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Feb 2008 Exams

Another boring “about me” update, I’m afraid. In around 35 hours, I will sit down for three hours to take my Japanese language exam. It consists of two English to Japanese translation exercises and one Japanese to English one. Those... ...full story at Japan Is Doomed

from Japan Is Doomed on Tue, Feb 05 2008

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07 Apr 08 visit The Kind Cat (English version)  »  YouTube videoThis is my first try at animating. I worked on it while studying abroad at Osaka University of Arts in Japan and the original language was Japanese. The lip movement was made to fit the Japanese language track so in parts the English is off. There are...
23 Sep 07 visit English words, but Japanese meanings  »  What Japan Thinks I had one of these “you know you’ve been in Japan too long” moments reading this list, as for three or four of them I had to stop and think if they really were Japanese inventions, 和製英語, wasei eigo, Japanese-style English! How...
09 Feb 08 visit Post Exam Thoughts & Semester Two Preview!  »  Japan Is Doomed So Thursday saw me and sixty odd other brave students face the Japanese Language Exam. I’ll run through each part of it here then go onto other stuff. If you’re interested in learning Japanese at university one day this might be very useful...
16 Apr 08 visit Multimedia English Conversation  »  TEFLtastic If you feel like being shocked, amused, and/ or disgusted, have a little browse through what a search for “Eikaiwa” (”English conversation” in Japanese) on youtube brings up 
08 Nov 07 visit English lessons on youtube  »  TEFLtastic If you search “English lesson” on youbtube, there are a couple of British Council lessons and stuff you could look at. Quite frankly though, televisual English lessons are something much better left to the Japanese:
06 Sep 07 visit Japan explained- FAQs and SAQs Part 15  »  TEFLtastic Why do the Japanese get into a big flap about every “typhoon” that just blows the roof off a couple of sheds? First of all, don’t make the mistake of confusing the Japanese people and the Japanese media. Just because the news programmes...

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