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木曜日, 11月 29, 2007

New Phrase: とうてん (当店)
Meaning and Thoughts: This is a classic example of knowing what something means when you see the word, but not being sure how to read it. So I looked it up in my trusty digital cellphone dictionary. This means this store as in when the store is referring to it's self. Saw this in an old yakitori place, and they were saying they had the best tastes in their store or something.

月曜日, 11月 26, 2007

New Phrase: えんき (延期)
Meaning and Thoughts: Heres a suru nounverby for y'all. This one came up in a conversation about certain work options. It means postponement or something of the sort. Something that wont happen yet.
New Phrase: よけいなもの (余計なもの)
Meaning and Thoughts: I'm actually not sure what this means, the English definition (learning backwards on the train) said white elephant but I'm not sure what that means. Google told me that meant an investment that wont return money so people don't want it. The context of the thing on the train seemed to mean it looked cool but it was really a normal easy to get thing.

土曜日, 11月 24, 2007

New Phrase: うとうと
Meaning and Thoughts: This one seems to mean something like dozing around, not really sleeping but not really awake.

火曜日, 11月 13, 2007

New Phrase: こくさいか (国際化)
Meaning and Thoughts: This word is so short in Japanese and soooo long in English, what we call internationalization or what I am every day of my recent life by existing where I exist. Uh huh yeah.