Kanji

So, I’ve had this: HUGE kanji poster stuck on my wall for months now. I stare at it in wonder relatively often, but that’s about as far as it goes. It’s all the JLPT kanji in order and with readings. It… kind of freaks me out though. I started going through them today from the [...]

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군만두 and grammar

I made 군만두 (goon mandu) for the first time yesterday. They are fried (and part-steamed) Korean dumplings filled with all sorts of yummy stuff. I was surprised how well they turned out. I should have taken my own photo, but here from the web is a photo of ones that look very similar… Yummacious! Really! [...]

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マギー先生 and grammar

I saw a cute video today: I found it while checking out マギー先生. It’s sooo cute. My dog often sleeps like that too! Anyway, back to business. I posted a question regarding how to thank a professor, for example (on the Maggie Sensei site) and got an amazingly in depth reply. It’s certainly VERY helpful. [...]

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More grammar

べき (beki) Meaning: should do Notes: It is incorrect to use negative+べき. eg その本を読まないべきです。 (wrong) if you want to use negative use ほうがいい V-dict + べき 読むべき – should read するべき – should do 〜べき is conjugated like this Vruべき or すべき　(for the actual verb する only, or verbs like 充分する) 例：行くべき すべき Noun/ adj(na)であるべき　　　Adj(i)くべき [...]

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疲れている

Eehh. I can’t stop yawning today. Craaaaazy! I am so tired. I don’t know why, but there’s a lot of sickness going around here lately (Swine ‘Flu being only one possible).  Right now I’m sitting in the corridor waiting for my Korean class to start. So, I thought I’d post a quick something… I have [...]

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なるほど、良く分かる

I have been a little… crazy lately. But, good things are happening so… =^.^= I found another great site I want to talk to you about today. “Gimmeaflakeman” on YouTube makes a great series of videos called “Japanese for Morons”. They’re really awesome! I’ve been following him for a very long time (I’ve been on [...]

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Lots of thoughts

So, things are still getting into their groove. It’s a little crazy. H1N1 is sweeping through the University and also my son’s first grade class. We’re all a “little” sick, but thankfully nothing major. I hope to keep it that way. I’m already feeling behind. I created a list of all the kanji from Genki [...]

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疲れている

あまりに多くの宿題のするで私は疲れてしまった。 So… busy…. brain… melting! It’s really crazy. I have so much work–and trying to keep up with Japanese on top of Korean is a little daunting. However, I’ve decided (hopefully) that Korean will end up being my first language (well, technically second) and Japanese after that. Of course, I’d like to be fluent in [...]

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私の日

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ワッカ

I found a new website, wacca.fm. It’s awesome. It has many cool Japanese bands who offer music to download. Some of it is Creative Commons licensed, which means you can use it in videos on YouTube, for example, without getting copyright violation. As the site itself says: I have started downloading their podcast directly to [...]

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