BalaGi

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learns: English, Japanese

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E-books or Paper Books?

I learned to read pretty early as a kid. I loved reading and read profusely even into my teens. After devouring everything I liked from my parents' home library and the books they got for me, I
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Oct 24 - 3 min. read

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Obligation

Every time I log into Journaly after a few weeks of absence, I face a problem: I have too many unread posts from people I follow and I feel obligated to read them all. First of all, because they're
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Oct 13 - 1 min. read

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Refusing Help

My father told me just now, "We're almost out of eggs." "I can go to my aunt's tomorrow and ask for some", I replied. "She tells me to take some every time I visit." "Do you think it's alright to do
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Aug 18 - 5 min. read

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A Clockwork Orange

In June, my book club read A Clockwork Orange (1962) by Anthony Burgess. It's a dystopian book that depicts a society in which there's a certain groups of teenage boys that's extremely violent. The
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Jul 4 - 3 min. read

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The Only Way It Could Have Been

When I was learning programming in middle school, I read that there is no true randomness in computer systems. Behind it all, there are only mathematical functions, which will consistently give you
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Jun 3 - 1 min. read

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I Wish My Eyes Had a Record Button

Today we celebrate Victory Day. Initially, I had planned to take a bus to my parents' hamlet and join in the commemoration ceremony and events, but I caught a cold a few days ago, so I decided to
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May 9 - 3 min. read

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友達の誕生日

2週間前の土曜日は、友達の誕生日でした。友達の名前はイヴァンです。午後4時に誕生日会が始まりました。 パーティーには、私が知っている共通の友達が二人いました。イヴァンの他の友達は知りませんでした。イヴァンはたくさんの友達がいますから、25人が来ました。にぎやかでしたね! 私はいつも静かな人ですが、お酒が入るとしゃべれます。ビールを飲んだので、新しい人たちと知り合いました。
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May 5 - 1 min. read

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Paper Crane

I've just read this post and it sent me down memory lane. I had an origami book when I was a kid. I didn't know back then that it was Japanese art. Maybe it was mentioned in the book, I'm not sure.
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May 2 - 2 min. read

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Gift-Giving

Do you enjoy giving and receiving gifts? For me, it's always been a struggle. I don't really like getting things I don't need because I prefer to live minimalistically, without any clutter. What's
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Jan 31 - 2 min. read

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My Mistakes Learning Kanji

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
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Nov 17 - 2 min. read

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言語の祭り

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
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Nov 14 - 1 min. read

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日本語の先生の名前

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。
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Nov 9 - 1 min. read

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The Japanese Course I'm Taking

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
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Nov 9 - 2 min. read

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冬を待っています

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。
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Nov 1 - 1 min. read

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C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan–ATLAS)

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
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Oct 18 - 2 min. read

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Ear Piercing

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.
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Oct 14 - 3 min. read

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My Trip to Kaliningrad

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
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Oct 12 - 5 min. read

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Communication and Technology

"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.
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Oct 6 - 2 min. read

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ChatGPT and Language Learning

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
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Oct 4 - 2 min. read

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University Entrance Exam [2]

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
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Sep 24 - 3 min. read

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