July 2019
Hiro Kato talks about cars
I invited Hiro Kato to talk about cars on my program. He has been a fan of cars since he was small. He also has been speaking English for the longest time, though he lives in Japan. He recently visited the US and spoke with Japanese car enthusiasts. According to him, when a Japanese car […]
発音SPOT CHECKをしてみた
I sometimes use the word "spot check" at work. When we write a report and have a lot of tables in it, we want to make sure that numbers are all correct. I ask someone to take a look and see if everything looks correct. I may ask someone to do a spot-check, which means […]
Response to a Hiroshimaben question
Roman saw my video on Hiroshimaben and asked me this: "Can you expand a little more on "聞く becomes 聞いとる, 歩く becomes 歩きょる", or at least provide more examples? In standard Japanese, the rule that applies to these two words is the same: "ku" in the end becomes "ite[i]ru", in 100% of the words. Looks […]