The Iroha Project
The Iroha Project main site finally recieved the much needed updates to the Japanese section. Presently, both English and Japanese images and audio are running very well. There are a few difficult to hear sounds that nee...
Monthly Archives: March 2009
Taxi!
Although Mandarin Chinese is the largest dialect of the Chinese languages and most widely spoken, it is interesting to note that there are still linguistic differences between Taiwan mandarin and Mainland Chinese mandari...
Movies
A few good movies worth mentioning are Kikujiro (1999) 122 minutes by the Japanese director Kitano (Beat) Takeshi. The cast: Beat Takeshi, Yusuke Sekiguchi, Kayoko Kishimoto. A change of pace for Kitano, Kikujiro takes a...
Diversity
Monocultures are dangerous. In the 21st century creating uniformity and eliminating diversity become increasingly powerful. But diversity and complexity are always healthier and more interesting – in chickens, corn...
Yulin dialect
The Yulin dialect is a branch of of the Guangdong dialect (Cantonese). The Yulin dialect is spoken in southwest China Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in Yulin city and surroundings. It is interesting to note the differe...
Boycott the Vancouver Olympics!!
It seems to me that the Vancouver Olympics is going to be one of the most un-welcomed events. I certainly hope so. I think it is disgusting to see that Vancouver Olympic committee chose the inukshuk for their Olympic sym...
Time Wasters
I begun to believe that office workers and or companies in general really know how to waste time. Perhaps it is really the fault of the company that forces workers to be at work for eight hours a day. I recieve a documen...
Graduate degrees
Several years after graduation it is hard to go back to school and do a graduate degree. I have always thought about doing it but the question of getting an advanced degree does not necessarily get you a job so what do y...
Foreign Teachers vs Asian teachers
A Chinese friend once told me that foreign English teachers are supposed to be kind, gentle and make the students laugh. This is the general thinking of most Asian students. Asian teachers on the other hand tend to be st...
Language learning: Effective speaking skills
Effective tip number one for learning to speak a new language. Most people believe that they must have a teacher teach them a new language but this is simply not true. This is passive learning and it is preferred among t...
12
Cool Sites To Check Out
Hire Me
12.3
2012/01/14
![Meaning of [The friend is pulled to the unlucky affair]. The good luck and daytime are large good lucks in the misfortune and the evening in the morning. However, the funeral is abhorred.](http://www.irohaproject.org/blog/wp-content/plugins/koyomi/image/roku1.gif "Meaning of [The friend is pulled to the unlucky affair]. The good luck and daytime are large good lucks in the misfortune and the evening in the morning. However, the funeral is abhorred.")
