Until further notice this blog remains here for archival purposes and is not actively posted on. It is unclear as to when this will change, but this is to let you know.

Kanji Set 3

February 4, 2009

Here is week 3 of our Kanji to learn.  It is going to get a bit harder now, but not too hard.  Again doing kanji for JLPT 4, so lets get started. Kanji: 百 Kana: (on) ヒャク,  ビャク,  ピャク Meaning: hundred Stroke Order Kanji: 千 Kana: (on) セン, ゼン Meaning: thousand Stroke Order Kanji: 万 [...]

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2009 Snow Festival Prep

February 2, 2009

I recently posted on Hokkaido and talked a bit about the Sapporo Snow Festival with a bit about what it was.  Here is a blog post by someone that took a few snapshots of the prep work for it.  Please visit the site and look through all the images. http://thiessentwosomejapan.blogspot.com/2009/02/makings-of-snow-festival.html Here are a couple interesting [...]

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Please Teacher (ep 2)

January 31, 2009

Please Teacher Episode 2 starts out the next day after the end of episode one where Mizuho and Kei are getting questioned by Kei’s Aunt and Uncle. The key thing is the day before there was an accident with the ship and the whole town saw it, not good. Next day news crews are all [...]

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Please Teacher (ep 1)

January 27, 2009

I am going to review please teacher as it is one of my favorite if not my favorite anime series of all time.  I honestly have no idea why I like it so much just something about it grabs me and makes it interesting.  I can say it is the first box set I have [...]

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Kanji Set 2

January 26, 2009

For week 2 we have another 5 Kanji to get us to the JLPT 4. These are still numbers so please refer to my first post on numbers(Numbers in Japanese, with Kanji) to get usage examples. Kanji: 六 Kana: ろく Meaning: 6 Stroke Order Kanji: 七 Kana: なな Meaning: 7 Stroke Order Kanji: 八 Kana: [...]

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Grammar 1

January 22, 2009

To start it is ok if you don’t know the words I have the translations of the sentences.  I recommend you try to learn the words as we go and look them up.  The important thing we are after for now is grammar so we know what to do with the words once we start [...]

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Aomori

January 21, 2009

Note/Disclaimer: This is a post that is meant to give a quick overview of some of Aomori and not full detail of everything. Aomori is much like a state in the US with a rich past, present, and future to come. I can’t possibly cover everything and getting the tip of everything would be a [...]

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Kanji Set 1

January 19, 2009

I am wanting to take the JLPT 4 in December this year so part of that is learning about 100 kanji.  So to start I am going to learn 5 kanji a week and going to post them up here.  I figured I could easily learn 5 a week as long as I keep up [...]

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Quick Summary of Hokkaido

January 18, 2009

Note/Disclaimer: This is a post that is meant to give a quick overview of some of Hokkaido and not full detail of everything. Hokkaido is much like a state in the US with a rich past, present, and future to come. I can’t possibly cover everything and getting the tip of everything would be a [...]

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At Home Dad (ep 2 and 3)

January 17, 2009

After the first episode you can kind of tell what is going to happen. Basically, going to be a complete role reversal.  However, I am very curios as to what is going to happen in the future because I expected a several episodes for the role reversal to be complete while both husband and wife [...]

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