Hell is… Japanese counting systems
In Japanese there is a different counting system for just about everything. Whereas in English the numbers remain the same but the word for the object changes, in Japanese the words...
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English words in Japanese
Just been browsing a great PDF – the very un-snappily named “Japan’s Built-in Lexicon of English-based Loanwords” – which is about the history of how Japan came to have so many...
Read moreFollow-up: Staying in School
I forgot to say… As a follow-up to this post, I have been assigned a new host family in a place called Kachidoki; a mere two metro stops from where I...
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I’ve just extended college for another month, so will be here in Tokyo until the end of November. Unfortunately my existing homestay family can’t keep me as they have other commitments...
Read moreBak 2 skool
Going back to school is a challenging enough experience in itself, but doing so to learn an entirely new language with several new alphabets and a very different way of forming...
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