On Sunday night, January 6th, I invited two of my friends to a Yakitori restaurant.They were from Montreal, Canada.One of them just had come to Japan on December 27th last year, for doing sightseeing in Japan for the first time.He asked me

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I happened to get to know the NOVA Level-1 community on mixi.There has been only one or two level-1 students in former NOVA.Mr.T is a famous student as he is only one level-1 student in Kanto area.I'd like to explain about the criterion of

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今日（もう１日過ぎてますが）の日記は日本語です。NOVA成城のトピックに、１月２日、３日の日記をネイティヴに直してもらったものをお書き込みました。前置詞、冠詞、そのほか言い回しなど、まだまだミスがいっぱいです。どうぞ英語学習の参考にしてください

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The Shinto rite of purification at the Meiji jingu was quite impressive with me.First of all we have to apply a paper, filling in the form in writing, what kind of purification we ask for.The charge for a purification is different depend o

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It's time to make a New Year's resolution.What are your New Year's resolution?For me to keep this diarly until the end of this year.In addition I will start to learn English at NOVA again, so I should keep going to VOICE every weekend.Do yo

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Yo-Yo-Ma is one of the greatest cellists in the world.When I read the Yo-Yo's CD booklet I was very impressed with his answer to a music critic interviewer.The question was "Yo-Yo, when you listen to a recording of great musicians performi

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I read an article about one of Japanese living author Miyuki Miyabe whose many books have been translated into English.In the article a literacy critic Masayoshi Shirakawa said "Murakami's books show an idealized Tokyo, one people long for.

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Haruki Murakami himself hasn't worked for a company.After his graduate of the university he started to run a jazz cafe in Sendagaya Tokyo with his wife.Therefore it can be said Murakami dosen't know a real life of a salaried man.In his book

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Whenever I read Murakami's book I feel something in common between us.To give an actual example, a kind of standoffish attitude to everything.In other words, keeping some distance from everything.We were born in the same year.We are so call

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Today I took one of my Australian friends and her family to a Japanese kaiseki restaurant.Here is today's menu.MENU1. GOMA DOFU (Sesame Soybean Curd) (Grilled white sesame mixed with arrowroot starch, water, kneading and boiling, then co

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It sounds a bit reckless but I'd like to try to write an essay about Haruki Murakami in English in the serial form on this site.My first impression of one of Murakami's books,which was translated in English, was how his style was suitable

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It was greatly shocked for me when NOVA went bankrupt last year.I had taken lessons and participated Voice for long time at NOVA SEIJO.Voice was a chat room for the teachers and the students. After the incident, Nagoya based company G-commu

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Yesterday and today channel 8 Fuji TV rebroadcasted one of it's popular TV drama series "Nodame Cantabire".The drama is based on the best seller comic book.The drama is a romatic comedy about two musical school students,a guy,Chiaki, who is

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