“いえ”に帰る？“うち”に帰る？
Here is a question that most Japanese students often ask me. What is the difference between うちに帰るand 家に帰る, here is the answer. 家 can be read いえ・や・カ・ケ but うち is not written in kan...
Monthly Archives: December 2009
Linguistic personalities
I’m a thoughtful sort of person. I like to think things over before coming to a conclusion. I am not loud or persuasive. But China changed me. I had been living in China for three years and felt comfortable in the ...
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...
Hakka migration
Due the great threats of war among other incidents, the Hakka fled in 5 stages. The first began with an invasion of non-Chinese from the north into the plains. This had created a period in Chinese history known as the 16...
The Hakka (客家)
A long time ago I came across information on the Hakka a southern dialect and people of China – and communicated with the writer. No longer in touch and the papers I have printed out I am sure are all yellow from a...
Speaking language for stress relief
Walking around southern China where people naturally speak one language in the home, a language in the street and another language in public offices and department stores. No wonder why they are so relaxed and easy going...
Japanese responses to university survey
I was having a read through some of the answers to a student survey about APU and it is amazing to see the differences between the Japanese answers and the English answers assuming that most of the Japanese answers were ...
Chinese Etymology
I came across a couple of very good etymology sites yesterday one is a GPU opensource project of sourceforge. The Kanji Database Project kanji-database.sourceforge.net and the Chinese Etymology at internationalscientific...
Play on words 朱肉 (shuniku): Mandarin and Japanese
I go and buy a red ink pad (朱肉: shu niku) for my inkan. The characters are also read in Mandarin Chinese as zhu1 rou4 completely meaningless in Chinese but zhu1 rou4 sounds like 豚肉: zhu1 rou4(pork). (The 1 and 4 ...
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![It originates on the misfortune day [Red tongue day]. Besides, it is assumed the misfortune by the good luck only until about 1 PM of 11 AM. It takes care about the origin of fire and cutlery. The thing that [Death] is associated in a word is noted.](http://www.irohaproject.org/blog/wp-content/plugins/koyomi/image/roku5.gif "It originates on the misfortune day [Red tongue day]. Besides, it is assumed the misfortune by the good luck only until about 1 PM of 11 AM. It takes care about the origin of fire and cutlery. The thing that [Death] is associated in a word is noted.")
