明日今日より笑顔になれる君がいるだけでそう思えるから。

:)

Somehow, when I wasn't looking, Japanese got easy. How'd that happen ( Read more... )

Stolen from Aguro, here's a (hopefully) complete list of the kanji you need to learn to take the Japanese Language Proficiency Test.

Lots of kanji in the very high levels are pathetically useless, but for some reason 誰 (who) is on level 1, despite the fact that you use it all the time. I don't really get it, but I don't write the test.

List of ( Read more... )

君の笑顔が一番好きなんだ　君の笑顔がみんなを幸せにする ( Read more... )

抱きしめてもっと強く
暖かな胸を信じるよ

also:

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statements of purpose are the fucking devil.

this week = intermediate stress management. I spent 12 hours on friday shooting this goddamn film, and I'm gonna do it all again today, and there's no way I'm gonna get all my projects done for tomorrow, though I asked Hanabusa-sensei for an extension on the speech recording.

Quote of the Day: "If I put pants on, do you want to get drunk?"

That question makes me want to be already drunk.

それに対して、「どこで酔っ払える？もう午前三時半だよ！」って言いた。どこでも飲めないから、今晩全然お酒を飲まないんだ。仕方がない。

Buuuuut, WE WON! We won we won we won! And USC lost to Stanford, of all people! What a glorious day for upsets!

貴方へ繋がる大地に生まれてよかった〜

今日授業で色々なくだけた言い方を習った。たとえば「〜なきゃ」や「〜なくちゃ」や「〜ちゃう」という言葉の使い方を教えて下さった。それから、くだけた会話が上手に成らればいいの。I usually do try to not be high-strung about most things, but I suppose spectacularly awful verbal performances in a foreign language is something that completely flusters me ( Read more... )

Kanji for the Visual / Spatial Learner

( Myers Briggs is still pretty interesting... )

寝られない
この遅く夜
多くに成る
もう早かったのは
朝に無く成った。

The Japanese waka is the early precursor to the popular and well-known haiku: like the haiku it uses the 5-7-5 syllabic pattern for the first three lines, however unlike the haiku it has subsequent lines depending on the poem's subcategory: the chouka, which ended up being very long poems, used a 5-7-5-7-5 etc. ( Read more... )

Just ignore, unless you dearly badly want a translation of me practicing a bit for the test...

( 時々日本語がきらいだよ )