JAPAN | Monday, 8 Feb 2016 | Views [416]
During Japanese class on Tuesday, we continued the pattern that had been established by Friday’s class. That is to say with Yamaguchi-sensei we continued to review grammar and the reading, then with Suzuki-sensei we talked some more so we could ... Read more >
Tags: grammar, japanese, reading, spirituality
JAPAN | Thursday, 4 Feb 2016 | Views [428]
On Thursday we actually started Tobira. Which meant I finally had a good reason to be carrying around 800+ pages of Japanese textbooks. The rest of the week must have just been for strength building or something like that.
We’d all messed ... Read more >
Tags: ghosts, honorifics, japanese, spirituality
JAPAN | Sunday, 31 Jan 2016 | Views [515]
A key difference between English and Japanese come with how you change verbs. In English, you conjugate depending on subject, and then add extra words depending on things like tense or if it’s active or passive. So for instance:
I write a ... Read more >
Tags: causitive, grammar, japanese, meditation, passive, spirituality
