say the context, but those of you that know what I’m talking about, know what I’m talking
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I don’t often pay attention to the stats on this blog. Quite frankly, I write because I want to. I have no illusions that I’ll ever be able to monetize this, and I have never sought to. If this blog ever gains enough popularity that I can try other projects
I’ve been using Wanikani lately I’ve gotten to level 5, and it’s actually a little frustrating. You have to get the radicals/kanji/vocabulary right a specific number of times, spaced out over months, before they consider the item “burned”, and you don’t have to see it again. And they dole out
Posts like these are hard to write, because I never quite now how they’re quite going to turn out, and I never quite know how much of my soul I’m going to bare in the process. About three months or so ago, I had a medical crisis that caused me
I’m sure, by now, if you pay attention to anything Japanese or related, you’ve found that a major US pop star with lots of beauty and very little talent has decided to get a tattoo with Japanese kanji. It is supposed to say “seven rings”, which I assume is the