Friday, January 31, 2020

A New Hope

R2D2 projects a hologram.

Princess Leia: "Help me Obi-wan. You're my only hope."
Luke: "Who? Ben?"
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Zさん:"A Jedi's life, convenient is not."

Friday, January 24, 2020

Like a Cat

Zさん:"Hey Aさん、久しぶり!How are you?"
Aさん:「Well, I live in a small apartment, I have bad posture, and I burn my tongue when I drink hot beverages.」
Zさん:"... wow, you really are a cat person."

Friday, January 17, 2020

The 5 Stages Of Learning To Read Japanese

1. "Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji? That's so hard to read. Well, at least I can read the part in Romaji."
2. "Ok, Hiragana and Katakana I got, but Kanji is just impossible. Thank goodness for Hurigana."
3. "Knowing all the basic Kanji helps, I can muddle through."
4. "I hate it when a Japanese sentence has a long stretch of Hiragana in it. Kinda hard to parse."
5. "This Japanese text has a portion written in Romaji. It's a bit awkward..."

Friday, January 10, 2020

大学で探す

Aさん:「Can you help me? I'm new on campus, and I've been wandering around trying to find Gleason Hall, but I can't find it anywhere. ビルない!」
Zさん:"... um ... the ... science ... guy ... ?"
Aさん:「。。。what?」

Friday, January 3, 2020

New Year's Resolution

Aさん:「あけましておめでとう!Do you have a New Year's resolution?」
Zさん:"Yeah, I started a new diet. I cannot eat anything this week, but I can eat 来週."

ミスタースパーコル:「Mmm... eat rice shoe.」

Zさん:"Dude... I thought my diet was tough..."