Japan vs China PRThe football season here in Japan is beginning soon. I am a big fan of Liverpool FC back in the UK, where it's known as football, but have been missing most of the games.
So decided to get into soccer here this year, supporting Japan and a local tea...
UFO Catcher Win!A few hundred-yen coins later Rilakkuma is mine!
First time winning at a UFO Catcher (Claw/crane machine)
All credit goes to my wife for two spectacular plays.
Have you won anything in the arcades before?
Trainspotting in JapanWish I could get a better photo of this group. They were almost falling onto the tracks to get a good photo of the train, and one guy was standing on a box.
After the train passed some of them ran to the other end of the platform, I guess to get a p...
CD Rental in JapanWent to Tsutaya last night and rented these CDs. Rather than letting you scan the barcode of the CD to listen to it, this store had proper CD players and the actual CD was in the case. So I picked up a few CDs off the shelf and had a listen.
The tru...
New Year's Lucky BagsThese bags range from 1000円 to 10000円 and contain all sorts of items.
I've never bought one myself but I'm told they always contain more than what you pay for, sometimes a lot more.
Japanese New Year's DecorationWe're now back in Japan and all the Christmas decorations have been replaced by New Year's decorations.
So we're picking a decoration to go on our front door. They range from small to huge containing things like flowers, fruit, patterned paper, wire...
Merry Christmas from the UK!My brother brought this with him, a chocolate log with ferrero roche on cocktail sticks... awesome!
No room for it right now tho... Need to sleep off the Christmas dinner!
Hope you all have a great Christmas!
Snow in the UKWhat a perfect start to the Christmas holiday!
We landed just before the snow came down. Now there are flight and traffic delays. Good timing!
We're off to go throw some snowballs!
Japanese Chocolate SweetsWe are going to the UK for Christmas and are very excited to see family again! Bought Green Tea KitKat & Giant Pocky for the family (and me ^^).
Boarding our flight soon!
What are your favourite Japanese sweets?
Just bought NihongoUp for the iPhoneI love this game. Learning vocab in context is good fun. This seems to be the app I've been hoping for. I'll review it later this week.
Have you played this yet? What's do you think of it?
Kanji in the Wild: 目黒目黒 (めぐろ)
目 = Eye
黒 = Black
I vaguely remember a story from studying with Heisig saying that 黒 is made up of a squashed 火 "fire" at the bottom and 里 can mean "home of your parents; hometown". So a home on fire turns black!
目 "Eye" is eas...
Reading Childrens Books in JapaneseReading myself a bedtime story ^^ I find reading through the hiragana, even if I don't understand it all is good fun and good practice.
Are you reading any childrens books in Japanese? Do you know any online resources for childrens stories?
Japanese Flashcard Scrapbook Part 2These are perfect for cutting out and adding to my flashcards! They're coming along nicely now and I'll post more about them soon.
Do you keep a healthy balance of fun, creativity and study when learning Japanese? What things do you do to keep it fr...
Japanese Flashcard ScrapbookExperimenting with making a flashcard scrapbook with no English. I'm focusing on vocabulary atm and my ability to read hiragana is good enough to learn using pictures and Japanese only. I'll eventually add the kanji too.
I have a notebook with me an...
今日 (きょう) "Today" - Studying kanji on the train今日 (きょう) = Today
電車 (でんしゃ) = Train
Very tired this morning so not studying hard but flicking through my Kanji Flashcards from White Rabbit Press on the train to work. It's important to at least study something each day, even if it's just...
何 (なに) "What" - Discussing what to do at work over a tasty warm lunchAnother lunch order done. This time I was tripped up by the salad options and I still haven't quite got the hang of portion sizes yet... That is one thing I need to stop stumbling through, so adding them to my word list.
I think I was asked which sa...
