During our initial training to teach at my school, our trainers alerted us to Japanese pronunciation errors we might come across. The infamous “l/r” issue is indeed a reality – in our lessons, there are prates of flied lice, soaps on lopes, crassical concerts and lipped stockings galore. A lesser known pronunciation error of the […]
Month: May 2007
Words of the Week Part 2 or “Fluff Post in Lieu of Something Better”
I have several potentially interesting posts brewing in my head, but until I can sit down to give them the attention I hope they deserve, I give you another round of “Words of the Week.” ototoi – the day before yesterday. Perhaps meaningful only because it was the last word I wrote down in Western […]
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Hair in Japan
In our school, the staff likes to put up photos of all of the English teachers along with personal profiles. At the start of my tenure here, I very much enjoyed looking at what my fellow teachers had to say about their likes, dislikes and hobbies. Interesting, too, was actually meeting the teachers through the […]
Shirahama pt. 2 – or White Rudeness
Much like President’s Day in America, Golden Week is a moment in time where revelers enjoy the fruits and the shade but pay no attention to the tree. Green Day, Children’s Day, Grapenut Day – these are basically ignored. Yet, crowds of gleeful, celebrating tourists pack in heaving clots throughout any of the major tourist […]
Shirahama, pt. 1 or Surrounded
The train car was packed during the first leg of the much-anticipated trip to Shirahama so we had to stand, flanked by giggling Fem Bots, grim old men and sneering 13 year old boys in black military school uniforms. Our bags lay at our feet and we clung to the loops as people continued to […]