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  Japan Trivia

DSCN0454.JPGAnother in the Kodansha Bilingual books series.

雑学 [ざつがく] ニッポン (zatusgaku nippon).

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Posted by sasqwach at July 10, 2008 4:58 PM | Permalink
 
  誤解される日本人 - The Inscrutable (misunderstood) Japanese

Thumbnail image for DSCN0453.JPGI came a across this book at Tokyo Maruzen just the other day while meeting up with a friend, and what a fantastic find !


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  Breaking Into Japanese Literature

DSCN0457.JPGWhen reaching beyond beginner level Japanese text books can be thin on the ground, this book by Giles Murray provides a perfect step stone from moving from textbooks to "real" books.


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Posted by sasqwach at April 22, 2008 5:45 PM | Permalink
 
  very good learning tool

I've been using this suite of software for about a year and I can't get over how cheap and useful it is.

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  words of the week 3月10日

A strange selection this week, I got mixed up with the usage of the word "deployment" for servers and was using it in a "military" context, instead of "normal" context, the difference is "haibi" and "haifu"....

This seemed to cause great hilarity amongst my co-workers for some reason!?

追いつく  おいつく to overtake, to catch up (with) まだたくさん仕事が残っている、週末に追いつくは必要と思う。

There's still lots of left over work to do,I think some catch up this weekend is necessary.
手配  てはい arranged, searched (by police)

サーバーはも手配されたから、これから始めれる。

As the servers been arranaged,you can start from now.

奉仕  ほうし attendance, service(s)

あの日予定がないから必要であれば奉仕を申し出る。

I dont have plans that day so if necessary I can offer my services.

配備  はいび deploy, deployment

部隊の配備が完了しました!

The troops have been deployed !

成果  せいか results, fruits

何回やっても成果が上がらない。むかつく!

No matter how many times I try theres no result. That pisses me off.

 
 
Posted by sasqwach at March 10, 2006 1:44 PM | Permalink
 
  日本語能力試験 - JLPT

I found out today I passed my Japanese Language Proficiency Test (JLPT) level 3. It's a once a year test of Japanese language ability

While this seems like an achievement learning 2 new alphabets and 300 kanji characters, it really only means I can read doraemon : A comic aimed at children between the ages of 7 and 10 in Japan, but in keeping with tradition as is a JLPT passing requirements I have to lord over like an obnoxious prick anyone who has a lower level than myself and bear a burning resentful hatred for anyone a level above me.

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Posted by sasqwach at March 1, 2006 5:14 PM | Permalink
 
  words of the week 2月24日

The week in words, some sample sentences from this week

物理   ぶつり physics

ゲームの開発を興味があった、でも物理に弱いからでけないかもしれない。

I was interested in doing some game development, but becuase Im no good at Physics I probably wouldnt be able to.

延滞  えんたい delay, procrastination

現在に1時間延滞がありますので、すぐに進捗の確認が出来ません。

At the moment as there is a one hour delay, I cannot confirm progress straight away.

説  おくせつ hypothesis, speculation, surmise

憶説を考えたら、3日以上かからないと思う。

If I was to speculate, I dont think it would take more than 3 days.

機具  きぐ (tools and) equipment

そのような機具見たことないです。

I've never seen that kind of equipment before.

予備  よび reserve, spare

印刷したレポート1枚を予備したよかったね

It's lucky I had 1 spare copy of the report isnt it !

 
 
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  words of the week 2月17日

I'm going to start putting up the "most used" words of the week;

i.e. the words I've had to lookup more than once and can't remember clearly for study purposes and future reference.

The format is KANJI - READING - ENGLISH - SAMPLE SENTENCE (Japanese then English)

They may not be 100% correct, but helps get your point across.

配列  はいれつ arrangement, array (programming) この配列の3番目の変数を表示したい、でも表示すると数値の内容が化けちゃいます。

I want to display the third variable of this Array, but when I display it the variable's contents are distorted.
間欠  かんけつ intermittence, intermittent バグを再現をしようとしと思うってなか出来ない見たい、具体的に問題は何かが分からないですが間欠そうです。

I thought I would try to reproduce that bug, but I cant seem to.I don't know definitely what the problem is, seems to be intermittent.
不活化  ふかつか inactivity 今サーバーはメール送るはずですが不活化,困る!。

The server should be sending mail just now, but it's inactive, that's troubling.
判明  はんめい establishing, proving, identifying, confirming 先言ったの間欠なバグについて、問題の元を判明した。メモリーが足りないのせいみたい。

About the bug you just mentioned,I've identified the problem, looks like not enough memory is the fault.
良性  りょうせい benign 彼が癌があると思ってたでも医者さんが良性と言った。

He thought he had cancer,but the doctor said its benign
 
 
Posted by sasqwach at February 17, 2006 5:44 PM | Permalink
 
  NHK Debut

















My 15 seconds of fame on NHK's evening news as a "and finally..." spot.
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Posted by sasqwach at August 15, 2004 3:13 PM | Permalink
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