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下記のサイトは日本語を学んでいる方にとって役に立つかな。

http://www.aozora.gr.jp/

[Project Gutenberg]みたいな著作権(copyright)の消滅した日本語の作品バーチュアル図書館だ。　最近、僕は「太宰治」の作品を読もうとしていた。。。ちょっと難しいけどさぁ。。。><

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ブログは変更中！

Playing with templates and layout features...expect wobbliness for a while!

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Youtube videos ahoy!

An understanding of Japanese would be beneficial for this one...(parts are NSFW)



...but not this! Ah, it really captures the lighter, happy-go-lucky side of violence against women in a way that only the Japanese can. However, I contend you to get "I was robbed by two men" out of your head before tomorrow...



And bugger me if that guy at the end doesn't look like Hunter S. Thompson. Or a tortoise.

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Blog resurrection GO! (kinda)

OK...you are witnesses...at the birth...of Andy's Jap Blog Mk. II. On the bass...Derek Smalls (wait, that's over-stretching the reference somewhat)

MORE posts! MORE random inanity! MORE posts no-one will read!! MORE complete and utter drivel hoisted upon an uncaring online populace! MORE I say!!!

Yes, this blog has sorta died on it's ass since I started my new job & new life in Nagoya...largely because I deem my everyday life unworthy on documentation. Nevertheless! I shall endeavour to update this sucker at least once a week.

Part of the reason is...my Japanese sucks...partially due to my complacency and laziness...but largely coz I'm dumb...anyway long rant short I want to start writing blog entries in Japanese again, for the practice, to force myself to think in Japanese and stop relying on the stuff I already know...so, we'll see what transpires there. Lots and lots of horrible, broken Japanese is my guess.

Another part of the reason is that sometimes I feel I need to force myself to appreciate the uniqueness of my situation, and that it is a situation many (no doubt more deserving) others would be very happy to be in...so I wanna take a closer look at the minutiae of my daily life...and bore you all with it! Yay!

...and I'm noticing the amount of times I've forced myself to use the phrase "force myself to do XYZ" in this post...that can't be good, can it?

Oh well...let's do!

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