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スーパーの女 (伊丹 十三, 1996)

Wednesday, June 25th, 2008
日本語 (Japanese), 映画 (film) | No Comments »

Supermarket Woman (Itami Juzo, 2006)
[wikipedia] - [imdb]
On DVD at home with Lucía on 25 June 2008 around 23:00.
Juzo Itami likes to make movies about self-improvement. About learning how to do something right, and about staying on the straight and narrow despite what obstacles you might find thrown at you. While much more focused […]

Japanese through hiragana

Friday, June 29th, 2007
日本語 (Japanese), 映画以外 (not film) | No Comments »

A large percentage of Japanese vocabulary comes from Chinese (more than half?). As I’ve heard it, the original Japanese language had no writing system (or it was lost to history) and when the Chinese writing system was adopted during the first millenium AD, a large quantity of Chinese vocabulary was brought with it. […]