My Study of Japanese

日本語の勉強 難しくても、この二年は日本語の勉強が好きです。 でも、日本語を勉強したいのに、日本語の勉強つづけるつもりはありません。 私は二つのせんこうがあるので、日本語を勉強するの時間がありません。 もっと勉強するために日本語のふくせんこうがありますが、もう一つの日本語の授業を受けるだけです。 だから、すぐに日本語の勉強も終わります。 かなしいけど、海外で勉強したり、大学院でもっと日本語の授業を受けたりできるといいですね... とにかく、私のブログを読んでくれてありがとうございました！

マクミランさんは食戟のソーマをみる This week I watched the second episode of the final season of Shokugeki no Souma (食戟のソーマ). It is a shonen series centered around "cooking battles" between chefs. The protagonist Yukihira Souma (幸平創真（ゆきひら そうま)) is the son of a famous chef, that enrolls in a prestigious culinary arts high school called the Tōtsuki Tea Ceremony and Cooking Academy (遠月茶寮料理學園 Tōtsuki Saryō Ryōri Gakuen). The story has followed his growth as a chef and his struggles to protect the cooking world from the clutches of would-be evil exploiters. The premise a bit goofy, but I enjoy watching this show much more than I originally thought I would! This episode saw Souma and his classmates compete with each other to secure Tōtsuki's three reserved spots for the most premier cooking competition in the world: the BLUE. Souma and his friends Tadokoro Megumi (田所 恵 (たどころ めぐみ)) and Aldini Takumi (アルディーニ 拓海 (たくみ)) secure the spots, but the episode ends on a cliffhanger when a new sensei ...

迷惑 世界には迷惑な人がたくさんいます。 私のこえが大きいので、人に迷惑をかけると思います... しずかな場所で話したら、人に迷惑をかけます。 迷惑な人は大こえで話したりひまであったりするようなことをすると思います。 たとえば、私は迷惑な人にチームプロジェクトだけで仕事をさせられました。 でも、私は臆病なので、文句を言いませんでした ... けれども、人に迷惑をかけないように、ていねいにがんばっています！

マクミランさんは僕のヒーローアカデミアを見る After months and months this season of Boku no Hero Academia has finally come to a close! I really enjoyed this season as seeing the big fight scenes finally animated (instead of just reading them in manga form) was super cool. This finale episode focused on the Flame Hero Endeavor (フレイムヒーロー エンデヴァー), who is Todoroki's dad and also the new number 1 Japanese Hero after All Might retired during the events of last season. In this episode Endeavor battles a super-powered "noumu" (creatures created by the League of Villains) with the help of other pro heroes like the number 2 hero: Wing Hero Hawks (ウィングヒーロー ホーク). After a really awesome fight scene Endeavor barely wins, and he earns the praise of the Japanese citizens as the true successor to All Might's legacy.  It has been very interesting to watch this season alongside my Japanese studies for this year. I can now understand the grammar behind some of the translations I see as the subtitles. F...

オンラインクラス 今のところ、私はオンラインクラスが好きじゃありません。 私たちは家にいなければならない理由をりかいしていますが、それでも私はかなしいです。 クラスメートと個人な話すなど、オンラインクラスではできないことがたくさんあります。 そして、だれもが家にいるので、インターネットコネクションはとても悪いです... まだ、多くの先生は私たちにたくさん宿題させてくれますし、先生ににれんらくするのは難しいです。 でも、わたしは先生ががんばってることを知っています。 私はこの問題が二度と起こらないことをねがっています！

マクミランさんはドロヘドロを見る This week I decided to watch the 3-D anime adaptation of a famous seinen manga: Dorohedoro. The story is about a post-apocalypse world where most people live in horrible slums called "the Hole" while powerful sorcerers who utilize magic in the form of smoke live in a separate "world". Sorcerers often practice their magic on normal people, their experiments killing or disfiguring them. A man named Caiman was the subject to one of these experiments, losing his memory and being transformed into a lizard monster immune to magic! Now he and his friend Nikaido fight every sorcerer they come across looking for the sorcerer that transformed Caiman, with hopes of transforming him back. The series is extremely violent and has a twisted sense of humor, but I think thats what makes it so popular. It is probably one of the most famous modern mangas by a female mangaka, which is very cool. In the first episode Caiman's exploits make him the target of...

地球の温暖化 さいきん、せかいの気温はあたたかくなってきています。 これは、人間がにさんかたんそを作りすぎているためです。 むだらしい人は食べすぎ、車やひこうきで旅行しすぎ、世界にがいをおよぼすものを使いすぎです。 地球の温暖化は洪水、台風、ほかのさいがいにつながります。 ざんねんながら、地球の温暖化の問題はせいじのようなものだから、人々は一緒に働きたくないと思います。 うまくいけば、人々は地球の温暖化を止めるために働くことが出来ます。

さいあくの日 こんにちは、みなさん。 昨日はひどかったからかなしいですね。 さいしょに寝ぼうしたので、朝食を食べないで学校に行きました。 宿題を忘れたし、ポップクイズがあったし、学校の日は悪かったんです。 それに、私はきねんびのプレゼントを買いませんでしたが、かのじょにしかれてしまった。 その後、私が駅にいたとき、私はどろぼうにさいふをぬすまれました！ そして、電車をおりたときにわたしは雨にふった。 さいごに、よるに、大じしんがありました。こわい！ その日はさいあくでした...

マクミランさんは僕のヒーローアカデミアを見る My never-ending quest of watching the new season of Boku no Hero Academia continues! I'm honestly not sure how many episodes are in this season, but I believe 24 episodes are the standard for a single season of TV anime. For a shonen anime, which is usually all about fights or sports, the current school festival arc is a little slow... However, the climax of the arc does have a pretty intense battle, so I am looking forward to that. In this episode, which was more comedy/plot focused, hero class 1-A decides their class will hold a music/dance performance in order to entertain all the students throughout the school. They have Jiro teach everyone the music, and Mina teach everyone the dance. Then, Mirio and Deku visit the recovering Eri, and invite her to visit the festival to make her feel better after the yakuza battle. Finally, the villains for this arc: Gentle Criminal and La Brava, who gained their fame from posting videos of them committing crime onl...

パンプキンケーキの作り方 それはぼくの大好きなデサートだからパンプキンケーキの作り方について書こうと思います。 材料： パンプキンのピューレ、こむぎこ、さとう、バター、たまご、ベーキングパウダー 作り方： 1.まず、ベーキングパウダーとこむぎこをボウルに入れてまぜます。 2.つぎに、ミキサーでたまごし、さとうし、バターし、パンプキンのピューレをまぜます。 3.ベーキングパウダーとこむぎこを入れたボウルにケーキバッターをかけてまぜます。 4.バッターをベーキングパンにかけて、ベーキングパンをオーブンに入れます。 5.350度のかしで、30分間焼きます。 6.オーブンからケーキを取り出して切ります。 できあがり、でもクリームチーズのフロスティングをかけると味がよくなります！

マクミランさんは僕のヒーローアカデミアを見る I am once again watching the new season of Boku no Hero Academia, and a new story arc has started. I read the manga, and I know this arc is somewhat infamous for being "filler", or in other words, not very important to the story overall. In this arc, Deku's and his classmates prepare for their school festival, while his rivals Shouto and Bakugo attend a remedial class to obtain their provisional hero licenses. This episode focused on Shouto and Bakugo as they worked with other students  in their remedial training. They are tasked with reigning in a group of unruly kindergarteners, and they struggle a lot. The episode ends on a cliff-hanger where the children start to attack them with their quirks (super powers)! The school culture festival is a very Japanese event, and there really is no comparison with in United States. Since U.S. high schools do not have "classes" like Japanese schools do (where you have the same group of students...

たいこ 昨日のばん、ノートルダムの日本語プログラムにたいこのパフォーマンスを見に行きました。 とてもおもしろいし、たのしいし、パフォーマンスが好きでした。 パフォーマンスでは、多くの日本語の学生とすべての日本語の先生を見ました。 私はたいこのパフォーマンスに行ったことがなかったので、おんがくかが歌を歌い、ふえを使ったときにびっくりしました。 また、パフォーマンスにおんがくかがよく日本語でよんでいるものを知りたいです。 そして、パフォーマンスは後で食べ物はおいしかったです... べつのたいこのパフォーマンスに行きたいです。

マクミランさんは僕のヒーローアカデミアを見る This week I am still continuing to watch the latest season of Boku no Hero Academia. This week saw the conclusion to the current arc, with Deku defeating Chisaki and saving Eri from him. This arc was very exciting, and I was glad to see it finally animated after reading the weekly manga. I thought the studio did a really good job in making the fights interesting. In this episode, the heroes who were injured fighting the yakuza were saved, and ended up recovering in the hospital. While Eri was saved and the yakuza defeated, not everything ended happily. Mirio still cannot recover his quirk, and the drug that affected him ended up being stolen from the police by the League of Villains! Most importantly, is that Sir Nighteye, who had mentored Mirio and Deku, died from his wounds at the end of the episode. It was a very sad scene and was animated in a tear-jerking way! Ultimately, I am very impressed with the season so far. I have been trying lately to t...

マクミランさんは僕のヒーローアカデミアを見る This week I continued in my watching of Boku no Hero Academia season 4. In the episode I watched, the hero-police invasion of a Yakuza compound began, and many heroes began fighting the mobsters. This episode in particular focused on one of UA's (the hero academy which the main character attends) top 3 students: Amajiki Tamaki (hero name: Suneater). His "quirk" (superpower) is that he can morph his body into whatever he eats to gain a variety of different powers. For example, if he eats takoyaki, he will gain the power to create octopus tentacles or if he eats clams he will gain the ability to make shells. The episode focused on both Suneater's struggle to overcome his nervousness and anxiety with the help of his friend as well as on a battle he is currently fighting with three powerful Yakuza members. The fight was really well animated and exciting, so I am definitely looking foward to the rest of the season. I noticed a lot of nods to Jap...

日本の道や住所と鉄道と交通 今週は日本の住所と交通について読みました。 日本ではアメリカよりも違うので、面白かったです。 日本の住所はとてもむずかしいと思います。。。 でも、GPSは住所を見つけやすくします。 In America, trains are primarily used for transporting cargo, but in Japan, transport of people is much more common. けれども、"Private railroad companies" は両国で共通です。 だから、両国にはいい鉄道があります。 そして、多くの違いもあります。 このトピックは本当に面白いですね！

マクミランさんは僕のヒーローアカデミアを見る This week I continued watching the latest season of the popular shonen series My Hero Academia. The plot of this season revolves around a Yakuza branch family selling a weaponized drug that can destroy the "quirks", or superpowers, of heroes entirely. The Yakuza leader, Chisaki, has an extremely powerful destruction quirk and is using his young adopted daughter's quirk to manufacture the drug. Since his daughter, Eri, is being held against her will, and Deku had an opportunity to save her earlier, he feels at fault for not helping at the time. This leads into this episode's plot, which is a meeting of many heroes and some of Deku's classmates to discuss the plan of action for dealing with the dangerous group. The heroes agree to conduct a surveillance operation to locate the group's hideout, then to perform a raid with the help of the police. I really enjoyed this arc when I read the manga, so I am looking forward to how they animat...

アドバイス ええ〜、ちょっと大変ですね。 たぶん、ホストファミリーのお母さんと問題について話しなければならないと思います。 いいが、ホストファミリーのお母さんに問題を伝えた方がいいですよ。 私だったら、ホストファミリーのお母さんに家事はするけどもっとたのしい時間をほしんです。 それは話したらどうですか？ アドバイスは良かったですか？

マクミランさんは バーチャルユーチューバー を見る This week I watched a vtuber named Sakura Miko and her vtuber friends compete with each other in Mario Kart. A vtuber (short for virtual youtuber) is an internet personality that is represented by a voice actress and computer generated (anime style) avatar. This is a relatively new trend even in Japan, but many vtubers, like Kizuna Ai have hundreds of thousands of followers. Many vtubers do short topical videos and play video games (like Miko). The appeal, I think, is similar to Japanese idols, and many vtubers fashion themselves in that image. I was introduced to Miko's group "Hololive" by a person I know who is a huge fan. I watched a live stream on Miko's youtube channel of her and other vtubers competing fiercely in Mario Kart. From what I could tell, there was a lot of trash talking going on. Though Miko was doing well, at one point her console crashed and she couldn't play anymore! However, the livestream was very enjoyable t...

仕事がほしい 長い時、ぼくはしょうらい何になりたいかわからなかった。 中学校では、ぼくは多くのおもしろいクラスをとることができませんでした。 けれども、高校ではより多くのクラスをとることができ、べんごしになりたいときめました。べんごしになるためには、たくさん勉強しなければなりません。 いつかいいべんごしになりたいです！

マクミランさんは僕のヒーローアカデミアを見る This week I watched an episode of the very popular shonen series "My Hero Academia" which just entered its 4th season. I have been reading the manga since its first chapter in Weekly Shonen Jump, and was excited years ago when the anime started. It is a long running series, and even at season 4 the anime is still a ways behind the manga, but i am excited to see it adapted for TV. The plot of the series is set in a world of heroes where almost everyone has superpowers. However the main protagonist Izuku Midoriya does not have a power but wants to become a hero. After receiving the power of the strongest hero All Might, Izuku (whose hero name is Deku) enrolls in an elite superhero training high school where he has to fight villains and get along with his classmates. In the episode I watched Izuku works to be accepted by the hero Sir Nighteye (who was once All Might's sidekick) so he can participate in a work-study with a real hero. He is initia...