Tell Your World - Music Video
Someone shared a music video on Google+ and I found it by chance. This song, "Tell Your World", was originally composed for a c...
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My B-Class Gourmet - Canned Broiled Saury
Have you ever eaten canned broiled saury (さんまの蒲焼の缶詰)?
When I stay at home alone I often eat it for lunch. It is cheep (about 100 yen) ...
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春だったね - Ambiguous Lyrics of an Old Japanese Song
It was very warm today. Spring has come. While I was walking with my dog, Peter, I suddenly remembered an old Japanese song. I was thinki...
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I renew my sympathy to the victims and to their families. We have received many prayers and many supports from all over the world. We wou...
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Line Job and ライン作業
Yesterday I made corrections on the following entry by Celine and had a little talk about Japanese translations of the word "line jo...
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A Cliche Is a Cliche Is a Cliche
I came across the following web page:
http://lsa.dialog.jp/qaboard/qab-show-answers.php?no=482
The page mentioned the book titled &qu...
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Finding Common Phrases With Google
Today I found an entry about a new iPhone App serendipitously (my favorite 15-letter word). The author, who is also the creator of the Ap...
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Jury vs Saiban-in or 12 Angry Men vs 6 Gentle Japanese
Last week I asked about the judicial system in Japan, but I couldn't explain it well. I tried in vain to talk about the differences b...
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A Missing Piece Of The English Education In Japan
Assume that you are going to learn how to play tennis. You will take lessons from the J's tennis school. To become an excellent playe...
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A/The Medium Is A/The Message
About a week ago, I read the following article:
Print is Dead! Long Live Print?
http://techcrunch.com/2012/02/25/print-is-dead-long-l...
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Why Do I Forget To Write the Word 'That'?
This morning I read an entry written by redshoes:
http://lang-8.com/355885/journals/1345689
This entry was about the conjunction &quo...
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My Family's Japanese Doll Festival
Today is Girls' Day or the day of the Japanese Doll Festival called Hina-matsuri (ひな祭り）. A family with girls, especially small girls,...
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Chihayafuru
A melody stuck to my mind. It has been replaying over and over in my head since yesterday. It was "Youthful" from "Chihaya...
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Is It True That 1 in 4 Collage Students Do Not Understand the Concept of an Average? (3)
previous entries:
(1) http://lang-8.com/11658/journals/1338510
(2) http://lang-8.com/11658/journals/1339465
(3) The true concept of ...
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Is It True That 1 in 4 Collage Students Do Not Understand The Concept Of An Average? (2)
previous entry:
http://lang-8.com/11658/journals/1338510
(2) The scoring method
The report said that the percentage of correct ans...
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Is It True That 1 in 4 Collage Students Do Not Understand The Concept Of An Average? (1)
A few days ago, a survey result was reported on TVs and newspapers:
"1 in 4 college students answer test question on averages inc...
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English As an Official Language: Rakuten's Case Study
Usually I ignore advertising e-mail messages but this morning I accidentally opened such a message and came across to the following artic...
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Japan is the Worst: TOEFL iBT Scores in Asia
Today is Sunday and I had some spare time. So I did a little research on TOEFL scores in Asia. I have heard that the English skills of Ja...
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Screaming on the Dark Side of the Moon
When I was eating late breakfast on Sunday morning I noticed that a familiar melody was playing on the TV in the next room. Wow, it was P...
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Describing Countries by the ODA Loan Figures
Recently I read a book about using English as an official language in Japanese companies:
もし御社の公用語が英語になったら
http://www.amazon.co.jp/dp...
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