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Hello, this blog is about my life as a father, Buddhist and Japanophile / Koreaphile. Any useful information I can pass along will hopefully make the Internets a better place. Thanks for reading!
Category Archives: Japanese
NASA: Another Day on the Job
Recently on Twitter, Astronaut and all-round nice guy Jack Fischer posted this photo on Twitter (used with permission): This is a Northrop T-38 Talon ramjet taken on a nice sunrise in Texas. The T-38 is a very popular jet airplane … Continue reading
Walk the Walk
Recently, I found a funny blog post on Twitter (thanks to Khatz from AJATT) about the two ways to learn a foreign language, using Lord of the Rings as the example. For those not familiar, if you look on the … Continue reading
One is Enough
Recently, my wife and I were talking about a certain famous pop singer. We agreed that this person sings really great, but wasn’t very attractive, then my wife said in Japanese: 天は二物与えず Ten wa nibutsu ataezu Basically this means “Heaven … Continue reading
Posted in Confucius, Japanese, Language
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Funny Spellings in Old Language
About the yeare of our Lord, 1554, a wenche who came from Glocester named Elizabeth Croft, about the age of eighteene yeares, stoode uppon a scaffolde at Poule’s Crosse all the sermon tyme, where shee confessed that she, being moved … Continue reading
Posted in Japanese, Korean, Language, Latin
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Language Exposure is Worth It
I have story to tell. When we first moved back to the US three years ago from Ireland, my daughter was still about 3 years old. We had purchased some Japanese-language Disney CDs and would play them in the car … Continue reading
Learning a Language, Taking a Chance
(Multitasking: at work, “studying” Korean) So as readers know, I’ve been studying Japanese for long while. I am not “fluent”, but I can get by OK. Not great, but I can carry a (sometimes awkward) conversation, or get my way … Continue reading
Jaded
Been feeling pretty jaded for a couple months now. I think this is also partly related to my recent post about not having any real accomplishments in my life. At first, I thought the problem was that I just needed … Continue reading
Posted in General, Japanese, JLPT, Language
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“Space Brothers” coming to the big screen!
I was very excited to hear from my wife a while back that one of my favorite Japanese manga, 宇宙兄弟 (uchū kyōdai) or “Space Brothers” is coming to the big screen in Japan. When I was first looking for Japanese … Continue reading
Posted in Astronomy, Japan, Japanese, JLPT, Language, Literature, Science
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Chinese Characters in Korean usage
Chinese culture has had a strong influence on Asian culture over the many centuries, and this is reflected in the writing systems. For example, when Korean society moved to use the Hangeul alphabet, Chinese characters or hanja (한자) were still … Continue reading
Playing Shogi Online
The topic of Shogi, or Japanese chess, is something I haven’t written about in a long, long time in this blog.1 Search the blog for “Shogi” and you’ll see what I mean. In fact, most of the posts I’ve written … Continue reading
Posted in Japanese, Language, Shogi
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