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
CultureEssayJapanese traditionProverbUncorrected Toru Nov 01, 2015Jan 07, 2024 master, mistake, Polish proverbs, proverbs, similar meanings Proverbs about Failure Today, I learned Polish proverbs. 失敗の諺 One of them is “Even the best baker sometimes fail to bake bread.” 今日は、ポーランドの諺を勉強しました。 Read More
CultureDiaryIdiomNewsUncorrected Toru Oct 26, 2015Jan 07, 2024 door, entrance, intercom, lock, lunch, mistake, physical condition, room, scared, shopping, slept, stranger, surprised Suspicious Individual Yesterday my physical condition was bad, so I slept after I went shopping and ate lunch. 不審者 Then the intercom 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
DiaryDisasterFoodPersonalUncorrected 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
GrammarLanguageMistakesUncorrected 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