The most prominent feature of this site is the notation. We have adopted a style of writing that arranges Japanese above English, or, in a few cases, both side by side. We do this because we believe it is the best style for people who want to know and learn a foreign language. We believe that English speakers who wish to learn Japanese will eventually understand Japanese if they can view Japanese sentences from the perspective of English, a language they understand. And vice versa, Japanese speakers who want to learn English will eventually understand English if they can view English sentences from the perspective of Japanese, a native language of their own.
I think it has become somewhat clear that a blog is not an archive, not a book, not a warehouse, not a container, not a folder, not a souvenir, not a corporate website, but actually just this. That's why I set up these articles. In essence, if I just do this, it's a blog. I was born in the ancient Showa period, so it's hard to get my head around.
After a certain amount of time, it will be moved to the archive. The archives are the longer articles with their respective titles. It will be added at the end or at the beginning.
I thought that if nothing comes up for a few days, it might cause you some concern, so I decided to write in a casual tone so that I can quickly write about my recent health condition.
チャットボットと遊んでみたよ！
Played with Chatbots！
チャットボットと会話するとき、なにかの拍子で面白くなることがあるため、結果を共有したいと思った。
I wanted to share the results of a conversation with chatbots, as it can get interesting at some point.
About my childhood in Ashikaga, a city that has become a distant memory, taking care to be as objective and fair as possible without being vulgar. I write in English so that I can write about things that would be embarrassing in Japanese. If I receive a complaint from a model, I will rewrite it. In the case of people who are already deceased, such as my parents, I will ask them to give up.
足利
Ashikaga
The City of Ashikagaの日本語版。これまでnoteに場所をお借りして掲載していたが、今回サイトを増強するために移転した。
The Japanese version of The City of Ashikaga. We have been borrowing a place to post it on NOTE, but have now moved here to augment the site.
There will be more articles about overcoming illnesses, taking supplements, performing exercises, using editors, English, and so on. Mutekatsu-ryu is the style of Bokuden Tsukahara, who tried to survive by tact and wisdom, avoiding the use of force as much as possible.
This is a major rewrite of a series of articles I wrote for a year for a magazine called "High School English Studies" published by Kenkyusha Publishing Co. But I can't tackle with doing so, and I'm a liar. Sorry.
This book, originally published by Kenkyusha Publishing, attempts to clarify the shape of English sentences by introducing applied forms called developmental form to the five sentence patterns concept.
This was published as an e-mail magazine from "Magmag" at the time of the Great Recession of the Heisei era. In addition to the beginner's edition, an advanced edition is also planned for the future. I am adding little by little as quotes of the day.
This section contains rules and contact methods for the contact of the readers and the site operator. There is a privacy policy, terms of use, and a contact form. To get in contact, use e-mail.
広告
Advertisements
今のところ不調。サイト運営と我が家の家計のために広告を載せようとしたが、うまくいっていない。
For the operation of the site and our family's finances, we wanted to place advertisements on the site as an alternative means of receiving money from you. But it doesn't work now. Thank you for your understanding and cooperation.
寄付
寄付はいつでも歓迎。よろしくお願いします。
コンテンツについて
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本記事。
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最上階の☰ The Uppermost Hamburger やっと完成した貴重なハンバーガーメニュー。現在このマークは廃止。
Reverso (AI翻訳/例文/文法/同義語/英米2種類の発音) Weblio(辞典/例文/類語/英会話/AI?発音) grammarly(文法/文体/明解度チェック) DeepL(AI翻訳) Google Translate(AI翻訳米発音 New York Times First Chapters(本の第1章) BBC News World(ワールドニュース) Gemini(AIによるチャットと生成) ChatGPT(AIによるチャットと生成) The Saturday Evening Post(隔月発行の雑誌・昔はもっと頻繁に発行されていた) mouse dictionary (ブラウザで辞書引き・weblioにもポップアップ辞書がある)
When I was working on dictionaries and textbooks for Shogakukan, I asked a man there about the possibility of publishing my Cool Quotes. He immediately replied that it would be difficult for a publisher to put forth such a plan due to copyright issues. I was thinking of the Quotation books published by Penguin Books and others, and thought that it would not cost much money because the contents consisted of a few words, but from the way he immediately replied, I judged that it would be impossible. Perhaps the procedure is much complicated.
When quotations are used to study foreign languages, the original texts have to be there. If you quote even a little bit, then the issue of copyright always comes up. For lyrics, many websites have been designed to make it impossible to copy them. But this is too late. Much earlier, at the time they were put up, the copyright issue already had begun.
Copyright is the author's right and should be protected. However, on the other hand, if the free use of the material were to be prohibited, further development in education and research at the level of humanity as a whole would be completely lost. There should be a balance between the two, and at least Japanese copyright law also takes this into account.
In the event of copyright-related problems on this website, we intend to deal with them by deleting the articles, as it is difficult to solve them financially.
Although the text-based illustrations are of my own making, most of the illustrations used on this site are gratefully received from service sites that provide free illustrations. All of them are very good works, and they add excellent color to this site. I hope to return the favor someday.
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Two doors up was a grocery store. I knew what Chinese cabbage was because I used to go there to run errands. It was one of the larger vegetables, with large white rounded leaves that looked crispy when eaten.
However, the pickled Chinese cabbage that appeared on our dining table was completely different from the original image of the vegetable. It was cut into small pieces, only two centimeters square at the largest, and usually only about half that size. I sometimes suspected that my mother intentionally served them that way.
「吉田さんちでね、テレビを見に来てくれていいって。夕方、孝ちゃんといっしょに行ってきたら?」
She told me, “You can come over to Yoshida-san's house to watch TV. Why don't you go with Taka-chan in the evening?"
At that time, television had just come out, and not many houses had antennas on the rooftop. When sumo, boxing, wrestling or baseball matches were televised, we had no choice but to go to a house with a good business model that would charge money to let us watch the matches.
"Good evening," we opened the glass door of the house on the other side of the alley from our house, and went inside on our own.
「いらっしゃい。どうぞどうぞ上がってね」とおばさんが愛想よく出迎えた。
"Welcome," the house wife greeted us amiably, saying "Please come on in."
「ちょうどごはんどきだけど、いいわね」
"We are just at dinner table, but you don't mind?"
「え、もう夕飯」とは思ったが、声には出さなかった。
I thought, "Oh, it's already dinner time," but I didn't say so aloud.
玄関の間から奥の居間に進むと、おじさんが「そこの壁際に並んで座って見ればいい」と言ってくれた。
We proceeded from the entrance hall to the living room at the back of the house. Mr. Yoshida also cordially said, "Why don't you just sit down by that wall and watch?"
The father was sitting in a position where he could see the TV from the front, the mother was on his right, the elementary school brother was in front of her, and the older sister was facing us. On the table were bowls of steaming rice and miso soup, and in the middle of them was a large plate of pickled Chinese cabbage. So we could enjoy watching TV any longer.
It was happiness itself, the way the Chinese cabbage was placed on top of the white rice and carried by chopsticks. I was envious, and that was when it happened.
こちら向きになっていたお姉さんが声を上げた。
The sister, who was facing this way, shouted,
「もうやだあ」
"Oh my God!"
しまったと思った。テレビそっちのけで食事の風景ばかり眺めてしまった。
"Oh no!" I thought to myself, "I had been watching the scene of the meal, not the TV."
2人でそろって引き上げることにした。
The two of us should leave.
「ありがとうございました」
"Thank you very much."
「また来てね」
"Come again."
おばさんは優しかった。
The lady was kind.
家に帰ると母が夕飯の準備をしていた。白菜の件は何も報告せず、心の奥底にしまった。
When we returned home, Mom was preparing dinner. I did not report anything about the Chinese cabbage and put it in the back of my mind.
