CultureEssayEtymologyLanguageUncorrected Toru Oct 19, 2015Jan 07, 2024 cheating, cribbing, cunning, English, fraud, meaning, Meiji period, student, test, カンニング Cunning Japanese people call “a fraud in a test” “カンニング(cunning).” カンニング “カンニング” is derived from an English word “cunnning,” but the Read More
CultureDiaryIdiomLanguageUncorrected Toru Sep 17, 2015Jan 08, 2024 Don't worry about it, encourage, English, Japan, mistake, Never mind, nuance, phrases, use, ドンマイ Don’t Mind In Japan, we often say “ドンマイ(don-mai),” when we encourage people who made a mistake. Don’t mind “ドンマイ” is the word Read More
DiaryEntertainmentLanguage learningTechnologyUncorrected Toru Sep 15, 2015Jan 08, 2024 dramas, English, environment, improve, Netflix, PCs, smartphone, subtitles English Environment In order to improve English, I think it’s effective to build an environment that you have to use English. 英語の環境 Read More
DiaryEducationLanguageTechnologyUncorrected Toru May 24, 2015Jan 08, 2024 apartment, building, card key, English, laboratory, members, university, vacation, wallet I Can Do Little or Nothing Today, I tried to go to my university. 私は今日、学校に行こうとしました。 However, I couldn’t enter the building because the card key wasn’t Read More
BusinessDiaryEducationLanguageUncorrected Toru May 06, 2015Jan 08, 2024 cost, doctoral thesis, English, expensive, graduation thesis, invest, master's thesis, native experts, page, price, technical terms, thesis, word, writing, yen English proofreading Today is the last day of Japanese long-term holidays, but I was writing my graduation thesis in English as well Read More
DiaryEducationLanguageUncorrectedWriting Toru May 05, 2015Jan 08, 2024 all day, continuing, difficult, doctoral thesis, English, few pages, finish, near future, patiently, work, writing Doctoral Thesis Today, I started writing my doctoral thesis in English. 今日は、英語で博士論文を書き始めました。 Since it’s so difficult for me, I could only write Read More
EssayLanguage learningTranslationUncorrectedWriting Toru Apr 08, 2015Jan 08, 2024 article, English, Japanese, language, native language When I post English sentences with my native language on Lang-8. When I post English sentences with my native language on Lang-8.Lang-8で母語の文章を掲載するにあたって Recently, when I post an English article, I also Read More
EducationEssayLanguageLinguisticsUncorrected Toru Mar 29, 2015Jan 07, 2024 artificial language, education system, English, Esperanto, Guinness Book, irregular verbs, past participles, past tenses, rules, simplify things, United States high school Irregular Verbs I sometimes suffer from irregular verbs. 不規則動詞 When people began to use English, almost all verbs were irregular. 私は時々、英語の不規則動詞に悩まされます。 It Read More
DiaryEducationLanguageUncorrectedWriting Toru Mar 12, 2015Jan 06, 2024 annual report, apartment, article, blogs, conjunctive words, correct, differences, English, entrance examination, hence, institution, laboratory, national universities, short English paper, study, therefore, thus, understanding University Entrance Examination Day Today is an entrance examination day of all national universities in Japan. Since I couldn’t go to my laboratory, I Read More