CultureDiaryFoodScienceUncorrected Toru Apr 07, 2017Jan 06, 2024 disappointment, disease, gathering, Lang-8, nauseous, party, recovering, university, virus, vomited Nausea Yesterday, I was feeling nauseous all day since I woke up in the morning. 吐き気 Although I felt like hell, Read More
CultureEssayEtymologyJapanese traditionSlangUncorrected Toru Feb 26, 2017Jan 06, 2024 801, boys' love, coterie magazine, doujinshi, entries, homosexuality, Lang-8, manga, slash fiction, yaoi 801 (Yaoi) Day before yesterday, the number of entries on Lang-8 reached 800. 801 Thus I posted the 801st entry yesterday. 二日前、Lang-8での投稿数が800に達しました。 Read More
CultureEssayEtymologyIdiomJapanese traditionSlangUncorrected Toru Jan 14, 2017Jan 02, 2024 Buddhism, give up, Japanese term, Lang-8, mikka bozu, priest, quit, secular life, three days, training Mikka Bozu Today I will talk about the Japanese term “mikka bozu”. 三日坊主 The literal meaning is “three days guy”, and it Read More
CultureEssayEtymologyHistoryJapanese traditionKanjiUncorrected Toru Dec 31, 2016Jan 03, 2024 etymology, Japanese events, Lang-8, misoka, new year's eve, omisoka, traditional, tsugomori, tsuki-gomori Omisoka (New Year’s Eve) Omisoka 大晦日 Today is 大晦日 (omisoka), which means new year’s eve. 今日は大晦日です。 “晦日 (misoka)” was originally written as “三十日 (misoka)”, Read More
CultureEducationEssayEtymologyLanguage learningUncorrected Toru Dec 15, 2016Jan 03, 2024 imitate, Japanese, Lang-8, learn, manabu, narau, sentence, study, teach Narau” and “Manabu” (To Learn) When I read sentences written by people who learn Japanese on Lang-8, I found that “narau” is often confused with Read More
CultureDiaryEtymologyIdiomProverbSlangUncorrected Toru Nov 23, 2016Jan 03, 2024 calendar, English, Lang-8, learning, mistake, network failure, Publish, regret, sad, study The Biggest Mistake Yesterday I took a big mistake. 最大のミス Although I continued posting English sentences on Lang-8 every day more than 700 Read More
CultureDiaryEuropean countriesLanguage learningPersonalUncorrected Toru Nov 16, 2016Jan 03, 2024 Belgium, culture, entry, Japanese, Lang-8, listening, post, presentation, speaking, writing The 700th Post This is my 700th post. 700回目の投稿 When I was thinking “hmm, what should I write about today,” I found that Read More
EducationEssayJapanese traditionLanguageUncorrected Toru Feb 09, 2016Jan 07, 2024 conjunctions, experience, graduation theses, grammatical errors, Japanese sentences, Lang-8, mistake, sensitive, students, tenses Correcting Japanese Students Recently, I often correct graduation theses of students in my laboratory. 日本語の学生の添削 Since they are Japanese sentences that were written Read More
Academic achievementsDiaryEnglish learningSelf-improvementUncorrected Toru Jan 01, 2016Jan 07, 2024 2015, 2016, devote, dissertation presentation, doctoral course, English, English journal, graduate, international conference, Lang-8, papers, work, year resolution Year Resolutions in 2016 Happy new year, everyone. 2016年の目標 My year resolution in 2015 was to improve my English, but I don’t know whether Read More