『犬に名前をつける日』(official website) is a "documentary drama" by director Akane YAMADA (山田あかね) that was released in Japan in 2015. It features Satomi KOBAYASHI (小林聡美) and Takaya KAMIKAWA (上川隆也). Akane YAMADA is a film director for the television. When her dog dies in 2010, her friend and mentor Nobuko SHIBUYA (渋谷昶子) suggests that Akane YAMADA should make..
Currently Reading: 『リカーシブル』by Honobu YONEZAWA
『リカーシブル』by Honobu YONEZAWA (米澤穂信) 『リカーシブル』by Honobu YONEZAWA (米澤穂信) is the last novel on my reading challenge list of 2018, and I want to read it before the end of the year. It took me two weeks to go through the first pages, though. I knew that to finish this book before December, 31st, I had..
Back to study!!
After two weeks away from Japanese, I now feel the urge to study again! The last two weeks, I was more interested in other hobbies, and I have left my Japanese studies almost untouched. This break has been a good thing since I now feel a new motivation to learn Japanese. So I will start..
Film review: 『すーちゃん まいちゃん さわ子さん』by Osamu MINORIKAWA
This is my review of the film 『すーちゃん まいちゃん さわ子さん directed by Osamu MINORIKAWA (御法川 修) and adapted from Miri MASUDA’s 4-koma series 『すーちゃん』.
Currently reading: 『探偵倶楽部』by Keigo HIGASHINO
I still have three books to read this year to complete my 2018 reading challenge and 『探偵倶楽部』(たんていくらぶ) is one of them. It is a collection of five short stories, featuring the mysterious "Membership Detective Club". I already read the first two short stories and I plan to read the third one in November. The membership..
Taking a break… but not completely!
I have already mentioned it on Friday, but I am not studying at the moment. This does not mean, however, that I am doing nothing in Japanese! I think it is necessary to stay in touch with your target language on a daily basis. If you don't want to or cannot study for a long..
Japanese Immersion: November week 1
This post will be short because I have done nothing interesting this week to study or get immersed in Japanese. I have only studied Anki and I have written a short text in Japanese every day (a little more than the half of an A6 page). I would like to say that I have been..
Book Review: 『コンビニ人間』by Sayaka Murata
"人間はさー、仕事か、家族か、どちらかで社会に所属するのが義務なんだよ。" (p66) In a society that constantly throws this kind of reminder to your face, how are you supposed to find your place when, at 36, you have neither one nor the other? Through the story of its protagonist Keiko FURUKURA,『コンビニ人間』describes the struggles of those who are "not normal" and won't fit in the society..
How to start writing in Japanese
One of my goals for November is to write in Japanese every day for a month. I have been thinking about how to write in a foreign language if you don't have a native to correct you, and I thought that I would write about it today. If you are like me, writing is not..
Japanese Immersion: October week 5
As I mentioned on Monday, I have finished watching the 10 episodes drama 『シグナル 長期未解決事件捜査班』and I have started a new one this week! I also continued reading the political magazine Sapio. Japanese drama シグナル: final thoughts I have watched maybe 4 or 5 Korean drama entirely in my life and started dozens of them without..
Book Review: 『日本語びいき』by Yumi Shimizu
Illustrations by ヨシタケシンスケ 『日本語びいき』 is definitely one of my best books of the year! The author, Yumi Shimizu (清水由美), is teaching Japanese to foreign students and wrote this book for her fellow native Japanese speakers. Through 21 short chapters, she invites her reader to rediscover the Japanese language and let oneself be amazed by patterns..
Monthly Review: October 2018
October has been a month for discovering new paths: I have started studying Japanese history and I have watched my very first Japanese drama. The two books I had ordered about Japanese History have finally arrived, but before that, I had started reading as many things as possible on the Internet. I am taking notes..