Before moving to Japan, I had all these ideas of things I wanted to do. I was going to sign up for cooking classes! I was going to sign up for language classes! I was going to get part time jobs! I was going to travel ( Read more... )

I am so far still keeping (more or less) up with my Japanese studies, and I'm having fun with it, which is the most important thing for me at the moment. I need these little side projects to function. I know fluency is something I'll need to work on, but I am focusing on just having fun with it for the moment ( Read more... )

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Anyone have any recommendations when it comes to electronic dictionaries? I have a very simple Casio Ex-word. It's good for looking up Japanese words I don't know, but not very good for looking up English words and getting suggestions for Japanese translations.


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... my ear thing is back D: wtf? I've never had trouble with my ears before and now I randomly seem to have developed an ear infection that won't go away? T_T Ffffff what bad timing for stuff like this to happen D ( Read more... )

No new Lie To Me episode today .__. laaame, I was looking forward to my weekly dose of the Lightman Lean xD ( Read more... )

Lurking about... <,<;;;;

I got reintroduced to JPHiP, and completely got over my "fear" of forums... so I've been spending all of my online time there, basically @_@ wow. DOESN'T MEAN I'M PLANNING ON LEAVING YOU GUYS, THOUGH. OMG NEVER, EVER ♥ ♥ I hope to be able to do a Japan diary during my vacation. Definitely want to chronicle our stay somehow ( Read more... )

Working on my third obligatory assignment~ This has been the most entertaining text so far, but I'm afraid it needs a lot of work. We're currently learning about theme, rheme, and cohesion, and it's all a bit greek to me, but I'll get there somehow. Anyway the challenge with this text is that it's a massive blob of text. The punctuation is ( Read more... )

First rough draft of my second obligatory translation assignment. It's looooong. It might also come across as a bit.. odd, but that's because we weren't asked to translate the full article, only its latter half. The full article can be read here (Norwegian).

"The attached article is from "ØYAVIS - lokalavis for Midsund". Imagine that you have been ( Read more... )

So sorry to keep spamming you with these things, but it's actually really helpful to me to have them stored here 8D;;;

Would love it if people could take a look at this, ahahha.

"The attached text is an extract from the introduction to a brochure about Aulestad, former home of the Norwegian writer Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, now a museum ( Read more... )