Miguel

“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”.”
― Nicholas 'Niko' Walker, 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.”
― Nicholas 'Niko' Walker, 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.”
― Nicholas 'Niko' Walker, Learn Japanese in Bed: Because sometimes studying at a desk sounds just awful

“which literally means 立ち (tachi // standing)”
― Nicholas 'Niko' Walker, Learn Japanese in Bed: Because sometimes studying at a desk sounds just awful