古池や furuike ya an ancient pond
蛙飛び込む kawazu tobikomu a frog leaps in
水の音 mizu no oto the sound of water
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The sound wasn’t working when embedding the video for some reason. I was embedding from our site, but I’ll try Youtube for a while. Interestingly, Youtube only has 24 views but it has 4 five [...]

Alrighty now, it is decided. I will take a huge leap toward maturity by learning the correct way to say ‘corn’ in Japanese.
For years I have called corn tomo koroshi (友殺し) around my wife and simply ko-n (コーン) to everyone else.
One fine evening:
Yumi: 今夜、何が食べたい？konya, nani ga tabetai? What do you want to eat tonight?
Clay: [...]

I forgot to add this video the other day! I’m not 100% happy with it, but it’s ‘finished’.

A Lady by the name of 國重友美さん (Kunishige Tomomi) has a very interesting form of kanji art. If you look closely at her kanji, you can see the English meaning spelled out using the alphabet hidden inside the kanji.
She has called this style 英漢字 (ええかんじ） mixing 英語 with 漢字. It is probably a [...]

Finally after months of playing Lost Planet, I found a Japanese player who actually had his microphone on! Last night the game moved from being a fun way to waste of a lot of time - to - being an educational tool promoting my foreign language acquisition skills.
Noticing a Japanese player hosting a Pirate [...]

You can’t imagine how pleased I was when looking over the stats I discovered yet another Google search phrase where 1nichi1kai.com is #1 (at least at this moment) .
This is the highly prized アリが父ちゃん search phrase. Yes, ‘An ant is my father’ in Japanese leads people directly here. Or actually directly here.
* Actually, [...]

Makoto helping out with orders

We were watching Makoto’s Wiggles DVD (highly recommended BTW) and when mentioning Henry the Octopus’ friends they repeatedly said Octopi as the plural of Octopus. I hadn’t heard that before and since I happened to be reading from the Fowler’s Modern English Usage I decided to turn to the O section, then OC, then [...]

A few years ago, 2004 I think, TV Japan played a Korean Drama called 冬のソナタ (Winter Sonata). You may have seen it as it was super popular in Japan. I remember seeing the face of ヨンさま (the star) everywhere in Japan. He was on the walls of supermarkets advertising some new-fangled ointment [...]