February 2015 – Learning English and Japanese

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Diary Disaster Food Personal Uncorrected

Toru Feb 28, 2015Jan 06, 2024 birthday present, burnt, burnt deposit, cooking, curry, mistake, pot, sad, watching drama

Today, I cooked curry again and had a big mistake.

　Today, I cooked curry again and had a big mistake. In a typical recipe, we will simmer curry for about Read More

Business Diary Gaming Japanese tradition Uncorrected

Toru Feb 27, 2015Jan 06, 2024 banquet, debriefing session, dinner, exciting event, organizations, projects, research, software development venture, venture activity

Year-End Debriefing Session

　Today, the year-end debriefing session of various organizations in our university was held. Some people presented their research, and some Read More

Culture Diary Food Japanese tradition Uncorrected

Toru Feb 26, 2015Jan 06, 2024 birthday, birthday cake, birthday party, birthday presents, celebration, cherry blossom, grilled beef, laboratory, lip balm, rinse, shampoo

Birthday Party

　Today, a birthday party was held in our laboratory. We laboratory member are sometimes hold birthday parties when some members’ Read More

Culture Diary Language Uncorrected

Toru Feb 25, 2015Jan 06, 2024 24, American drama, characters, dirty mouse, Dr. House, dramas, Japanese subtitles, phrases, repeatedly, The Big Bang Theory, trademark phrases, words

Phrases of American Dramas

　When I was watching an American drama, I was noticed that I could understand some phrases or words without Japanese Read More

Culture Essay Idiom Language Uncorrected

Toru Feb 24, 2015Jan 06, 2024 complimenting, difficult, great, important, meaning, noun, phrase, pronoun, sense, truth, used to

That’s Something

　I didn’t know the meaning of the phrase “That’s something.” In fact, I didn’t know the noun meaning of something, Read More

Culture Diary Food Japanese tradition Uncorrected

Toru Feb 23, 2015Jan 06, 2024 body, breakfast, curry, dinner, Japanese Black Wagyu, lunch, servings, smell

Cook Hot Curry

　Yesterday, I cooked hot curry for my dinner. Since I used an expensive Japanese Black Wagyu, it became delicious. However, Read More

Grammar Language Mistakes Uncorrected

Toru Feb 22, 2015Jan 06, 2024 alien, almost, careful, confused, correct examples, human, mistake, most, note, people, scientists, wrong examples

How to Use ‘Almost’ and ‘Most’

　I’m sometimes confused by how to use ’almost’ and most. So today, I’d like to make a note about correct Read More

Culture Essay Japanese tradition News Uncorrected

Toru Feb 21, 2015Jan 06, 2024 blood, brain rest, conditioned reflex, danger, digestion, false accusation, fatigue level, inemuri, Japanese practice, job, molesters, nature characteristics, physical characteristics, public order, public places, sleepiness, sleeping, study, swaying, train

Inemuri

　Inemuri is the Japanese practice of sleeping on the public places. Particularly, we often sleep as we’re riding a train. Read More

Mathematics Physics Science Uncorrected

Toru Feb 20, 2015Jan 06, 2024 15 times, 42 times, 439, 8 times, 804 km, 83 times, distance, earth, fold, force, galaxy, human height, math problem, moon, paper, thickness

A Way to Reach Moon by Folding a Paper

Today, I’d like to talk about a famous math problem. “In order to reach moon, how many times do you Read More

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