My dad sent these videos to me recently. The first video is of a 29 year old woman hearing for the first time, and the second video is of a baby hearing for the first time. Since I'm interested in deaf culture in Japan, I often wonder what it's like to not be able...
Today, I made a CD for the girl I babysit so that we can listen to Japanese together in the car. The CD contains episodes of Pokémon, Chi's Sweet Home, the theme song and trailer for My Neighbor Totoro and Domo's Rain Song. I can't seem to get this girl to study, so I...
Listening CDs Today was really great. I listened to the first of the two CDs I made during my commute. I haven't watched Teru Teru Ashita since high school and had forgotten what it was about. While listening, it came back gradually. I'm excited to keep listening and...
School starts Monday. In preparation, I got together my binders (including a Totoro themed one from Ghibli Museum for Japanese class), got my backpack ready and made two CDs to listen to on my long commute. As part of my effort to immerse myself in to a Japanese sign...
Back in 2010, I created a little guide on Ushi no Tane that's aim was to teach Japanese through the game Harvest Moon based on what knowledge I had of Japanese at the time. I would actually like to create more guides like this in the future, so I'm making a new tag for...
This week, I had the stomach bug, which lasted for about two days. So, another distraction from my challenge (-_-). But yesterday, I really got into my studies, and that continued into today. It makes me so happy to dive into studying like this. I felt really energized...
Today, while listening to music with my headphones on and in a deep focus on my studies, I noticed that when I turn around or see people come in my peripheral view, I'm startled. Maybe the music is too loud. It blocks out all the sound cues that let me know people are...
(download) Click here to download: bringing-in-new-nintendogs-and-cat-prvAzymxzEyuEgoDcroq.zip (40 KB) My precious Akari (dachshund), Yuna (siamese), and Fuu (shiba inu) have been replaced by some new nintendogs and...
So, still not much progress on my self-challenge for the winter. I was feeling too worn out from jet lag and then from my wisdom teeth surgery. In fact, I haven't actively studied Japanese at all since the new year began. Though, I have had opportunities to use a J-J...
