Here Fusanosuke writes about Japanese language, culture and history.
Daily posts feature new words and expressions from the authentic Japanese materials, making it easier to memorize.
Telling short stories about the new expressions is an effective way to master new vocabulary.
Taking the quotes from the Japanese culture and history proves that the phrases from the textbooks are not that boring and can be applied in different contexts.
A word/phrase a day is easy to remember especially when associated with some interesting situation.
There is so much more about the Japanese language than just drilling the kanji strokes!
いい加減にしろ --いいかげんにしろ-- (exp) that's enough!; cut it out!; get a life!;
いい加減にしろよ。 -- Cut it out
and then on the hand-writing:
殺すぞ! -- I'll kill you!
殺す--ころす-- (v5s,vt) to kill; (P)
ぞ as an indication of emphasis.
This is from (1) by 高尾滋 (Takao Shigeru), p.20. I just love how easy it is to rememeber the new words once you could put the emotions behind them )))
I love this situation in by 高尾滋 (Takao Shigeru), page 5. A boy from 21 century finds himself in Taishou Japan. Not knowing how to use a fundoshi, he finds himself on the receiving end of a friend's joke who assures him that this is actually a napkin. Hence, they wear fundoshi as napkins at the table. The butler is not amused, though ))))
前掛け --まえかけ -- (n) apron
下着--したぎ-- (n) underwear
下着 has a katakana reading of ふどし which I believe refers to
--ふんどし-- (n) (1) loincloth; breechcloth; breechclout; traditional Japanese male underwear; (2) sumo wrestler's ornamental apron
This is my favourite manga about Taishou period. I'm reading it currently, trying to translate every phrase instead of skipping through and it definitely proves very useful as suddenly I see all the grammar points I've just learned.
でもこれはオレにバイオリンを教えてくれたじーさんが買ってくれた
教えてくれた --おしえてくれた--
買ってくれた -- かってくれた--
The problem with translation is that I always want to make it passive voice, though it's not passive in Japanese, but overall meaning is "But my grandpa had brought me this violin and taught me how to play it".