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2 Jan 2025 1 minute read 0 comments cryotosensei
After teaching my son 人山人海, I thought I would focus on idioms that contain numbers because my son can more or less recognise the Chinese characters denoting numbers. When I saw this character-themed stroller at the neighbourhood cart, I immedi...
27 Dec 2024 1 minute read 0 comments kubo kazuya
Boss: "You need to finish the documents by today, meow." Employee: "I didn't hear that, meow. I have personal matters, so I'm going home, meow. Please let me know in advance next time, meow." Boss: "It's common sense to finish this amount of work by...
27 Dec 2024 1 minute read 1 comment kubo kazuya
This might not be very familiar overseas, meow. Not just "nya" and "wan," but in Japan, there are dialects with distinctive endings, meow. For example, in Kansai dialect, you have "nen" and "yan," and in Hakata dialect, you have "to?" and "bai," meo...
22 Dec 2024 1 minute read 0 comments cryotosensei
I was at McDonald’s yesterday and came across おすすめ in its menu. Just what is おすすめ? It means ‘recommendation’. I was a good boy and followed McDonald’s おすすめ. I got myself a Strawberry Frappe. It warmed my heart during the cold winter e...
22 Dec 2024 1 minute read 0 comments cryotosensei
Sensei is committed to ensuring that you enjoy your trip in Japan. I think that there are certain things that you need to be able to recognise to derive the maximum utility from the fabulous products and services. 無料 (むりょ) means “free”. Once y...
21 Dec 2024 1 minute read 1 comment cryotosensei
The inspiration for today’s lesson came from Anpanman Children’s Museum. I was walking up the stairs when I saw the phrase 一歩一歩 (ippo ippo). It’s a very versatile phrase because you can use it with Chinese people and they will get what you mean...
20 Oct 2024 4 minute read 0 comments cryotosensei
Anyone who has learnt Japanese before will tell you that it is a hard language to crack. It comprises three writing systems - Hiragana, Katakana and Kanji - that you must learn in order to read Japanese. Not only that, its Kanji characters have two k...
5 Oct 2024 3 minute read 0 comments cryotosensei
So, I have been tasked to design an immersion lesson for the kiddos in my school after their exams. Here are the details: four classes one-hour lesson As you can infer, engaging and entertaining 100 kids for 60 minutes will turn out to be a recipe...
17 Jun 2022 1 minute read 0 comments BB7fan
Marimo balls are a rare curiosity. In Japan, the Ainu people hold a three-day marimo festival every October at Lake Akan. Legend has it that long ago the daughter of a chief from a tribe living near Lake Akan in Japan fell in love with a commoner....
3 Nov 2021 1 minute read 1 comment Crazy kappa
Over the weekend I didn't practice any Japanese. Although it isn't the end of the world it is still disheartening especially since I had the opportunity but didn't capitalize on it. I was busy playing a blockchain game called Gods Unchained (somethin...
