As I was adding words from the textbook Minna no Nihongo to my Anki deck, I wondered, "Why doesn't the word for bank contain the kanji for gold? Wouldn't that be more logical? Why is there some other

明後日、図書館に言語のイベントがあります。「ヤロスラヴリの言語の祭り」といいます。毎時十時から六時まで２～４回の講義があります。 日本語の講義は十六時にあります。話題は何ですか。知りません。多分、「日本語には 三つの書記体系があります」といった基本的な内容から始まるのでしょうか…　それはもう知っているよ！ しらない言語の講義を聞きます。十一時に中国語の講義に行きます

昨日、初めて日本人の先生との日本語の授業がありました。名前は幸伸です。 「ユキさんと呼んでください」と先生が言いました。 「ユキの言葉は雪という意味ですか」と学生の一人が質問をしました。 「いいえ、ユキは幸せです」と先生が答えました。 でも、「幸せ」という言葉はそう発音されません！僕は混乱しています。

In October, I started taking a Japanese course. I contemplated joining a second-year group, but I realized that after all this time I still can't read anything in Japanese and I don't understand the

今日はこの秋初めて雪が降りました。もうすぐ冬が始まりそうです。 私は秋があまり好きではありません。外は水が多く至る所に水たまりがあります。風が強いです。雨がよく降ります。 それに比べて冬の方が好きです。雪は雨よりいいです。風が弱いです。でも、日が短いです。

My friend and I saw it in the news in late September: There's a comet that's going to be visible to the naked eye in October. We were expecting it for a while. It was supposed to be the brightest on

I got invited to my niece's birthday party. The guests were mostly her friends, all of them in their early 20s, so a little younger than me. One of her friends came with her boyfriend, a new guy.

Do you like to travel? I don't think I do. I prefer the comfort of my home. Yet, on occasion, I go on short trips. More often than not, these trips have been exhausting and the amount of pleasure I

"The more elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate." - Joseph P. O'Brien Since the invention of the telephone, our means of communication have been constantly changing.

Today I finally tried out ChatGPT. It's been the current big thing for a while. Everybody talks about it. Even though I'm very skeptical and usually reject all new things, I decided to give it a shot

I was procrastinating until the very last minute before the exam. In preparation, I only practiced writing article summaries twice — I posted both of them on Journaly previously. The exam itself took

The article in question talks about raising children. Screaming at kids or physically punishing them doesn't make them behave. On the other hand, the more freedom they have, the better they can

This is a summary of an article titled "School or real life? Doing sixth grade homework." This article is about an issue of schoolkids' homework being way too hard, leaving them no time for

When someone has problems in their lives, they're often told, "Why are you so sad? Other people have it worse!" I always hated this way of thinking. The first time I heard that was from my mother. I

This is the summary of an article titled "Making education efficient."  The subject of the article is an education system reform in Russia. The majority of high school students aim to eventually get

I've been thinking about going to a university to get a master's degree. I have the opportunity to do so for free. In my country, you can get free education for every education degree level, and I

Have you ever been in a situation where you couldn't understand a person because they were talking too fast? And when you asked them to repeat the sentence, they repeated it at the same speed? So you

My father and I were shopping for construction materials when he got a phone call from my niece. She asked for help with a water pump my cousin bought yesterday to water their garden. The outlet on

My mother and I were talking about my niece's five-year-old son. My niece had asked me to teach him to play music — she had bought him a toy piano. Leaving aside the fact that I can't play the piano

Today, my brother's in-laws visited my parents. We talked about lots of stuff, then the discussion switched to the topic of public transport. The mother-in-law, Larisa, remembered something that