The Japanese language and its surroundings: 超
Returning to the changes of the Japanese language and the language of youth in Japan an often familiar word used by Japanese youth is the word 「超」chou. Chou is often used to express “very” as in 「チョー気...
Monthly Archives: December 2009
Teaching Resources
I managed to get a hold of a copy of the book Putting it Together: A Conversational Management Text by Kevin McClure from Amazon as far as I saw it was the last one in stock or maybe each Amazon book shop has a different...
Japanese dialects – Oita
After spending many years in Japan, my favorite place is still Kyushu. Although I do not have any relatives there I still feel that Kyushu is home. The longest I’ve spent in Kyushu has been Oita on a small remote islan...
Japanese language: Verbs 事故る
Here is an interesting new Japanese verb. 事故る。Originally it is made up of the noun 事故accident and るto become the verb, to have an accident. It is interesting to note that this is not some new Japanese gramm...
Foreign language learning
As a foreign language teacher and part time linguist for many years I love teaching and learning languages. I speak three fluently and my newest acquisition being Mandarin Chinese. As a speaker of three languages and goi...
World greetings
As an interesting long term project I would ask readers to submit a recording of their language/dialect’s greetings and I would create a world map something like a world language map. A lot of work for a motivated ...
The changes of language: 大丈夫
The Japanese expression, 「大丈夫」[Daijyoubu] has a quite a broad degree of meaning to it. Take the following examples into consideration: 「禁煙席で大丈夫ですか？」[Kin en seki de daijyoubu desuka?] a...
Spam Mail for a lesson plan
Perhaps most teachers have had trouble coming up with lesson plans now your worries are over. Do you receive spam mail or unsolicited junk email? I never thought much about it and trashed most of my junk mail until recen...
Ohayo!
Here is something interesting. Have you heard people saying 「おはよう」[Ohayo], Good morning for an afternoon greeting? Apparently the trend among youth in Japan is to use Ohayo among friends according to a Kansai...
The Power of Sentences
Although I am not all that certain on how true the last post on Bush is but I have to agree on at least the first four sentences. Just to survive in a foreign country it does not take much vocabulary nor grammatical st...
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![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.")
