By Donnie | Japan English
I was going back through some old pictures of mine and came across some funny, Japanese English gyms. For those who have been here for quite some time, you probably know quite well that you’re bound to bump into some silly English word or phrase. This is the reason I love smart phones so much. […]
This is a follow-up to my no, no, mo, he face post. After writing that article, one of my students, Kumiko, mentioned more that could be added to the hiragana face. I thought is was pretty cool, and then when I was buying a kanji practice notebook, I found that there were two other types […]
No? Well I have. Hachinoko, 蜂の子, are one of the unspoken delicacies of Japan. I tried hachinoko for the very first time while having dinner with my friend, Gareth, my student & friend Kyoko, and her family. We had already eaten our fill of the wonderful spread that she had prepared, so we had some […]
Japanese Ramune (日本のラムネ), Fun in a Bottle This week I tried Ramune for the very first time. I was watching this Japanese comedy over the weekend and there was this man who had to pretend to be afraid of everything. When he’d open the refrigerator…he’s scream, when he’d turn on the television…he’d scream and when […]
I bought this red, lantern flashlight from K’s Denki because I wanted to test it out when making a video. My little video experiment failed, unfortunately, but not before I noticed something interesting. The flashlight was battery-powered, so I need to go an buy some. I opened up the flashlight and took a look inside. […]