Posts Tagged ‘Japanese’
WAITING, WISHING
22 mai 2011 by a*urélie
Today as I was riding around Setagaya, I saw a black cloud coming out of a house on Jiyu Dori. I stopped in front of its gate where some people were gazing at the smelly smoke. I concluded after a few seconds of observation that none had taken any action. They were just contemplating the [...]
Tags: Anecdotes, Japanese
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EARLY BIRD
25 avril 2011 by a*urélie
Tokyo. 5 o’clock daylight. I had forgotten about this feeling that the day cannot wait. Natural stimulant.
I got back from Paris yesterday. Walking from the airport bus stop to my flat, I was greeted by an old Japanese man. He looked at my face and my backpack and back to my face. Then with a [...]
Tags: Japan, Japanese, Tokyo
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CULTURE WITH A c #3
2 juin 2010 by a*urélie
Good morning!
Yesterday’s top 3:
- finding out that the most austere analyst at my company likes his nails manicured
- seeing a cop in his police car with a motorcycle helmet on
- checking out grandmas at the pool put their swimsuit on top of their underwear (!!)
Now more seriously (although everything above mentioned is true!)…
Let me share [...]
Tags: Anecdotes, Japan, Japanese
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CULTURE WITH A c #2
28 mai 2010 by a*urélie
I must be fair to my beloved Japanese friends and precise that the cultural dictionnary I am reading and quoting was published in 1986. On top of the form constraint (short definitions), this explains part of its sometimes hilarious statements… (Yes 1986 was 24 years ago… That is literally killing me… Time I mean…)
Anyway, after [...]
Tags: Japan, Japanese
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SMOOTH OPERATORS
7 septembre 2009 by a*urélie
« Please do it later » is an injunction that one gets to read many times a day if commuting with Tokyo Metro. Very dangerous words for the subconscious mind of a procrastinator…
Yet I absolutely love these manner posters: they are beautifully graphic, their messages always make me wonder about the Japanese society’s values and I love [...]
Tags: Japanese
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私の趣味はブログを書くことです*
23 août 2009 by a*urélie
Every language learning experience is a dive into a country’s cultural ocean. First you lack oxygen. But progressively you learn how to breathe under the water… and you enjoy watching strange fishes swim.
My Japanese teachers belong to an unknown, lovely species. As my friends and I learn new grammatical patterns, we get some practice conversation [...]
Tags: Dance, Illustration, Japan, Japanese
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YUMOA
5 juillet 2009 by a*urélie
Like for food, one can make humour, appreciate it or both at the same time.
My friends know that I have the terrible habit of laughing at my own jokes way louder and longer than anyone who has to listen to them. What amuses me most is comic repetition, a genre that tires people… Sorry…
Well I [...]
Tags: Game, Japanese
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