Ainu Woes

[hadji_hajek]

Amanda visited Tokyo last weekend!
On Friday I showed her my school and the area where I live and we ate huge Hawaiian hamburgers, and that night went to a small cafe that looked like someone's dining room owned by an old lady.  Saturday was huge.  We went to Ueno Park, seeing the Tokugawa family shrine and laughing at animals in the zoo.  Then we

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[brithla]

You know... I had that same confusion in my 3rd year class about Ainu. We`re discussing diversity and for the questions in their book, I asked them to tell me answers about Japan. When we got to ethnic groups the JTE had to explain the Ainu because the students barely knew anything. XD

[hadji_hajek]

Argh, they're not even officially classified as a native people of Japan yet, and outside of Hokkaido they get no benefits.

[pikushi]

Whoa, I didn`t know the boat ride was a surprise! Good job!! 10 points.

Does causative-passive ever come naturally? It`s a weird thought. If it does, I completely look forward to that day.

[hadji_hajek]

Well, you know, when your friend is forced into doing something and you want to talk about it..

Anyways, that should be 12 points, I think

[bluecollarmoxie]

i want to eat an ainu, they sound dericious

[hadji_hajek]

http://www.weirdasianews.com/images/036A.jpg

[bluecollarmoxie]

ew

[londonlaurel]

Many props for the awesome night out with Amanda. Sounds absolutely amazing... I bet it was great to see her.

[hadji_hajek]

It was! And we'll be doing a lot more seeing before this 7 months is up :)

[ltnoin]

I wonder how long it takes to get to the point where まさか and まぁ and 詰まり and just throwing out causative-passive like it's nobody's business all come quickly and naturally.

I often wonder the same thing!! It seems to take ages!!