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Todays Tip: How to easily turn any known noun into asay a noun is noun'ish' For example. In America when we want to say something has style we might say it is stylish, or technically that it bears strong resemblance of the noun style. Or pertains or bears an air of the noun. In Japanese we use noun+ ppoi. You could think of it this way, pretend you are in Hawaii dipping your words in poi and your word will come out looking like the thing you dipped it in. For example in Japanese . Its similiar to the -ly of adverbs If we want to say the car is sluggish ) osoppoi. Just like in English where we can stick ish on the tail end of just about any word



Througout these mini- japanese language tutoring lessons I'll be giving you a lot more useful tips to help you master that nihongo.

3 kinds of train

3 types of Japanese trains + 1 bonus train
There are three basic types of trains that a gaijin living in Japan should know about. Without knowledge of the different types of trains, you could find yourself at the wrong eki (train station), get off at the wrong place and this could cause you to arrive late and we can't have that. If you are a gaijin living in Japan you'll run across these terms sooner or later but its better that you get introduced to them here so that you won’t be confused about the different types of passenger trains you’ll come across when you roam about the land of the rising sun, Japan.
There are 3 basic types of trains that run in Japan. There are few cities in Japan that aren't covered with some mileage of train track, but not much. The crossing whistles always blow and the crossing gates are constantly opening and shutting. Of course the trains stop running usually by 1 or 2 am. The three types of trains that are regularly used in Japan are, in order of frequency of stops from most to least are as follow:
Tokkyu (special limited),
Kyuukou (limited express), and
Futsuu (regular).
Tokkyu trains stop at only the major train stations and are much faster in terms of getting you there quicker. Kyukoo trains stop more periodic, while the Futsuu trains stop at every stop in between, and are thus quite slower than the other two. Ideally you would want to ride a Tokkyu train, get off and wait for a Kyuukou unless that train doesn't go to your destination, and using Kyukoo for small train rides to the very next station etc. If your destination is a small hamlet in the country side then you will have to take for at least a small portion of your ride the Futsuu train. The train I haven’t mentioned which has incorporated the use of the new maglev technology and has achieved speeds in the upper 500 km/hr is the Shinkansen, or bullet train, isn’t your everyday run of the mill train. Essentially the shinkansen is a very classy and expensive ride that covers great distances, like from Tokyo to Osaka for example. Hopefully you will enjoy all your train rides and become accustomed to this type of culture in constant transit during your visits to the land of the rising sun, Japan.

Outlandish love life in the midst of Out of Place Blogging

Do you have a lurking suspicion that your significant other may be cheating on you? You know, those strange impressions and feelings you get lately that he/she may be messing around sexually or otherwise and you want to find out why, who, where and why again? After the clues of their deceit come the names of the culprits. If you suspect your significant other to be cheating on you and want to find out who they are doing it with continue to read to the end.
11 signs of Infidelity – The infidel alarm
Your infidel alarm should go off for any or all of the following reasons:
1. When you hear your friends mention to you that she/ he has been acting un-seemingly for a loyal lover. Ouch
2. When your significant other exudes smells unfamiliar to you. Lipstick on collar, barely noticeable hickies any physical sudden differences may be cause for the infidel alarm.
3. If they are the type that usually always wants sex but lately for some reason they seem uninterested. Basically any unexpected change in their sexual habits should be a cause for the infidel alarm.
4. When your phone bill is a higher than usual. Long distance or other types of phone charges to cities unknown to people unknown. When you find phone numbers filling his/her cell phone that you have no clue who they are then this may be a cause for the infidel alarm. Ouch.
5. When you find that your lover has changed the password on the windows startup or has files locked or when in general anything requiring a password or a lock to be bolted on something that was previously free for you to explore thus hiding his/her dirty two-timing.
6. When your significant other starts caring or paying more attention to their looks like make-up etc when before with you they weren't that concerned.
7. If you happen to find your credit card has been billed to adultfriendfinder.
8. When your significant other comes home with amazingly strange gifts that he/she offers ludicrous explanations about where they came from.
9. When you receive more than your fair share of prank calls or just simply more strange phone calls where the caller hangs up on you. Ouch.
10. Be very weary of your significant other when they appear to be having a little too much fun chatting online and using their instant messaging systems too much. I sadly must admit this has been the cause of infidelity in too many of my friends, even marriages and kids can't seem to suffice in quelling the alarm of the infidel.
11. If you find any item that seems out of place, and your intuition is giving you the suspicion that your significant other is up to no good. Items like, strange panties, Hanes or other brands of underwear you know you didn't buy at Wal-mart, condoms when you don't use any, any type of strange articles of clothing, shirts, hair clips, rubber bands, cosmetics, accessories just little pieces of evidence where your significant other can't just put the to your faithful dog.
So what to do? The loss of a love can be debilitating, I know. One thing you can do is find out who the other person is. Find the owner of any cell phone number using the reverse cell phone search. More is explained here at http://squidoo.com/phonesearch

If your infidel alarm has startled your little neighborhood and you can’t find out what is going on, take matters into your own hands. You can take control. To get to the bottom of this fiasco, all you need is a cell phone number. You can find out who owns any cell number by going directly here and inserting the cell numberClick Here

OOH lala Pronunciation is on the lips and the teeth and the tip of the tongue

Table 1 - The 46 Syllables of the Japanese Syllabary (romanized)
a ka sa ta na ha ma ya ra wa n
i ki shi chi ni hi mi ri
u ku su tsu nu fu mu yu ru
e ke se te ne he me re
o ko so to no ho mo yo ro wo

Table 2 - The 46 Syllables of the Japanese Syllabary called the gojuon or 50 sounds (Hiragana)
あ か さ た な は ま や ら わ ん
い き し ち に ひ み り
う く す つ ぬ ふ む ゆ る
え け せ て ね へ め れ
お こ そ と の ほ も よ ろ を


When the tsu syllable is added before the syllables beginning with k,p, and t (ie. the consonants sounds of k,p, or t), a hardened double consonant sound is produced. You literally spit out the sounds or, as I like to put it, smack the consonants. To better understand where I am coming from, imagine two billiard balls sitting on a pool table. One of the balls is a word that contains a single consonant sound like k, the other ball is the syllable tsu. Now shoot the k ball with your cue ball and when they hit upon impact kk sound. when the consonant sounds are doubled. This doubled consonant phenomenon can be likened to the English word bookkeeper. In bookkeeper the sound of the consonant k is doubled, adding the syllable tsu to ka, ki, ku, ke, ko, ta chi, tsu, te, to or, pa,pi,pu,pe,or po doubles the consonant sound of the consonant sound of the syllable immediately following it.

Japanese pronunciation rule #1 - A small つ(tsu) doubles the consonant sound that immediately follows it.

Examples:
makka – deep red, completely red
jikken – experiment or test
shuppan – publish , shuppatsu – departure
zettai – absoluteness
tokkyo – patent (not the city toukyou which has the elongated
happi – the English word happy in katakana
gakkou – school
chotto – a little bit, a dink
appuru - apple


When n is not connected to a vowel (ie. usage of the last syllable of the Japanese syllabary or ん(n) , it is like a syllable unto itself. It receives a full count if language were a music it would receive the same amount of time that a 2 lettered syllable receives., and is denoted by the apostrophe ‘. For example:
1. Kin’en this is Japanese for no smoking not kinen or the word for anniversary.
so it has 4 syllables and the word for anniversary has 3.

To get a better feel of how the Japanese say words that begin with ra, ri, ru, re, or ro, do this: First, say to yourself in English the word Eddy then, make sure the tip of your tongue is touching delicately behind the upper front teeth and say it again Pronouncing it with just the right amount of lightness of tongue and a flicking forward of the tongue in this manner, you will come close to an acceptable pronunciation of the Japanese word for eri or collar.