Application Due Date for April Starting
11/26/2012
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Hello, I am Yoshi from NILS Japanese language school. As you can see on our website, we are currently accepting applications for the April 2013 Session. Its application due date is December 7th, 2012. If you are interested in learning Japanese language with us at NILS in Japan, please send us an inquiry first. We will answer all of your questions about the school, the program and the life in J…
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勤労感謝の日
11/22/2012
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Hello, I am Yoshi from NILS Japanese language school. Today's topic is the national holiday in Japan, Kinrokansha-no-hi 勤労感謝の日 or the Labor Thanksgiving Day. This holiday is celebrated on November 23 every year. It is a day to reaffirm the importance of labor and express gratitude to the working people. Originally, this day was called "Niiname-sai 新嘗祭" or the Harvest Festival, and was one of t…
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Japanese Nobel Prize Winners #6
11/21/2012
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Hello, I am Yoshi from NILS Japanese language school. Today's topic is Japanese Nobel Prize winners.
[Kobayashi Makoto 小林誠 & Masukawa Toshihide 益川敏英／Phisics, 2008]Kobayashi and Masukawa shared the prize. They expanded on Nambu's model and theorized that six types of quarks would need to have existed since the very beginning of the universe in order to adequately explain CP violation.
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七五三
11/15/2012
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Hello, I am Yoshi from NILS Japanese language school. Today's topic is one of the traditional annual events, shichi go san 七五三 or Seven-five-three cerebration. The word shichi, go and san literally mean seven, five and three respectively. These numbers represent the age of children. The seven-five-three celebration is conducted for girls at the age of three and seven, and boys at the age of th…
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Let’s learn Japanese language: Lesson 18-(2)
11/09/2012
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Hello, I am Yoshi from NILS Japanese language school. Today, we learn one of the sentence patterns using the "verb dictionary form" we learned in Lesson 18-(1).
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Let’s learn Japanese language: Lesson 18-(1)
11/07/2012
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Hello, I am Yoshi from NILS Japanese language school. We start a new lesson today.
[New verbs]
できます Group II： be able to, can
あらいます／洗います Group I： wash
ひきます／弾きます Group I： play (stringed instrument or piano, etc.)
うたいます／歌います Group I： sing
あつめます／集めます Group II： collect, gather
すてます／捨てます Group II： throw away
かえます／換えます Group II： exchange
うんてんします／運転します Group III： drive
よやくします／予約します Group III： …
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Work Permit
11/05/2012
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Hello, I am Yoshi from NILS Japanese language school. Today's topic is "work permit."
New students arrived in Japan last month, and they are getting used to a new life in Japan. Now, their language skills are also getting better, so they are going to get a work permit soon. But at first, they have to pass the test given by the school to check their basic language skills. At most of the work p…
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文化の日 Culture Day
11/02/2012
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Hello, I am Yoshi from NILS Japanese language school. Today's topic is the national holiday in Japan, Bunka no hi 文化の日.
November 3rd was ofiginally celebrated as the Meiji emperor's birthday. And it was also on this day that the Japanese Constitution was proclaimed. To commemorate both events, this day was established as the national holiday Bunka no hi, dedicated to "the love of freedom, peac…
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こたつ
11/01/2012
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Hello, I am Yoshi from NILS Japanese language school. It is getting cold here in Fukuoka. There are some heating appareatus, but we introduce Kotatsu こたつ today.
The kotatsu is a kind of heater to warm hte lower body, mainly the legs and feet. It is made up of a low table with a quilted coverlet. A tabel top is usually put over the top. In the old days, charcoal was used as a heat source, but…
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