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Have you seen rivet guns?

I just now watched a TV program about restoring a steam locomotive, a "C-61". Even now, I occasionally see ironworks fastened w...
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Jul 16th 2011 23:10 tense
satoshi

漫画が好きではない。or 漫画は好きではない。(A Lesson of は and が)

漫画が好きです。(I like manga.) When you deny this sentence, do you say it like this? 漫画が好きではない。(I do not like manga./I dislike manga.) This...
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Jul 16th 2011 11:56 Japanese_language 「は」 「が」 助詞
satoshi

英語を教えるために、/ 英語を教えるためには、

英語を教えるために、テストを受けなくてはいけない。(a) 英語を教えるためには、テストを受けなくてはいけない。(b) This is an interesting example of は, the topic marker. (a) usually mean...
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Jul 15th 2011 14:17 Japanese_language 「は」
satoshi

It will be strange if Japan beats the US at football.

Some people are writing that the USA team will surely defeat Japan in the Women’s World Cup for football. I think that saying such things...
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Jul 15th 2011 08:14
satoshi

Is Megafeps only a jargon among Japanese students?

It means a pun to remember English verbs that are only followed by gerunds. It sounds like mega flops, floating point operations per seco...
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Jul 14th 2011 11:28 English_language
satoshi

怖い青鬼から逃げようとしたけど、どの部屋に入っても追いつかれていた。

I have been searching for a good example of this いた. (Thanks to an informant.) 怖い青鬼から逃げようとしたけど、どの部屋に入っても追いつかれていた。(a) I tried to run a...
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Jul 14th 2011 09:30 Japanese_language 「いた」 「ている」
satoshi

Who insisted on “because”, an actor or a writer? (なぜなら / という理由で)

He refused to go because he had no money. (a) He said he would not go because he had no money. (b) I wonder whose discourse these “be...
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Jul 13th 2011 20:20 English_language
satoshi

I don’t know that* I can, but I try ... 知らないが / 分からないが，やってみる

できるか分からないが，やってみます。(a) できるか知らないが，やってみます。(b) (* "if"?) I think dictionaries tell you (b) is a common translation, but (b) ...
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Jul 13th 2011 10:54 Japanese_language 「分かる」 「知る」
satoshi

Booking 桂離宮(Katsura Imperial Villa) and Others in Kyoto

Do you want to visit 桂離宮(Katsura Imperial Villa), 修学院離宮(Shugakuin Imperial Villa), and 仙洞御所(Sento Imperial Palace)? More than a few peopl...
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Jul 12th 2011 22:37
satoshi

Which are you of your friends, 親友, 心友, or 信友?

Today’s Nikkei (online) wrote about schoolchildren who use words like 親友, 心友, 信友 differently. Those words came from 親友 (close friends) an...
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Jul 12th 2011 09:48 Japanese_language 漢字
satoshi

子曰、攻乎異端、斯害也已矣

This is a passage from the Analects (論語) of Confucius. There are two understandings on the passage since old times. To learn heresy (dif...
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Jul 11th 2011 20:05
satoshi

そうでした / ようでした / ように見えました / …いそうでした

He seemed happy. 彼は嬉しそうでした。(a) 彼は嬉しいようでした。(b) The basic meaning of both is the same, but (b) sometimes sounds like you are doubting ...
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Jul 11th 2011 09:18 Japanese_language 「そう」 「よう」
satoshi

I was slightly disappointed at Hunk Hosono Goshi (細野豪志).

細野豪志 is a minister who is young, able, and very hunk. Many people think he is a front-runner of future Prime Minister of Japan. However, ...
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Jul 09th 2011 13:45 politics
satoshi

The Chinese government confesses to his crime.

According to the Japanese press, a spokesperson of the Chinese government said that the technology of the Chinese bullet trains is extrem...
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Jul 09th 2011 10:13 China intellectual_property
satoshi

Prime Minister Kan is doing a good job lately.

PM Kan is doing a good job, though the mass media are writing differently. He caused an incompetent major minister mention his resignatio...
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Jul 09th 2011 09:32 原発 politics
satoshi

NHK announcer Takeda Shin’ichi speaks uniquely.

Several people have told me that the Japanese language is easier to master than languages like Chinese and Thai, because the Japanese lan...
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Jul 08th 2011 20:46 Japanese_language
satoshi

I get chewed out about desu/masu (です／ます).

Some people got slightly mad at me when I did not use desu/masu on lang-8. I think many people consider the difference between desu/masu ...
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Jul 08th 2011 16:14 Japanese_language 「です」 「ます」
satoshi

食事をした後 or 食事をする後?

This exercise is from a book by Prof. Mark Petersen. According to him, basic learners of Japanese often make a mistake. Please write your...
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Jul 08th 2011 12:11 Japanese_language 時制
satoshi

Italian government and enterprises invite Fukushima families to Rome.

According to the press, the “Italian Friends for Japan” project is inviting many families around the Fukushima Plant to Rome. They can st...
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Jul 07th 2011 20:01 Japanese_language
satoshi

Dr. Frog International Holding Ltd. (博士蛙国際控股)

Today’s Nikkei wrote about Boshiwa International Holding Ltd., which is, I hear, the industry leader in children’s clothing in China and ...
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Jul 07th 2011 08:30 China
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