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“Next time you’re going to work out, tell your friends you’re going to do muscle-meat training. You’ll look like a badass for sure.”
― Learn Japanese in Bed: Because sometimes studying at a desk sounds just awful
― Learn Japanese in Bed: Because sometimes studying at a desk sounds just awful
“While 目が覚める (me ga sameru) can describe “returning to your senses”. I know that these subtle differences exist because I just googled it in Japanese, and then my Japanese wife Rei, super-editor and language extraordinaire, hasn’t deleted this sentence from the book.”
― Learn Japanese in Bed: Because sometimes studying at a desk sounds just awful
― Learn Japanese in Bed: Because sometimes studying at a desk sounds just awful
“Don’t follow my mother-in-law’s bad example. And don’t listen to me if you enjoy offending people. If you don’t enjoy offending people, a less rude word for “you” is あなた (anata), where the middle character is な (na) instead of ん (n). But you hardly ever need to be saying that, either. Call people by their names in Japanese whenever possible.”
― Learn Japanese in Bed: Because sometimes studying at a desk sounds just awful
― Learn Japanese in Bed: Because sometimes studying at a desk sounds just awful
“By the time you get good at hiragana, you’ll probably still suck at katakana,”
― Learn Japanese in Bed: Because sometimes studying at a desk sounds just awful
― Learn Japanese in Bed: Because sometimes studying at a desk sounds just awful
“Speaking of “the king of the jungle”, you might enjoy pompously telling people that lions are rarely found in jungles — they prefer savannah — so this phrase is stupid. Saying something like this is not art, my friends. You have to wait until someone else says it, and then say, “The word ‘jungle’ derives from Hindi, in which it describes a place that is ‘not inhabited by humans’. So the phrase is still quite accurate. Hmm. Yes. Indeed.”
― Learn Japanese in Bed: Because sometimes studying at a desk sounds just awful
― Learn Japanese in Bed: Because sometimes studying at a desk sounds just awful
“You’ll notice a theme in this story, which is that I probably sound like Jim Carrey in that movie where he says yes to absolutely everything.”
― Learn Japanese in Bed: Because sometimes studying at a desk sounds just awful
― Learn Japanese in Bed: Because sometimes studying at a desk sounds just awful
“I’m just worried that I won’t be able to sleep at night when I think about the millions of turkeys that will need to die to make this dream a reality.”
― Learn Japanese in Bed: Because sometimes studying at a desk sounds just awful
― Learn Japanese in Bed: Because sometimes studying at a desk sounds just awful
“which literally means 立ち (tachi // standing)”
― Learn Japanese in Bed: Because sometimes studying at a desk sounds just awful
― Learn Japanese in Bed: Because sometimes studying at a desk sounds just awful
“馬 (うま // uma) is “horse”, pronounced like the “Uma” in “Uma Thurman”. And now every time I see this famous actress, I'm going to think “Horse Thurman”.”
― Learn Japanese in Bed: Because sometimes studying at a desk sounds just awful
― Learn Japanese in Bed: Because sometimes studying at a desk sounds just awful
“How will I ever learn to recognize these characters?” You just will. Until that happens, though, trust in the Force. It is your ally. And a powerful ally it is.”
― Learn Japanese in Bed: Because sometimes studying at a desk sounds just awful
― Learn Japanese in Bed: Because sometimes studying at a desk sounds just awful
