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Japanese class

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-eight years and a 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

Satire is tragedy plus time. You give it enough time, the public, the reviewers will allow you to satirize it. Which is rather ridiculous, when you think about it.

—Lenny Bruce