Two things happened on today’s 散歩 sanpo (dog and baby walk). We take a walk every day after the post man takes away the orders for the day. Things happen. Occasionally a big dog without a leash appears. He ignores us, but our little Tevye and Hana go crazy. Occasionally [...]
忍者犬
くのいちハナ参上
ninja ken
kunoichi hana sanjou
Ninja Dog
An Appearance by the Female Ninja Hana
A few days ago I began to notice Hana (our dog) suddenly appear inside when I distinctly remembered letting her out.
I blamed it on my thirty-something rampant senility, but after the third ‘deja vu’, I grew suspicious.
Hence today’s word:
神出鬼没
shin shutsu ki botsu
Appearing suddenly [...]
After months of not having them in stock, Amazon now has new Nintendo DS lites in stock for the standard $129.99 price:
Nintendo DS Lite - Polar White
The ‘Lite’ improves on the original DS giving the screen increased brightness, lighter weight and other slight adjustments.
The Nintendo DS is a super great tool for learning Japanese. [...]
I may get in trouble for this post…
My apologies to all the Gary’s and Deb’s out there.
Since my sister’s daughter was born three weeks ago we have been sick on rotation and haven’t been able to go over to see her. First, I fought a sore throat and head cold for [...]
Yumi and I got a dedication this week from a blogger:
http://madiart.blogspot.com/2007/03/wfgn-10-2d-edition.html
He keeps a blog called The Gallery of Visual Art and Industrial Design which is all about gaming particularly with the Nintendo Wii.
Wow! This is a first.
I had a lady write me this morning asking for children’s traditional songs in ‘English but not translated‘. I can only hope this means ‘please write it in romaji‘. She particularly wanted Momotarou.
I did a Google search for ‘momotaro’ and ‘dango’ since those were the first two words of the song that popped [...]
I use Japanese everyday. I read a good bit and spend a lot of time speaking to my wife, my one year old son, the dogs and various inanimate objects that happen to be in my way. However, I rarely speak Japanese with anyone else.
I realized a few months ago this made my [...]
A guy named Leonel has translated this video into subtitled Spanish:
Yumi has been reading a site that allows parents to post funny ‘bloopers’ their children have done. I’ll try to find the link later. Anyway, here is a good one:
Tarou: あれほしい。
Mother: あれって何？
Tarou: あれ！
Mother: ちゃんと名前を言いなさい！
Tarou: 太郎です。
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Vocab:
あれ are - that
ほしい hoshii - want
って tte - used as a kind of quotation marker
何 [...]
