When I went to the library on Sunday, Ranmafan had just posted about the Murakami novel that he was reading, and for years Naftali has highly recommended Murakami’s work. So at the library, I got a copy of The Elephant Vanishes in Japanese.
I’ve read maybe 6 or 7 pages of the story “眠り/ Sleep” so far. [...]
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象の消滅 – The Elephant Vanishes
Boil em, mash em, stick em in a stew!
A funny thing happened today at the post office. I went to mail a couple of Christmas packages to America when I noticed there was a tv crew there. Well after spending ten minutes mailing and talking in Japanese I go to leave. Well the tv crew had moved to a table in the front [...]
Norwegian Wood – AKA yes I do read novels
The other day I was at work reading the book “Dune” during my lunch break. One of the Japanese staff walked in with the biggest look of shock I’ve seen from her. She then said, “You are reading!?!?!? Not a comic book?!?!?!!” I always get that remark when people find out that I enjoy reading [...]
JLPT Preliminary Results
Copies of the JLPT (and the answers) have very quickly found there way online, so now I have a pretty good idea how I scored on the test. I wrote out my answers as best I could remember and scored the test. I’m right on the borderline There were a few problems where I didn’t [...]
One week away…
The JLPT test is one week away. This year I’m going to be taking the Level 2 test and I really need to study some more for it. However, I have an editing job that is due on Tuesday, so I probably won’t have too much time to study tonight or on Monday. My Anki [...]
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