A little place for learning languages
By peter on May 20, 2008 in Spanish | 8 Comments
I was on the phone with my friend Patrick, who has been my friend for about 12 years, and one of the things we discussed was our study of Spanish. Patrick has gone a little further than I have and I found his description of his study habits interesting. He doesn’t use an SRS program […]
By thomas on May 12, 2008 in Site News | 0 Comments
In case you haven’t noticed already, I added some new ad spaces in the right sidebar. Both are 125×125 spots and can be had for pennies. You don’t have to purchase them for a whole month either - you can grab the ad space for one day if you want to. If […]
By thomas on May 9, 2008 in Japanese | 11 Comments
Warning: This post may not be suitable for adults.
Today’s Word Of The Day is うんち (unchi). That’s Japanese for poop.
Last weekend, my wife and I went to the Confectionary Exposition in Himeji, and on the way back to the car we saw this sign:
Here is what the sign says:
Everybody come and play! Come […]
By peter on May 6, 2008 in Spanish | 4 Comments
I recently purchased a book called Spanish Verbs And Essentials of Grammar to strengthen my understanding of Spanish grammar and conjugation. I didn’t feel I was getting enough of this from my existing study materials. It’s funny how some themes seem to occur at the same time. On Friday, Ramses at Spanish Only posted […]
By thomas on May 5, 2008 in Japanese | 8 Comments
Today (May 5th) is Children’s Day in Japan, and that means today’s Word of the Day is 鯉幟 (koinobori). 鯉 (koi) means “carp” and 幟 (nobori) means something like “flag”, so 鯉幟 (koinobori) translates into English as “carp streamer“.
Japanese families (who have boys) put these carp streamers up to celebrate boys. My wife and […]
