I’m a huge fan of Sherlock Holmes in pretty much any incarnation, also manga, Japan and the Japanese language, so when I saw the manga adaptation of the first episode of the BBC Sherlock series on amazon, I had to have it, even if I can’t read most of it!

And naturally I have to ramble on about it and post some photos (end of post) as well.

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A while ago I came across “Haiga Illustrated Haiku Poems” on Amazon UK by Yukki Yaura and Suiyu Enomoto and bagged myself a good second-hand copy. I’ve only just had a chance to really have a proper look at it, and there are some lovely haiku ( Read more... )

“A Guide to Japanese Grammar: A Japanese approach to learning Japanese grammar” is out in paperback, based on Tae Kim’s website http://www.guidetojapanese.org/learn/

I’ve ordered it from Amazon UK, but if you want it from amazon.com pop over to the Guide to Japanese website and click on the book link near the top right of the page :)

Recently bought the Beautiful World tour DVD, singles Wild at Heart (ワイルドアットハート) and Face Down and the Arashi photo book Nippon no Arashi (ニッポンの嵐). I can’t actually read the book, but there are a lot of pictures and one day I’ll have a go at translating something… someday… it’s a goal to aspire to, that and my Deadlock books!
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Attempted translation again :)

Japanese Graded Reader, Level 0, Book 2, page 1

大豆
だいず
The Soya Bean

これは、大豆です。
日本人は、大豆をたくさん食べます。
中国。アメリカ。日本。ブラジル。
日本人は、昔から大豆をたくさん食べました。
今は、たくさんの大豆が、アメリカやブラジルや中国くからきます。

これは、だいずです。
にほんじんは、だいずをたくさんたべます。
ちゅうごく。あめりあ。にほん。ぶらじる
にほんじんは、むかしからだいずをたくさんたべました。
いまは、たくさんのだいずが、アメリカやブラジルやちゅうごくからきます。

These are soya beans.
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I’ve just finished ‘Murder in Style’ by Rex Stout (found it on Ebay), really good story. If you like detective stories I’d highly recommend The Nero Wolfe series and the two season TV series based on the novels/stories starring Maury Chaykin (Wolfe) and Timothy Hutton, who makes a great Archie.

I only have one Nero Wolfe book left to find to ( Read more... )

Another bad translation attempt! If anyone wants to correct it please do :)

I think the first two pages went okay, but 3-5 are iffy *lol*
Gosh, and this is a baby book, I'm doomed! ;)


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Way, way beyond my skill level, but as I can’t find the 3 novels in the series translated into English I thought I’d try and translate a few sentences of the yaoi novel 'Deadlock' [v. 1] by Aida Saki ( Read more... )