Here are yet more sentences from/inspired by buying clothes. Also, here are pictures of the tags. Sorry about the resolution, I know these are about as clear as Loch Ness monster photos. Anyway, we’ll take care of it in a later sentence pack. Q: (税込) ￥1000 A: ぜい・こみ せん えん (Tax included) thousend yen ■If you put…
Sentence Starter Pack 4
by khatzumoto
Japan, as you might guess, is a bit of a hotbed of the Japanese language. The natural environment is ripe for sentence-mining. With that in mind, I’ve been taking pictures and collecting random everyday objects (advertisements, cereal boxes), with Japanese in them, to use for sentence-learning. You can do this outside of Japan, too, if…
Dick and Jane, Episode 11
by khatzumoto
Wow! Laziness is hard work! As you know, I’ve been tweaking with ways both to create and display Dick and Jane more efficiently…mostly creation really. Anyway, here’s Dick and Jane in the new, shorter format. And now the text is vertical, for added Japanese realness! The excitement is killer, so try to keep your knickers…
Sentence Starter Pack 3
by khatzumoto
Sorry for the 1-day delay! Here’s another list of sentences based on the second word in the Yale Anime Society List: 愛 (あい, love). Let me know whether or not you like this arrangement. If you do, I’ll just go through and make sentences for all 100 words in the list, that way you’ll get…
Sentence Pack 2
by khatzumoto
This second sentence pack is even closer to the way I learn sentences than the previous one, in that it focuses on one word, and contains several sentences using that word, plus some sentences that are tangentially related. So, the word for this sentence pack is 危ない（あぶない）, which is the first word on the Yale…
Sentence Starter Pack 1
by khatzumoto
So I was sitting there, thinking…”it’s pretty mean to tell people to go find sentences and not even throw them a freaking bone”. So here it is, a few sentences to get you started, or, if you are started, to help you along the way. They’re based on Yale Anime Society’s list of the 100…