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  I made a drawing of a room and described the different objects in it.  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Translation: つくえの下にコンピュータがあります。 Under the desk there is a computer まどの前にせんぷうきがあります。 There is a fan in front of the window. 右下隅にピアノがあります。そして、左上隅にドアがあります。 There is a piano in the bottom right. And there is a door in the top left. コンピュータの右にコンセントがあります。でも、コンピュータプラグはコンセントから引き抜きです。 There is an outlet to the left of the computer. But the computer plug is unplugged from the outlet. へやの真ん中にちいさいベッドがあります。 In the middle of the room there is a small bed. まどのみぎにミニれいぞうこがあります。 There is a mini fridge to the right of the window. ちいさいテーブルの上にでんわがあります。 There is a phone on top of the small table. ドアの下にマットがあります There is a matt under the door. モニターの下にキーボードおよびマウスがあります。 Under the monitor there is a keyboard and mouse. 部屋 Room --------------------------------------------------------------------------------...

Summary: I start off by saying my weekend is boring. Then I say that I jog in the morning and return in about an hour. Next is about me gaming. I say I play video games and that I play a game call Multiverses in which I am a high rank at. I also mention while I am playing Multiverses I check to see if the twitch streamer I watch is live. Finally, I mention that sometimes I scrimmage Valorant on Saturday.  Overall my weekend is not to exciting at all. Its usually about the same as my day to day.  

Summary: The slideshow starts off by saying that I used to go to a video game store call GameStop. Then its mentions that I would buy games often there. I then say there are many fast food places there and that I would sometimes go there. After that I go to say that there used to be a video rental store and now there no longer is. Next is about a super market and that there was a big one. I also mention that the super market had many options for food in it. Next side says that there is a book store far away and that it would take a long time to arrive there. Finally I say that there is a  movie theater and that I would not go there often. To conclude there is a end slide that says end in both English and in Japanese.  Overall this is just a quick google slide to read that mentions places in a Hometown. I imbedded the slideshow up top on the page. I also wrote the slide vertically for it to read almost like a Japanese book with picture. I think that this...

  When doing research I found an abandoned island called the Hashima Island. It was an small, compact island that shut down after being used for mining coal for many years. What happened is that after many years of mining right outside of mainland Japan. Japan would switch their main source of energy which later caused the island to shut down and cause the population of the island to decline after once being called the "battleship island." It also seem that the Island was running out of coal and much of the weather conditions were really taking its tool on the island.  There are many images and google earth 360 images of the island in which most of it can be seen as broken down and taken over by nature. At the islands peak it was home to a population size of 5,000 and once had the title of most densely populated place on Earth. Now its a deserted island with nothing but broken building and nature completely over taking it. The shape that the island is in causes some peopl...

  I think that this is a good batch of Kanji. The Kanji 曜 can be annoying sometimes to write because the amount of strokes. I also think that 金 is interesting because it does not look like it relates to what it means right away. The Kanji 週 has some interesting radical inside to create the meaning of week. Overall I think these are good Kanji to learn because of how common they are used.     

  When looking at Kanji like 山 you can see that a lot of them originate from what their meaning is. This is very apparent when looking at the bone oracles which shows some of the history on how that particular Kanji was formed. Overall, I think that the bone oracles are interesting, and these Kanji are not that difficult based on how they look compared to what they mean.    

Japanese Education Education in Japan seems to be very different from the ones in America but do have some similarities. Starting with some of the basics both America and Japan travel to a building  for school and learning  in classes. In America though it is possible to take school from home or online. Moving on to schedules it seems both have clubs, classes and lunch. In one of the video’s it mentions a clean time in Japan which America does not have. In Japan uniforms are required but in America they are not in public schools but are in private schools. In Japan it seems teachers are much more respected than the ones in America. Such as the underpayment America teachers receive but I am not sure about the pay Japan teachers receive.  It seems both countries value student learning but I wonder if there are different strategies for going about that. I assume both take tests and quizzes but I wonder how units and lectures are structured. In America many high schools have ...

  The naming system in Japan vs America is very different. Starting with how the family name in Japan always comes first and comes second in America. There can be similarities where when two people get married one of the switches their name to the same as the other. Even though they both have this similarity in Japan they have to follow this but in America, it's a choice. Even though marriages usually follow this rule in America if you want to you could combine the family name or not switch at all. Now going back to Japan, middle names are very uncommon and usually don't exist. Their names are all usually in Kanji but it's possible to have hiragana and katakana names. Women's names in Japan are in hiragana more than males. There are also usually not any spaces in their names, unlike in America where there is a space between the first and last name. Along with people names in Japan when people are close they add nickname-like parts to each other's names. These nickna...

       This book call ganbatteiruminasanhe follows the main character who seems to be a bunny who is also nameless. The first page starts with the main character and two others, one dog and one cat. In the text bubbles they are all saying goodbye to each other. That makes me assume they are probably friends with each other. The actual text asks if we are busy at work and if we are tired too. The next page shows the main character walking down a street thinking about school and work. They text says that the main character is busy with school and work and became very tired. The main character then stop and says that they are alone on their way home and are lonely on this day. The main character is then struck by the moon in the sky. They then say that the moon is very clean today. Then they also sees that many stars in the sky. The main character then says that their loneliness and tiredness disappears when looking at the stars and moons. On the final page the main cha...

  My day does not consist of much but this is the overview what it is.  Summary: Play video games in the morning. Do stuff with my dogs. Sometimes study, and computer program while watching YouTube or Twitch. In a day living in Japan I would say would be vastly different based off where you live in Japan. Such as in Tokyo because its a city so it would probably consist of a lot of public transport compared to out somewhere else. There are probably many cultural difference when living in US versus Japan but outside of that I assume many things depend on where you live in a certain country. When writing in Japanese its usually done vertically which is interesting in itself but having to add particles and change the word order is very different from English. What is also different is the way the sentences are cut off in Japanese compared to English.             

       Business Cards in the US are a lot different to the ones in Japan. The actual cards themselves look similar but the way people handle them in each country are very different. I do not have much experience with business cards in general but the way I see it in the US. The cards are given quickly and put in the receivers pocket or bag. Also, not all business cards are given in the US they can also sometimes be seen on a reception desk in a business. Now compared to Japan it seems that the way business cards are exchange there is very formal. The cards are exchanged by the two people and they have to give each other the card a certain way and say things a certain way which is vastly different from the US. What is even more interesting is that after receiving the business card you are not able to just slide it in your pocket. You have to store it a certain way otherwise its seen as disrespectable.             Overall I find the d...

 

  Kanji is very interesting with how they originate along with how each of them have there own meaning. When its comes to radicals and combing Kanji to make new Kanji it can become complicated for new learners. The Latin alphabet is very different to Kanji, but can be compared to Hiragana and Katakana. That's why a lot of Western speakers don't quite understand Kanji. Instead of combining Kanji you can put them next to each other in a sentence which can make a new word.