Since I started reading the news in Japanese, I am telling myself that I must learn Japan prefectures. I have finally taken the first step by doing my own map with furigana and English. Why learn Japan prefectures and region? I suppose that Japanese learners who studied Japanese at school or university have gone through..
Japanese News: April Week 3
I have decided to stop using the site NHK to write my post because the links get broken very soon. So this time, all the sources come from mainichi.jp. I focused more on politics this week. Demonstration against Abe On Saturday (14th), 30,000 demonstrators were protesting before the Diet building: 安倍政権退陣迫る 森友・加計問題で３万人. On the video, we can..
Book review: 『イノセント・デイズ』by Kazumasa Hayami
I have finished reading 「イノセント・デイズ」by 早見和真（はやみ・かずまさ） and loved this novel very much. I found the story interesting, I like the themes encompassed in it, and I appreciated the structure of the novel very much. Some themes of the novel The novel starts with what we call in French a "fait divers" (tragic events like criminal cases that..
One year blogging anniversary!
It is hard to believe, but on Wednesday (April 18th) this blog will be one-year-old! 😄 To celebrate, I want to write a post about how blogging helped me to learn Japanese. Positive energy First of all, I love my blog because it is mine, and I am sure that we all feel the same...
Japanese News: April week 2
A lot of things happened this week in Japan, and it is hard to catch up with everything! 🤯 In any case, these are the subjects that caught my attention, with a special part devoted to the labour reform at the end. I have also realised that the articles on NHK News web do not..
Korean resources: monthly listening magazine for Japanese
I always have doubts when I present Korean resources to learn Japanese because I don't know if they can be ordered overseas. I have no experience with it myself, but I think that buying Korean books is more complicated than buying Japanese books. But I hope that it will change someday and that it will..
About the books I gave up on
Today, I would like to talk about the Japanese books I bought or received and couldn't read because they were too difficult for me. When I first wanted to read books in Japanese, I bought mangas. The problem is that with exception from One Piece and Case closed that I love, I don't much enjoy reading..
Japanese News: April week1
I have been checking the news to in Japanese to give an overview of what happened this week (including last weekend). Of course, I may have overlooked important information and I hope that I understood well the articles I have read. I did my best! Let's have a look! (all sources from NHK News Web):..
Currently reading: 「朝鮮開国と日清戦争」by 渡辺惣樹
Some days ago, I saw this book piled up in a bookshop in Seoul: 「朝鮮開国と日清戦争 アメリカはなぜ日本を支持し、朝鮮を見限ったか」by 渡辺惣樹 (わたなべ・そうき) [caption id="attachment_12361" align="alignleft" width="205"] 「朝鮮開国と日清戦争」by 渡辺惣樹 (草思社文庫)[/caption] They have a decent selection of non-fiction books in Japanese, but not so much space that they would pile up a lot of titles. So naturally, my attention was drawn to this..
Monthly review: March 2018
I have decided to start a new category on my blog and write a monthly review at the end of the month to talk about how I have been studying Japanese and other things. Blog What is new on my blog is how I write my Friday post. Instead of studying a news article on..
Japanese News: March week 4
I feel more and more at ease with the new format of my "Japanese news" posts. I only focused on internal affairs: Anti-tobacco actions The city of Ikoma (Nara prefecture) has adopted a new regulation against tobacco: 喫煙後45分間 エレベーターの利用禁止 奈良 生駒 I think that the title is quite easy to understand if you know the word..
Currently reading:「イノセント・デイズ」by 早見和真
Time again to choose a book from my reading challenge list! I hesitated a long time before picking 「イノセント・デイズ」by 早見和真（はやみ・かずまさ） I would like to say a word about why I bought this book when I was in Kyoto last December. I didn't know what it was at the time, but I saw something like this: https://twitter.com/MARUZENNAGOYA/status/944492759779438592..