Mixing languages is a whole lot of fun. Let me prove to you why! I had an online conversation recently with an ex-student of mine from Japan (hi Junko!) who's just moved to New York to work for the Japanese consulate there (yes, a dream job in a dream city - but she deserves it!). She was trying to …
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Japanese language success for my Christmas wish
I mentioned last week that one of my more unusual Christmas Days was spent in Japan, the particularly unusual part being that for the first time in my life I had to go to work on Christmas Day. It was probably the first day in my new life abroad that I felt a little homesick, thinking of my family …
Christmas in Japan = an odd kind of Christmas!
Christmas in Australia is not what I consider a traditional Christmas, mostly because the season's wrong, but the two Christmases I spent in Japan were even less of a traditional Christmas! The first problem, of course, was that as Japan is a Buddhist/Shinto nation, Christmas is not even a holiday …