Archive for the 'Vocabulary' Category

the koto trick; yes you can

Wednesday, November 2nd, 2005

these are my notes from my fourth lesson with ronan. we did this today via webcam with angelo and peter. today’s themes were expressing ability and continuing on with coming/going from last time. (i still need someone to check this out to see if it’s all kosher.)
part 1: the koto trick
i learned a trick […]

going to japan

Thursday, October 20th, 2005

i’ve decided, that while i’m going to participate in the group thing at Japanese! Japanese! i’m still going to keep notes here; after my japanese lessons or exchanges i’ll write down things i learn.
so today we talked about going places.
k: きょがっこにいきました。
r: kyo gakko ni ikimashita.
e: today i went to school
k: きょがっこにいきませんでした。
r: kyo gakko […]

I’ve Merged!

Wednesday, October 5th, 2005

i went over to japanesejapanese.com for real!
i merged my WP blog into mike’s, without any hairy database weirdness.
i simply used the handy WPexport plugin, making sure to save the exported text into a UT8-encoded text file.
then followed the import instructions.
bye bye!

rain, candy, tomorrow!

Friday, August 19th, 2005

雨 = あめ sounds like Ame; rain
飴 = あめ; ame; candy
明日 = みょうにち; tomorrow
i met with my japanese tutor for coffee, and talked about ideas on how to make the sessions most useful. we have loads in common, not least of which is mixing cocktails.
we talked about the problem with hiragana, because sometimes […]

speak real japanese

Wednesday, August 17th, 2005

this is a very generous fella, what a cool site. he’s bilingual and posts frequent phrases in his blog, to help people Speak Real Japanese, http://learning-jp.blogdrive.com/ he includes helpful pronunciation tips, and different ways to use words and phrases.
the author chooses to write in romaji, so my only wish is that it included the […]