Обожаю Ричарда из GenkiJapan xDDD

Q: If hachi is number eight and bee, how do you tell the difference between the translations? – D

A: Very good question! And this is the main reason that kanji is still around, you tell the difference because they have difference kanji! 八 (8) or 蜂 (bee).

Now in everyday conversation you can tell that someone isn’t saying “I’d like bee pints of beer please” or “Wow, I just got stung by an eight!” but in science and other fields it can get very confusing and hence kanji is still important as it’s very often the best way to avoid any confusion.

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Признавайтесь!

у кого хоть частями совпадает?

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С опозданием.

Поздравляю с 8 марта!!!
３月８日おめでとうございます！～～♥♥
Happy the 8th of March!!!
Sveikinu su kovo 8-ąja!!!

До обеда я отдыхала. Потом работала и училась..
昼御飯まで、リラックスをしました。あとで、働きました。そして、勉強しました。
I've been resting all morning until afternoon. Then I had to work and study.
Aš ilsėjausi visą rytą iki pietų. O poto dirbau ir mokiausi.

Получила много поздравлений, конфет и цветов. Спасибо!!! Я счастлива!!!
今日おめでとうとお菓子と花がたくさん貰いました。　どうもありがとうございました！　楽しかった！！！～～♥
I received a lot of congratulations, sweets and flowers. Thank you so much! I am sooo happy!!!
Gavau daug sveikinimų, saldainių bei gėlių. Ačiū labai! Aš tokia laiminga!!!

Еще! もっと！～　More! Dar!

Meanwhile,
I have a midterm test on Thursday ... I can't believe it's already happening... And the exam is veeeryy soon.. and I am not extraordinary prepared yet
so it means: study study study study!!!!!!!!

Короче говоря.. надо дописать письмо и идти спать. и завтра заниматься весь день.
Хочу пожаловаться- уже недоело( некогда полениться прям. то работа, то учеба... что такое?! -_-

Еще раз, с праздником!
и.. спокойной ночи.

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Пришло письмо из Манчестера! йей -)))

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Доброе утро!!!

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仕事と勉強。

На этих выходных работаю
На ногах с 9 утра...

Щас хоть работы немного, так домашку по японскому делаю... в понедельник урок-)
надо учиииить много новых слов(

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Галкин

Сегодня на его концерте была.

Ваще... он молодец) харизма у него хороша) и вообще, мне понравилось).

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Your car is Japanese. Your vodka is Russian. Your pizza is Italian. Your kebab is Turkish. Your democracy is Greek. Your coffee is Brazilian. Your movies are American. Your tea is Tamil. Your shirt is Indian. Your oil is Saudi Arabian. Your electronics are Chinese. Your numbers Arabic, your letters Latin. And you complain that your neighbour is an immigrant? Pull yourself together!

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Supernatural season 3 final

Только закончила смотреть-) блин, на таком интересном моменте, каки, закончили!!!
теперь придется скачивать первую серию 4 сезона, чтобы удовлетворить свое любопытство!

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Leeds

Since they are first, who accepted me, and started providing me information, I decided to do some research on them.
So this post will be only about Leeds and its University. I am going to update it from time to time.
hmm, I also thought, this info might be interesting for you too.

What is in the brochure?
Some nice photos. Some pieces of advice. Some things to consider.

What do they include in my apartments rent?
★Energy costs (heating, lighting, and hot water);
★Insurance, to cover all my belongings;
★Internet access;
★Edge Club sports membership: swimming pool, indoor sports halls, 200 station fitness suite, 3 dedicated class studios, squash courts, climbing wall, outdoor pitches. (WOW!!!)
Is this going to be studying or a vacation? xD

I am overexcited so far!!! All I need, is to pass IELTS exam with an overall band score of 7.0...

Tomorrow I am going to locate their websites to do some more research.

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University of Leeds прислали мне Accommodation brochure по почте-)

I am overexcited

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ну что...
с приходом весны - перехожу на сыроедение. надеюсь, в шкелета не превращусь.

www.vitamarg.com/health/syroedenie/862-recepti-...

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Закрытая запись, не предназначенная для публичного просмотра

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Universities of the UK

I was accpeted to the University of Mancehster. Unconditionally. It means that I can agree and send documents at any time before the deadline.
Woow... Meanwhile, Leeds asks me to pass the IELTS exam with an overall band - 7.0 (which is quite a big deal)
Hmm but there is still no answer from Edinburgh.

Which should I choose?...

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об стену.

01.03.2011 в 17:04

Пишет  sir Arthur:

The Chaos (pronunciation training)
Well, my friends... Attention, please and try to concentrate now . First of all I'll explain what means this text (see below). So... fasten your seat belts! ))

1. Bold show words that compare to one or more other words. Underline words are those that intermediate speakers of English will want to know.
2. The numbers in [ ] indicate the place in the audio file.

And don't ask me where I found it. I don't remember . And if you could only know how I'm tired to mark all these words!

P.S. Sorry for my mistakes (correct me please if you wish)



Dearest creature in creation (1)
Studying English pronunciation,
I will teach you in my verse
Sounds like corpse, corps, horse and worse.

I will keep you, Susy, busy,
Make your head with heat grow dizzy;
Tear in eye, your dress you'll tear;
Queer, fair seer, hear my prayer.

Pray, console your loving poet,
Make my coat look new, dear, sew it!
Just compare heart, hear and heard,
Dies and diet, lord and word. [0:35] (2)

Sword and sward, retain and Britain
(Mind the latter how it's written).
Made has not the sound of bade,
Say­said, pay­paid, laid but plaid.

Now I surely will not plague you
With such words as vague and ague,
But be careful how you speak,
Say: gush, bush, steak, streak, break, bleak,

Previous, precious, fuchsia, via
Recipe, pipe, studding­-sail, choir;
Woven, oven, how and low,
sсriрt, receipt, shoe, poem, toe. [1:11]

Say, expecting fraud and trickery:
Daughter, laughter and Terpsichore,
Branch, ranch, measles, topsails, aisles,
Missiles, similes, reviles.


Wholly, holly, signal, signing,
Same, examining, but mining,
Scholar, vicar, and cigar,
Solar, mica, war and far.

From "desire": desirable­-admirable from
"admire",
Lumber, plumber, bier, but brier,
Topsham, brougham, renown, but known,
Knowledge, done, lone, gone, none, tone,[1:51]

One, anemone, Balmoral,
Kitchen, lichen, laundry, laurel.
Gertrude, German, wind and wind,
Beau, kind, kindred, queue, mankind,

Tortoise, turquoise, chamois­-leather,
Reading, Reading, heathen, heather.
This phonetic labyrinth
Gives moss, gross, brook, brooch, ninth,
plinth.

Have you ever yet endeavoured
To pronounce revered and severed,
Demon, lemon, ghoul, foul, soul,
Peter, petrol and patrol? [2:29]

Billet does not end like ballet;
Bouquet, wallet, mallet, chalet.
Blood and flood are not like food,
Nor is mould like should and would.

Banquet is not nearly parquet,
Which exactly rhymes with khaki.
Discount, viscount, load and broad,
Toward, to forward, to reward,

Ricocheted and crocheting, croquet?
Right! Your pronunciation's OK.
Rounded, wounded, grieve and sieve,
Friend and fiend, alive and live. [3:06]

Is your r correct in higher?
Keats asserts it rhymes Thalia.
Hugh, but hug, and hood, but hoot,
Buoyant, minute, but minute.

Say abscission with precision,
Now: position and transition;
Would it tally with my rhyme
If I mentioned paradigm?

Twopence, threepence, tease are easy,
But cease, crease, grease and greasy?
Cornice, nice, valise, revise,
Rabies, but lullabies. [3:43]

Of such puzzling words as nauseous,
Rhyming well with cautious, tortious,
You'll envelop lists, I hope,
In a linen envelope.

Would you like some more? You'll have it!
Affidavit, David, davit.
To abjure, to perjure. Sheik
Does not sound like Czech but ache.

Liberty, library, heave and heaven,
Rachel, loch, moustache, eleven.
We say hallowed, but allowed,
People, leopard, towed but vowed. [4:18]

Mark the difference, moreover,
Between mover, plover, Dover.
Leeches, breeches, wise, precise,
Chalice, but police and lice,

Camel, constable, unstable,
Principle, disciple, label.
Petal, penal, and canal,
Wait, surmise, plait, promise, pal,

Suit, suite, ruin. Circuit, conduit
Rhyme with "shirk it" and "beyond it",
But it is not hard to tell
Why it's pall, mall, but Pall Mall. [4:55]

Muscle, muscular, gaol, iron,
Timber, climber, bullion, lion,
Worm and storm, chaise, chaos, chair,
Senator, spectator, mayor,

Ivy, privy, famous; clamour
Has the a of drachm and hammer.
Pussy, hussy and possess,
Desert, but desert, address.

Golf, wolf, countenance, lieutenants
Hoist in lieu of flags left pennants.
Courier, courtier, tomb, bomb, comb,
Cow, but Cowper, some and home. [5:34]

"Solder, soldier! Blood is thicker",
Quoth he, "than liqueur or liquor",
Making, it is sad but true,
In bravado, much ado.

Stranger does not rhyme with anger,
Neither does devour with clangour.
Pilot, pivot, gaunt, but aunt,
Font, front, wont, want, grand and grant.

Arsenic, specific, scenic,
Relic, rhetoric, hygienic.
Gooseberry, goose, and close, but close,
Paradise, rise, rose, and dose. [6:13]

Say inveigh, neigh, but inveigle,
Make the latter rhyme with eagle.
Mind! Meandering but mean,
Valentine and magazine.

And I bet you, dear, a penny,
You say mani­-(fold) like many,
Which is wrong. Say rapier, pier,
Tier (one who ties), but tier.

Arch, archangel; pray, does erring
Rhyme with herring or with stirring?
Prison, bison, treasure trove,
Treason, hover, cover, cove, [6:49]

Perseverance, severance. Ribald
Rhymes (but piebald doesn't) with nibbled.
Phaeton, paean, gnat, ghat, gnaw,
Lien, psychic, shone, bone, pshaw.

Don't be down, my own, but rough it,
And distinguish buffet, buffet;
Brood, stood, roof, rook, school, wool, boon,
Worcester, Boleyn, to impugn.

Say in sounds correct and sterling
Hearse, hear, hearken, year and yearling.
Evil, devil, mezzotint,
Mind the z! (A gentle hint.) [7:32]

Now you need not pay attention
To such sounds as I don't mention,
Sounds like pores, pause, pours and paws,
Rhyming with the pronoun yours;

Nor are proper names included,
Though I often heard, as you did,
Funny rhymes to unicorn,
Yes, you know them, Vaughan and
Strachan.

No, my maiden, coy and comely,
I don't want to speak of Cholmondeley.
No. Yet Froude compared with proud
Is no better than McLeod. [8:05]

But mind trivial and vial,
Tripod, menial, denial,
Troll and trolley, realm and ream,
Schedule, mischief, schism, and scheme.

Argil, gill, Argyll, gill. Surely
May be made to rhyme with Raleigh,
But you're not supposed to say
Piquet rhymes with sobriquet.

Had this invalid invalid
Worthless documents? How pallid,
How uncouth he, couchant, looked,
When for Portsmouth I had booked! [8:39]

Zeus, Thebes, Thales, Aphrodite,
Paramour, enamoured, flighty,
Episodes, antipodes,
Acquiesce, and obsequies.

Please don't monkey with the geyser,
Don't peel 'taters with my razor,
Rather say in accents pure:
Nature, stature and mature.

Pious, impious, limb, climb, glumly,
Worsted, worsted, crumbly, dumbly,
Conquer, conquest, vase, phase, fan,
Wan, sedan and artisan. [9:14]

The th will surely trouble you
More than r, ch or w.
Say then these phonetic gems:
Thomas, thyme, Theresa, Thames.

Thompson, Chatham, Waltham, Streatham,
There are more but I forget 'em­-
Wait! I've got it: Anthony,
Lighten your anxiety.

The archaic word albeit
Does not rhyme with eight-­you see it;
With and forthwith, one has voice,
One has not, you make your choice. [9:45]

Shoes, goes, does. Now first say: finger;
Then say: singer, ginger, linger.
Real, zeal, mauve, gauze and gauge,
Marriage, foliage, mirage, age,

Hero, heron, query, very,
Parry, tarry, fury, bury,
Dost, lost, post, and doth, cloth, loth,
Job, Job, blossom, bosom, oath.

Faugh, oppugnant, keen oppugners,
Bowing, bowing, banjo­-tuners
Holm you know, but noes, canoes,
Puisne, truism, use, to use? [10:27]

Though the difference seems little,
We say actual, but victual,
Seat, sweat, chaste, caste, Leigh, eight,
height,
Put, nut, granite, and unite.

Reefer does not rhyme with deafer,
Feoffer does, and zephyr, heifer.
Dull, bull, Geoffrey, George, ate, late,
Hint, pint, senate, but sedate.

Gaelic, Arabic, pacific,
Science, conscience, scientific;
Tour, but our, dour, succour, four,
Gas, alas, and Arkansas. [11:07]

Say manoeuvre, yacht and vomit,
Next omit, which differs from it
Bona fide, alibi
Gyrate, dowry and awry.

Sea, idea, guinea, area,
Psalm, Maria, but malaria.
Youth, south, southern, cleanse and clean,
Doctrine, turpentine, marine.

Compare alien with Italian,
Dandelion with battalion,
Rally with ally; yea, ye,
Eye, I, ay, aye, whey, key, quay! [11:43]

Say aver, but ever, fever,
Neither, leisure, skein, receiver.
Never guess­it is not safe,
We say calves, valves, half, but Ralf.

Starry, granary, canary,
Crevice, but device, and eyrie,
Face, but preface, then grimace,
Phlegm, phlegmatic, ass, glass, bass.

Bass, large, target, gin, give, verging,
Ought, oust, joust, and scour, but scourging;
Ear, but earn; and ere and tear
Do not rhyme with here but heir. [12:24]

Mind the o of off and often
Which may be pronounced as orphan,
With the sound of saw and sauce;
Also soft, lost, cloth and cross.

Pudding, puddle, putting. Putting?
Yes: at golf it rhymes with shutting.
Respite, spite, consent, resent.
Liable, but Parliament.

Seven is right, but so is even,
Hyphen, roughen, nephew, Stephen,
Monkey, donkey, clerk and jerk,
Asp, grasp, wasp, demesne, cork, work. [13:03]

A of valour, vapid vapour,
S of news (compare newspaper),
G of gibbet, gibbon, gist,
I of antichrist and grist,

Differ like diverse and divers,
Rivers, strivers, shivers, fivers.
Once, but nonce, toll, doll, but roll,
Polish, Polish, poll and poll.

Pronunciation-­think of Psyche!­ -
Is a paling, stout and spiky.
Won't it make you lose your wits
Writing groats and saying "grits"? [13:40]

It's a dark abyss or tunnel
Strewn with stones like rowlock, gunwale,
Islington, and Isle of Wight,
Housewife, verdict and indict.

Don't you think so, reader, rather,
Saying lather, bather, father?
Finally, which rhymes with enough,
Though, through, bough, cough, hough,
sough, tough?

Hiccough has the sound of sup...
My advice is: GIVE IT UP! [14:11]

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明日、春が来たら

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Change. If you cannot find reasons to be free, invent them.
And think seriously of finding another activity that is more like what you expect from life, more dignified, more human.

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флешмоб?

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>:))))

28.02.2011 в 16:22

Пишет  sir Arthur:

The Booby-traps of English Spelling
Думаю и надеюсь, что нижеследующее стихотворение поможет многим преодолеть некоторые подводные камни в английском.

I think you all already know
Of tough and bough and cough and dough,
Some may be baffled, but not you
By hiccough, thorough, tough and through.
Well done! And now you wish, perhaps,
To learn of less familiar traps?
Beware of heard, a dreadful word
That looks like beard and sounds like bird,
And bread; it's said like bed, not bead -
Misleading, isn't it, indeed!
Watch out for meat and great and threat -
They rhyme with suite and straight and debt.
A moth is not a moth in mother,
Nor both in bother or in brother.
And here is not a match for there,
Nor dear and fear for bear and pear.
And do and go and said and paid.
And close and come and Rome and some.
Just wait! The list has not been made.
A dreadful language? Every bit! So what's the use of learning it?
No learner would emerge alive!
Don't be afraid! You will survive.
I spoke it at the age of five!

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It looks weird :D

Сегодня был урок японского. Классно.
今日は日本語のレッスンでした。　楽しかった。
I had the Japanese lesson today, it was fun.
Šiandien buvo japonų kalbos pamoka.

Уже процентов на 45% понимаю язык. Вот только с кандзи пока сложнее.
日本語がだいたい分かりますが、漢字は少し難しいです。
I think I understand the language, but I still have some trouble with Kanji.
Aš jau maždaug suprantu kalbą, tačiau dar gana sunkiai mokausi Kandži.

Но это терпимо)
でも、大丈夫です。
But it's going to be fine.
Bet viskas bus gerai.

После урока пару часов отдохнула..
レッスンのあとでリラックスをしました、
After the lesson I had some rest.
Po pamokos aš pailsėjau.

Щас буду готовиться к ИЕЛТС.
今はIELTSの勉強しています。
And now I am going to study for the coming IELTS exam.
Tuoj pradėsiu mokytis, ruoštis IELTS egzaminui.

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Завтра уже весна.
明日からは春です！！！
It is already Spring tomorrow!
O rytoj jau pavasaris! ))