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I am a potter, photographer and linguist. I speak Japanese, Mandarin, French, English as well as other dialects in each. I am interested in the language of minority speakers including Inuit, the Zhuang, the Okinawan dial...
Monthly Archives: June 2008
Chinese tap water is SAFE
What you are about to read may or may not surprise you but I decided to write about this because the question of whether or not tap water is safe in China or any other country may well be tainted with lies from the corpo...
French expressions of feelings on MP3
Another MP3 for your collection this time learning feelings in French. AudioPlayer.embed("pod_audio_1", {soundFile: "http%3A%2F%2Fwww.irohaproject.org%2Fblog%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2010%2F07%2Ffeelings.m...
What is the name of this fruit?
Go on don’t be shy and comment below – what do you think this is? ...
French basic expressions on MP3
With all the cell phones, ipods, and ipads in the world as well as those being sold daily I have this crazy idea to make MP3s that people could download and listen to. These are not the average language learning MP3 of a...
Traditional Herbs and Teas: LuoHanGuo – Siraitia grosvenori
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Contest: What is this?
Since I have reached an average of 3000 monthly and 300 daily visitors to this blog I thought that it is now time for a contest. I am sorry that I am not giving away any computers or ipod/ipad electronic devices nor I am...
NingMing and surroundings
This was taken just outside NingMing town from the bus window on the way to Yulin, Guangxi. According to the GPS on my video camera the exact location is 22deg 23min. 46.4sec N, 107deg 28min. 26.6sec. E. I am wondering w...
Consumers of virtual space
The other day my QQ mail account doubled again to 32Gb for the third time and I thought how do they do it? Companies like Gmail for instance, if you go to Gmail.com you will see a counter and see the numbers increase ...
大分の料理：そばやせうま Oita local recipe: Buckwheat Yaseuma
What does a linguistics blog have to do with food? I am not sure why not, this is a traditional recipe from Oita Japan called yase uma. Yase (八瀬) being the name of the person who according to story made it for a chil...
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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.")
