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Heading to Tokyo or a different part of Japan for a business trip? Heading there in the summer time? Get ready for some hot times. It’s going to be “jungle hot” or “swamp hot”. Can you say, “humid”? Actually, you should probably learn how to say that. It will be a great conversation started with [...]
- In: Tokyo
- Tags: business trip to Tokyo, heat island, japan, summer time
Fun with Japanese Particles: ところが ”tokoro ga”
1, May 2011Learning Japanese particles is the corner stone to laying a strong foundation for your Japanese study. This is the first installment of outlining the use of Japanese particles. You’re going to love this. It will be short, sweet and tremendously valuable when you apply your normal vocabulary to this structure.
Tips:
Gather a few words you use [...]
- In: Cool Stuff| Tokyo
- Tags: japan, Japanese Particles, ところが
This past weekend, LMU hosted the 2nd annual WordCamp LA. Like 2009, WordCamp LA 2010 was an undeniable success. Of the many great sessions I attended, Allison Day’s session was the type of lecture I love to see at events like this. All too often many perspective attendees opt not to attend due to the [...]
- In: Cool Stuff| Los Angeles| Tokyo
- Tags: allison day, brendon david, CSS, HTML, japan, sushiday.com, Tokyo, wordcamp la, WordCamp LA 2011, Wordpress
Bugs in Japan go to Thunder Dome
12, Feb 2010You love MMA as much as the next guy that thinks he’s tough, but what if you had to wrestle a preying mantis on the website Japanese Bug Fights? Could you hang as long in insect wresting as you do in your mind when your imagine yourself kicking the crap out of that jackass in [...]
- In: Cool Stuff
- Tags: bug fights, crawfish, japan, japanese
Improve Your Japanese with Onomatopoeia
9, Feb 2010Hiroko Fukuda has brought us a fantastic book for learning Japanese called Jazz Up Your Japanese with Onomatopoeia. If you’re like us and have had a challenging time learning another language, then you know the suffering and pain associated with conjugations, specialized vocabulary and not sounding like a total loser.
Not only does this book cover [...]
- In: Tokyo
- Tags: hiroko fukuda, japan, japanese, jazz up your japanese, JETRO test, JPLT, onomatopoeia