Comments on: Mixi Journals

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 22:42:09 +0000

Alice: You now have to have one. Sorry.

By: Alice

Alice — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 19:03:07 +0000

quite how do you register on mixi? i am always stumped by not having a japanese mobile….

By: Mike

Mike — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 15:37:40 +0000

Tori: Maybe one day!

By: Tori

Tori — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 15:30:58 +0000

hehehe. I like your intro to the post. I had never thought about Japanese people walking around with shirts written in funny Japanese.

You could (and really should) actually make these into shirts with zazzle.com
And then your friends can buy them :)

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 15:24:27 +0000

It’s a good one. There’s a few good textbooks out there too. ‘Minna No Nihongo’ is probably the most popular. I’ve never used it, but I hear people get great results. Couple that with Anki (check the video on my Youtube page for that) and you have success!

By: alice

alice — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 14:54:50 +0000

I hadn’t heard of that before, I will check it out. Thanks for the tip!

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 13:35:24 +0000

Alice: Things like Lang-8 are fantastically helpful for getting started once you’re writing sentences :)

By: alice

alice — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 13:05:08 +0000

Wow. Today I just began learning with あ-い-う-え-お, I feel a long way off from actually being able to write a sentence :)

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 08:16:04 +0000

Tom: I guess. Sounds like one of those lovely contextual problems. I’ll show my Japanese teacher tomorrow and she what she thinks. I guess 雨が降ってばかりいた would make sense though? ‘It did nothing but rain’ ?

By: Tom Clayson

Tom Clayson — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 07:49:19 +0000

雨しか降らなかった would indeed suggest that nothing but rain fell. Using ばかり says it rained more than you expected (and it was a lot) だけ　being neutral. So there is no reference to snow. Quite rare that it snows and rains at the same time though…