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...
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