JLPT1 is but a month away! Cue stressing out and breakdown. Luckily, the great spaced-repetition program Anki is here to help! Basically, you create cards which (for Japanese) have word, reading and meaning boxes. You add anything you want, from a single kanji to a complex sentence, Anki generates the reading (with a little help [...]

Filed under: English, Uncategorised on October 31st, 2008 | No Comments » | Trackback

It’s Autumn and yesterday we had the Japanese Society-East Asian Society annual Halloween party. I had been thinking of dressing up as Jack Skellington, but the price of pin-stripe suits and copious amounts of white make-up required for a full-body purge put me off. Instead, I opted for a last-minute Battle Royale tribute, since I [...]

Filed under: English, Japan, Japan-eng on October 29th, 2008 | No Comments » | Trackback

お久しぶり！最近日本語能力試験の勉強に励むはずだけど、なんとなくウエブサイトの管理することになってしまった・・・orz　だけど、いよいよ「knowing nothing」の本当の日本語版が完成しそう！以前、日の丸の旗を押したら、日本語のみの投稿が出たんだけど、サイト全体は普通の英語版のままだった。でもそれがもう終わり！これから旗にクリックしたらサイト全体が変わるんだ！
まだ管理中で、完全に完成できていないけど、そろそろかな。今だと日の丸の旗を押しても、サイト全体が変わるけど日本語のみの投稿は出てこない。もう一つクリックしないといけない。それを一つだけのクリックにしたいと思う。それに、「アバウト」のページ(このサイトについて）や、「404」のページなども、日本語で書き直していない。エッセイと試験の勉強で忙しいけど、いつか近い将来に完成すると思う。ただ前の同じように、時間と面倒のことで特別な記事以外、日英の翻訳はしない。これはたぶん一生のことだと思う（そんな余裕がないんだもん！）ご理解お願いします。

Filed under: Website, ウエブサイト, 日本, 日本語 on October 19th, 2008 | 1 Comment » | Trackback

I don’t quite know what hit me, but I was suddenly overwhlemed with the urge to re-design my website a couple of days ago. I’ve been busy with Photoshop and enduring headaches over niggling coding issues, but finally it’s done. It’s just as well too, as I haven’t the time to be making websites, what [...]

Filed under: English, Website on October 15th, 2008 | No Comments » | Trackback

Finally, at long last! I made it to the green island of Yakushima, tucked snugly away below Kyushu in the South of Japan. It’s a chunk of land covered mostly in sugi (cedar) trees, and awesomely huge ones at that, with sage-old weathered limbs gnarled and warped bearing thickets of leaves, all the way up [...]

Filed under: English, Japan, Japan-eng, Photography on October 5th, 2008 | No Comments » | Trackback