Sunday, March 04, 2007

Word of the day: 常識

Something I occasionally lack...

子供の時私はたくさんの常識がいたからクリスタルメィズ*をしたかった。

*イギリスで90年代の間にクリスタルメィズはとても人気番組でした - Crystal Maze

Anyways, you needed a lot of 常識 (じょう・しき common sense) to win!

Tuesday, February 27, 2007

Prison Break is killing the updates!

Yes, it's true. I started to watch the first series of Prison Break recently, and now I'm unable to spend any spare time doing anything else. In case you're wondering, I'm updating the vblog from work ;-)

Here's a couple of kanji for Tuesday afternoon:-


音読み:
訓読み:
TO CALL
ーーーーーーーーーーー
よ・ぶ
to call, to call out, to invite

~any others?

ーーーーーーーーーーー

音読みシュウ
訓読み:
END
ーーーーーーーーーーー
最終
さい・しゅう the end, final
終結
しゅう・けつ end, conclusion
就業時間
しゅう・ぎょう・じ・かん closing time
終点
しゅう・てん last stop, terminus
終列車
しゅう・れ・っしゃ last train

Wednesday, February 21, 2007

Getting back on track...

Just trying to get back in to the swing of things. Although it only takes 10 - 15 minutes a day to post a couple of kanji, for some reason I always seem to put it off, find some socks that need darning etc... I guess it 's just a case of getting off my ass getting on with it.

Also, I'm having some date/time problems with my feed coming into Outlook 2007. All posts have a date of 01/01/2007 and a time of 12:00, so if anyone has a similiar issue, please let me know.


音読み:
MIND, MEANING
ーーーーーーーーーー
意味
い・み
meaning

意見
い・けん
opinion

意外な
い・がい・な
unexpected, unforeseen, surprising

真意
しん’・い
true meaning

Word of the day:
平日 
へい・じつ weekday

Until next time, またね。

Wednesday, February 14, 2007

Japan photo's

Here's a shameless plug for my photo web album, kindly hosted by our friends at Google... http://picasaweb.google.com/johnieutah/ . Here, amongst other things, you'll find a load of pictures from my adventures in the land of rising sun.

Enjoy, Matt.




Tuesday, February 13, 2007

Kobe beef podcast is back

The beefmiester is back with his great show. Check it out at http://kobebeefshow.com/

Oh, and 2kanji will be back soon!

またね。

Friday, October 27, 2006

More vocab, no kanji

久しぶりですね!

最近新の単語を習った。。。

うそ
lie, falsehood

打つ う・つ
to hit, to strike

移す うつ・す
to film, to transcribe, to duplicate

腕 うで
arm, skill

うまい
skillful, delicious (I think only blokes can use this for delicious, or something...)

See you.

Thursday, October 19, 2006

Some more vocab for Thursday 19th October

All JLPT3...

あく 空く to become empty
あさねぼう 朝寝坊 to oversleep, late riser (a personal favourite!)
あやまる 誤る to apologise
あんしん 安心 relief, piece of mind
あんぜん 安全 safety, security