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Japanese class

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Tokyo, 2009.01.20

My first class went well. I'm signing my life away tomorrow. It's actually only two months, since I missed the first two weeks (more or less), and it's only three hours a day. But I think that that's probably going to be about as much as I can manage, as my homework took an hour when I got home.

One of the things we learned today was how to say "I can do (an activity)", which leads to variants like "at such and such a place I can do (an activity)" and "with such and such a tool I can do (an activity)".

rand()m quote

The nuclear arms race is like two sworn enemies standing waist deep in gasoline, one with three matches, the other with five.

—Carl Sagan