It's been almost a week since Christmas ended and today is new years eve but did you know that there are other holidays other than Christmas that are celebrated through out the world?
For example if you are Jewish instead of celebrating Christmas you celebrate Hanuka and if you are African American you celebrate Kwanzaa.
Hanuka:also known as the Festival of Lights, is an eight-day Jewish holiday commemorating the rededication of the Holy Temple in Jerusalem at the time of the Maccabean Revolt of the 2nd century BCE. Hanukkah is observed for eight nights, starting on the 25th day of Kislev according to the Hebrew calendar, which may occur at any time from late November to late December in the Gregorian calendar(from wikipedia)
Kwanzaa: weeklong celebration held in the United States honoring universal African heritage and culture, marked by participants lighting a kinara (candle holder).[1] It is observed from December 26 to January 1 each year.
Kwanzaa consists of seven days of celebration, featuring activities such as candle-lighting and libations, and culminating in a feast and gift giving.
(from wikipedia)
You don't really see a bunch of Hanuka specials or Kwanzaa specials in movies but we do have those specials usually on TV shows.
Here's one of my old TV shows which shows Shia LaBeouf (He's the "hero" in the Transformer movies)
It called EVEN SEVENS and I hope you enjoy it and learn a bit about Hanuka :D
*no subtitles
2009年12月31日木曜日
2009年12月22日火曜日
thank you for listening
"Thank you for your listening" every Japanese says this after their presentation.
It's suppose to be "Thank you for listening"
I always wonder why people already thanks some one for listening to them when they already are.
Grammatically it's not wrong... and people will understand you but if you translate both literally it'll be....
"Thank you for your listening"=「あなたのご清聴あなたに感謝です」
"Thank you for listening"=「あなたのご清聴に感謝です」
with the word "Thank you" you are already thanking the person in that word. And just a note that "thank you" are two words.
So next time when you are presenting in english, try not to thanks the person twice for listening ;)
It's suppose to be "Thank you for listening"
I always wonder why people already thanks some one for listening to them when they already are.
Grammatically it's not wrong... and people will understand you but if you translate both literally it'll be....
"Thank you for your listening"=「あなたのご清聴あなたに感謝です」
"Thank you for listening"=「あなたのご清聴に感謝です」
with the word "Thank you" you are already thanking the person in that word. And just a note that "thank you" are two words.
So next time when you are presenting in english, try not to thanks the person twice for listening ;)
2009年12月20日日曜日
SAT vocab...
sorry for being absent for a while, I was busy with other stuff...
Any way today I'm going to talk about the SAT.
It's like the Japanese center exam, to get into college.
Except for, that you can take it many times as you want,the college will only see the highest score you recieved, and the test is about three hours long... JOY
To make it simple and clear, the SAT is a not so majorly hard exam. Except for the vocabulary.
There are many words in the text that you don't use in conversations. So if you think TOEIC or TOEFL is hard, dont make me laugh. But if you want to study abroad and want to improve your vocabulary, I reccomend you to take a look at.
Here are some sites that i once used...
http://www.freevocabulary.com/
http://www.satvocab.com/
http://www.testprepreview.com/sat_practice.htm
well hope you can learn something frome it!
Any way today I'm going to talk about the SAT.
It's like the Japanese center exam, to get into college.
Except for, that you can take it many times as you want,the college will only see the highest score you recieved, and the test is about three hours long... JOY
To make it simple and clear, the SAT is a not so majorly hard exam. Except for the vocabulary.
There are many words in the text that you don't use in conversations. So if you think TOEIC or TOEFL is hard, dont make me laugh. But if you want to study abroad and want to improve your vocabulary, I reccomend you to take a look at.
Here are some sites that i once used...
http://www.freevocabulary.com/
http://www.satvocab.com/
http://www.testprepreview.com/sat_practice.htm
well hope you can learn something frome it!
2009年12月11日金曜日
mixi's eigozuke
It's not my first time trying this but I can not believe that I was only able to answer 5 questions of mixi's eigozuke.
My excuse is that I couldn't read the correct kanji xb
but I really don't care as long as I am able to understand the meaning.
the second time i was able to score 10more than my first score but it's frustrating that I can't go higher...urg...
third time... yay up to 65!! :D
i messed up on punctually xb which means 時間制限
well one of my friends got over 90 right so i really need to beat his score lol
and wow probably this log is actually one of my shortest one...
Japanese/Enligsh translating and dictionary sites
I know that we went over this site, space alc about thousand times
but like Dr.Kaya I strongly recommend this site.
Other than studying vocab, English phrases, etc...
I think this site is one of the best Japanese English dictionary site that is actually accurate!
I was very impressed when it had the translation for 「お茶をたてる」＝preparing tea...well if you think about it, it is...but I had no idea so what I am trying to say here is, this site have a good translation of "polite" Japanese.
Other than space alc I use to use excite translating site, it's not perfect but still its good :)
2009年12月7日月曜日
Restaurants
Did you know that Restaurants in the U.S. you are able bring back food you weren't able to finish??
Well you can, so you don't have to worry about not being able to finish your food because it's too much.
Other than that the difference of Japanese and American restaurants are, most times the waiters introduce them selves before serving you. When paying you tip them by how well they served you. And the tip goes to your salary so it's actually a really good deal :)
But unlike restaurants in Japan I think it's a good way to learn about service, since you get to talk more to the costumers and actually interact with them, also it's a good way to learn more about society.
Plus if you think the waiter/waitress is cute, you get to know their name with out reading their name tag so thats a plus lololol
Well you can, so you don't have to worry about not being able to finish your food because it's too much.
Other than that the difference of Japanese and American restaurants are, most times the waiters introduce them selves before serving you. When paying you tip them by how well they served you. And the tip goes to your salary so it's actually a really good deal :)
But unlike restaurants in Japan I think it's a good way to learn about service, since you get to talk more to the costumers and actually interact with them, also it's a good way to learn more about society.
Plus if you think the waiter/waitress is cute, you get to know their name with out reading their name tag so thats a plus lololol
type of people at school
In Japan we have the gals gal-o, otaku, goths, etc..
In the U.S. it's called differently so I'm going to list some of them today.
Preps-what you describe as the gals and stuff. Usually too perfects guys who acts like an ass hole goes in this category.
Nerds-Otakus lol/you don't really have to explain anything but they know a bit about Japanese culture and they are usually smart so if you don't know something they can teach ya stuff even though they act wierd sometimes lololol
Emo-Some what like goths but only darker
Goths-Just like dark clothes and dark stuff only their personalities can be really friendly
Gangsters-not really gangsters just act that way, basically the Japanese furyou
Asians/Hispanic and black-not because they are the same race and stuff, they all hang around in one spot and stick togeher like glue...
Jocks-typical guy who's doing sports usually football or basketball
Loner-the one who hangs around all by them self.
Well I think that pretty much explains some characteristics. And some of the teachers can act as above and some could be gay if they are in the art department Xb
In the U.S. it's called differently so I'm going to list some of them today.
Preps-what you describe as the gals and stuff. Usually too perfects guys who acts like an ass hole goes in this category.
Nerds-Otakus lol/you don't really have to explain anything but they know a bit about Japanese culture and they are usually smart so if you don't know something they can teach ya stuff even though they act wierd sometimes lololol
Emo-Some what like goths but only darker
Goths-Just like dark clothes and dark stuff only their personalities can be really friendly
Gangsters-not really gangsters just act that way, basically the Japanese furyou
Asians/Hispanic and black-not because they are the same race and stuff, they all hang around in one spot and stick togeher like glue...
Jocks-typical guy who's doing sports usually football or basketball
Loner-the one who hangs around all by them self.
Well I think that pretty much explains some characteristics. And some of the teachers can act as above and some could be gay if they are in the art department Xb
how to make a bibliography on word
Today in class we went over word and excel. Other than the stuff we were taught over class, did you know that you’re able to easily make a bibliography/参考文献over word?
Well it’s really easy and the teachers do accept it so let me show you some easy sites that shows you how.
We can look at Microsoft’s home page for that too though Xb
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word/HA100674921033.aspx
Also there is the e-how which Dr. Kaya showed us a while ago.
http://www.ehow.com/video_5538140_create-bibliography-microsoft-word.html
Also just for a easy how to do
1)go to sankou bunken
2)add the text or website you're using in "inyou-bunken-shinyu" tab
3)go to bunken mokuroku choose
4)and you're done!!
well just that :D
20more log journals to go...
Well it’s really easy and the teachers do accept it so let me show you some easy sites that shows you how.
We can look at Microsoft’s home page for that too though Xb
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word/HA100674921033.aspx
Also there is the e-how which Dr. Kaya showed us a while ago.
http://www.ehow.com/video_5538140_create-bibliography-microsoft-word.html
Also just for a easy how to do
1)go to sankou bunken
2)add the text or website you're using in "inyou-bunken-shinyu" tab
3)go to bunken mokuroku choose
4)and you're done!!
well just that :D
20more log journals to go...
2009年11月17日火曜日
youtube and other video sites
Last week we viewed youtube "educationally" so I decided to pick out some choices
that could be a bit helpful to be both educated and entertained ;)
And just a note I was gonna post this last week but I kinda ran out of time
and completely forgot about this so I'm posting this today.
Anyway... like dr. kaya said last week, you can watch tons of videos like...
Obama's speech, how to do's in english, animes that has subtitles and so on...
But a lot of anime videos on youtube get deleted for illegal copyright...
which is sometimes a bummer so i reccomend http://www.watchanimeon.com/
there are tons of anime you can watch and i think its a good site for people who are majorly in anime ;)
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raw-japanese no subtitles
subbed-with subtitles
dub-everything is in english
and for people who wants to watch english cartoons like simpsons
or shows heres some sites the "I" reccomend
south park studios (rated for 16 above....i mean it...)
http://www.southparkstudios.com/
favorite tv shows (latest seasons of gossip girl, house, heros, etc...)
http://tvshowmania.blogspot.com/
simpsons (only able to be watched in the u.s. so if you're over there try it :))
http://www.thesimpsons.com/
well enjoy and hope your interest into english culture increase!
that could be a bit helpful to be both educated and entertained ;)
And just a note I was gonna post this last week but I kinda ran out of time
and completely forgot about this so I'm posting this today.
Anyway... like dr. kaya said last week, you can watch tons of videos like...
Obama's speech, how to do's in english, animes that has subtitles and so on...
But a lot of anime videos on youtube get deleted for illegal copyright...
which is sometimes a bummer so i reccomend http://www.watchanimeon.com/
there are tons of anime you can watch and i think its a good site for people who are majorly in anime ;)
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raw-japanese no subtitles
subbed-with subtitles
dub-everything is in english
and for people who wants to watch english cartoons like simpsons
or shows heres some sites the "I" reccomend
south park studios (rated for 16 above....i mean it...)
http://www.southparkstudios.com/
favorite tv shows (latest seasons of gossip girl, house, heros, etc...)
http://tvshowmania.blogspot.com/
simpsons (only able to be watched in the u.s. so if you're over there try it :))
http://www.thesimpsons.com/
well enjoy and hope your interest into english culture increase!
2009年11月9日月曜日
pbs kids
Today I will be showing about PBS kids!
And just a note I thought I posted this post last week but it wasn't and half of the stuff that I wrote about was deleted so I am going to explain again...ORZ
Any way... pbs kids is from the site "pbs", which Dr.Kaya showed us in class.
It's a site mainly for kids but I think its another fun way to learn enlgish :D
The main cartoons shown on pbs are Barney, Sesame Street, Arthur...and they were being shown since I was little.
Even though this site is aimed for kids, I think it is a great way to learn english for people who just started to learn :D
Sesame Street is a show for children from 3-5, its like the NHK show "Eigo de asobo".
Charcters like Elmo, Big bird, Cookie Monsters gives out tons of examples of words that is used with the letter and it changes every week!
PBS kids shows a movie of Sesame Street for free and has many educational games.
But the games are mostly aimed for 3-6year olds so I kind of reccomend the games for people who are patient ^^;
Today's song:
2009年11月2日月曜日
About facebook (educationally)
Okay enough fooling around and lets start focusing about "english"
....
Today's topic I am going to introduce is "facebook"
The reason why is because it's a great way to make friends from all around the world
and mainly a bunch of people from english-speaking countries are using it! :D
Also it like an english version of "mixi" so it's really fun for us college girls lol
Any way you're able to start out in japanese and join groups about what you like
and from there you can find many people who has the same hobby as you!
Or you can find friends that you once met out of Japan!!
Well I hope that my introduction to facebook helps out!
Oh and another reason why I reccomend facebook is...
-If you find friends from another couuntry it focuses you to try to communicate with them
-Because you want to find out more about your friends your reading skills will improve by reading there comments or profiles!
-You can chat real time with your friends across the sea
-You can learn slang (lol)
-If you become really good friends you can get them to help you with your english homework (lol)
Just becareful with some people who looks suspiscious!! ><;
and don't give too much profile about your self like this blog!
Today's song*
2009年10月26日月曜日
When I wake up I'm standing in a strange place and I just don't know where I am
Well Yesterday we had a game against Tokyo University.
BUT they say they would cancel the game if it was raining...
and it was a bit pouring but they decided to continue...
I really don't want to curse here so I'll say it nice.
ARE THEY CRAZY?! What are they thinking? I mean what are you suppose to do if one of my players or worst their players catch a cold!?!!!
Hopefully no one did except for me...but its not that bad just a few coughs and sneezes
well other than that I'm right now on a new diary hunt but I can't find the one that I like
and I'm kinda picky about that lol
I don't have any reasons why, but lately I'm addicted to the new PS game
Bayonetta's theme song something missing by miChi >v<
enjoy!
BUT they say they would cancel the game if it was raining...
and it was a bit pouring but they decided to continue...
I really don't want to curse here so I'll say it nice.
ARE THEY CRAZY?! What are they thinking? I mean what are you suppose to do if one of my players or worst their players catch a cold!?!!!
Hopefully no one did except for me...but its not that bad just a few coughs and sneezes
well other than that I'm right now on a new diary hunt but I can't find the one that I like
and I'm kinda picky about that lol
I don't have any reasons why, but lately I'm addicted to the new PS game
Bayonetta's theme song something missing by miChi >v<
enjoy!
2009年10月19日月曜日
Shopping for labels.. shopping for love Manolo and Louis.. its all Im thinking of
I have no idea why but right now I have the erge of wanting to watch "SEX and the CITY movie" Xb
It's probably because of the song that I was listening to though... lololol
Any way I'm soooo glad that the yawaragi festival is over!!!
Now I don't have to worry about tea ceremony club for a while<3 >v<
but at the same time I need to worry about the "irekae-sen" for lacrosse..
why did Keio needed to win.... but that's through already so can't really complain any more Xb
I'm kinda starting to nag here so let me tell you about what I did during the Yawaragi festival!
The first day of Yawaragi the Sophomores were up bat performing the ceremony
in the "ryu-rei" style which you don't have to seiza and just sit in a chair lol
Well while every one was preparing the tea I was late since I had a game before Xb
and I completely forgot the names of the tools...I guess...well I forgot the name of it and I completely made a fool out of my self...
But while I was preparing the tea I almost forgot some of the parts but my friend
Yukako helped me out a bit so I think that pretty well went fine^^;
The second day of Yawaragi I GOT TO SEE SAKANA-KUN!!!
Since are room was in the nigo-kan's third floor we were right across
the symposium he was going to lecture :D
Other than that I'm glad that the Junior's perfomance went well
and us lower-classman hopefully did a good job helping out with preparing tea in the back room, working in the front, and working in the cloak.
Today we're going to party so I'm really excited about that! :D
now please enjoy listing to Fergie's Lables or Love
It's probably because of the song that I was listening to though... lololol
Any way I'm soooo glad that the yawaragi festival is over!!!
Now I don't have to worry about tea ceremony club for a while<3 >v<
but at the same time I need to worry about the "irekae-sen" for lacrosse..
why did Keio needed to win.... but that's through already so can't really complain any more Xb
I'm kinda starting to nag here so let me tell you about what I did during the Yawaragi festival!
The first day of Yawaragi the Sophomores were up bat performing the ceremony
in the "ryu-rei" style which you don't have to seiza and just sit in a chair lol
Well while every one was preparing the tea I was late since I had a game before Xb
and I completely forgot the names of the tools...I guess...well I forgot the name of it and I completely made a fool out of my self...
But while I was preparing the tea I almost forgot some of the parts but my friend
Yukako helped me out a bit so I think that pretty well went fine^^;
The second day of Yawaragi I GOT TO SEE SAKANA-KUN!!!
Since are room was in the nigo-kan's third floor we were right across
the symposium he was going to lecture :D
Other than that I'm glad that the Junior's perfomance went well
and us lower-classman hopefully did a good job helping out with preparing tea in the back room, working in the front, and working in the cloak.
Today we're going to party so I'm really excited about that! :D
now please enjoy listing to Fergie's Lables or Love
2009年10月12日月曜日
Turn the lights off in this place And she shines just like a star
Yesterday I went to tokyo jyoshi university to play against and have a
combinded practice with a club team named Mistral.
Mistral is a club team that's made up of employers of different organizations.
They were really strong, even though we lost a match still it became a good learning.
Other than that my week really did start off on the wrong foot but after the hurricane past by,
I think it took my bad carma with it and actually it's been a really good start this week :)
Today's bgm:
ne-yo
closer
combinded practice with a club team named Mistral.
Mistral is a club team that's made up of employers of different organizations.
They were really strong, even though we lost a match still it became a good learning.
Other than that my week really did start off on the wrong foot but after the hurricane past by,
I think it took my bad carma with it and actually it's been a really good start this week :)
Today's bgm:
ne-yo
closer
2009年10月7日水曜日
mr. raindrops falling away from me now
It's raining it's poring the old man is snoring he bumped his head and uh.... never mind. It's an old nursery song that I learned when I was in kindergarten. Other nursery songs that are famous are...
Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
Baa baa black sheep
Jack and Jill
Hokey Pokey
I'm a little tea pot
Clean up song
Old Mcdonald
The itsy bitsy spider
ETC
And did you know that the alphabet song has the same melody as twinkle twinkle little star?
Any way my favorite songs from above are the hokey pokey and I'm a little tea pot, since both of them have a little dance.
I had fun doing it as a kid ^^
Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
Baa baa black sheep
Jack and Jill
Hokey Pokey
I'm a little tea pot
Clean up song
Old Mcdonald
The itsy bitsy spider
ETC
And did you know that the alphabet song has the same melody as twinkle twinkle little star?
Any way my favorite songs from above are the hokey pokey and I'm a little tea pot, since both of them have a little dance.
I had fun doing it as a kid ^^
2009年10月5日月曜日
My English Learning
-English learning in the past
Born in the United states went to school from preschool to college (for about a semester)
went to kumon and studied english skills from 4 to probably around 9.
Took a speech course during class from first grade to third.
And had an english tutor since 5. (I HATE GRAMMER)
-My English skills
Toefl ibt-aroud 92-5
High school deploma
-My goals in 3-4months
My goals are to...
=Write better in first person.
=Im kinda forgetting how to spell because of being in Japan too long lol
and thanks to a simple device called "spell check" by microsoft word so
to improve my spelling and if i do mistake look it up in the dictionary.
=Atleast write about my stuff once or twice a week
=Dont be late to class xb
Born in the United states went to school from preschool to college (for about a semester)
went to kumon and studied english skills from 4 to probably around 9.
Took a speech course during class from first grade to third.
And had an english tutor since 5. (I HATE GRAMMER)
-My English skills
Toefl ibt-aroud 92-5
High school deploma
-My goals in 3-4months
My goals are to...
=Write better in first person.
=Im kinda forgetting how to spell because of being in Japan too long lol
and thanks to a simple device called "spell check" by microsoft word so
to improve my spelling and if i do mistake look it up in the dictionary.
=Atleast write about my stuff once or twice a week
=Dont be late to class xb
listen as your day unfolds...
Okay this is probably my first time actually writing a blog in english xb
excluding mixi nd face book lololol
oh and lol means (warai) in japanese >v<
Any way...yesterday my lacrosse team had a game against tokai university at
kasai rinkai kouen but unfortunately we lost 8-10...
and we were soooo close to winning !! URGGGGG
This morning I kinda had a stomachache so I was late to my 1pm class which kinds of sucks
and I thought my law class was supposed be canceled today but when I arrived to school
looking at the class is canceld board it was supposed be canceld next week so
basically what I'm trying to say here is that my week started off on the wrong foot so
I hope it gets better through out... Xb
title from des'ree "you gotta be"
Youtube: version Michi
excluding mixi nd face book lololol
oh and lol means (warai) in japanese >v<
Any way...yesterday my lacrosse team had a game against tokai university at
kasai rinkai kouen but unfortunately we lost 8-10...
and we were soooo close to winning !! URGGGGG
This morning I kinda had a stomachache so I was late to my 1pm class which kinds of sucks
and I thought my law class was supposed be canceled today but when I arrived to school
looking at the class is canceld board it was supposed be canceld next week so
basically what I'm trying to say here is that my week started off on the wrong foot so
I hope it gets better through out... Xb
title from des'ree "you gotta be"
Youtube: version Michi
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