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Broadcasting to an audience of three (and a goldfish)...
Comment, ramblings and musings... life through the eyes of a Japanologist...
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Tuesday, August 20, 2002 |
 Moulin Rouge
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Pimms- why no lemonade?
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Mos, izumi
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Of course, coming back to work after a longish break means that there's
work to catch up on, but that's not it. There's email and internet too!
It's amazing how many homepages there are to check and read even after
such a little time away...!
This morning, I got an email from a
Japanese friend spending a year in New Zealand, which was a pleasant
surprise (the email, not the spending a year in NZ!), especially as I'd
been thinking that I really should contact him...
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Spent the morning working out what to do with the 11 junior high school
children who are coming to my mini English course from Thursday. Verbs
seem to be a common problem, but I wonder if it might not be asking for
trouble to launch straight into explanations of the present perfect and
so on, so I've decided to start with prepositions and conjunctions.
Apart from anything else, they seem a little more conducive to
sentence-making than straight explanations of verbs would be.
I'm
also going to run through the 'a'/'the' problem, and in addition get the
students to write some simple sentences, and do a little
Japanese-English translation, so I can see just where their problems
lie. Should be enough for day one...
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Had fun with baren and ryouzu this morning. As Iijima had
predicted, nobody could remember the words!
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Breakfast Show Staple Randomhaiku of the day (from The Genuine Haiku Generator)
placid kingdom bends
bloodshot ornate merciless
barmen scamper, dense
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Back to work today. It feels like I've been away for ages, but judging
from the one single kairan on my desk this morning, I've not
missed much during the three days of work I've been away.
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© Copyright 2003 Nathan Duckworth.
Updated: 8/1/03; 8:30:20 pm.
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