Raining Cats and Dogs
Raining Cats and Dogs 土砂降りの雨 Today, there was a temporary downpour. 今日は、一時的に土砂降りでした。 In English, there are some phrases that mean
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Learning English and Japanese
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Etymology
Complement versus Compliment
When I write a technical paper, I sometimes use the word “complement.” Complement と compliment However, I often mistake “compliment”
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Predicate adjectives that begin with “a”
Today, I learned an adjective that begin with “a” is a predicative adjective almost all cases. 私は、a で始まる形容詞はほとんど全て叙述用法でのみ使われると学びました。 In the
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I bought a kindle paperwhite
I bought a kindle paperwhite because it was sold at 3000 yen off for people who are members of Amazon
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Health Checkup
Today, I had a health checkup at my university. 健康診断 I was weighed and measured, took a urine test, had
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Hackers and Crackers
Today, we could not access the internet at our university. ハッカーとクラッカー The cause was unclear, and we could not use
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Meaning of “K” in “4K
We recently came to use the word “4K” or “8K” as an resolution indicator. 「4K」の「K」の意味 If we use the word
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Traffic Light Color
Traffic light colors are based on universal standard. According to the International Commission on Illumination (CIE), colors that can be
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The Longest English Word
It was written that interesting things as the followings on a web site: あるサイトで、次のような面白いことが書かれていました。 ・”Almost” is the longest English word
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