This is the 18th episode from our lesson series – News story. Today’s news is about Canada’s new decision to release its emergency maple syrup reserves. Let’s find out more details. This episode is for intermediate learners. The accompanying book to all the news stories which contains the news transcript, the English translation, keywords, grammar …
This is the 17th episode from our lesson series – News story. Today’s news is about Spain’s new moves to regulate the ads particularly aimed at kids. Let’s find out more details. This episode is for lower-intermediate learners. The accompanying book to all the news stories which contains the news transcript, the English translation, keywords, …
Today I’d like to share a song from one of my favorite Ghibli Anime movies「天空の城ラピュタ」or “Castle in the Sky”. The song is called “君を乗せて (Carrying you)” performed by Azumi Inoue (井上あずみ). It’s composed as the ending theme song for the movie by Joe Hisaishi (久石譲) as are most of the soundtracks of Studio Ghibli movies. …
This is the 16th episode from our lesson series – News story. Today’s news is about a shrine gate – torii in Japanese – in Tushima, Nagasaki that has been rebuilt recently. Let’s find out more on how it had been destroyed and how people helped to rebuild it. This episode is for intermediate learners. …
This is the 15th episode from our lesson series – News story. Today’s news is about (UAE) using drone technology to increase rainfall. Let’s learn more about the new technology that UAE has started testing recently. This episode is for intermediate learners. The accompanying book to all the news stories which contains the news transcript, …
Jun Mizutani （水谷隼）who got the gold medal in mixed doubles table tennis at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics 中国という国に、今までたくさんオリンピック、世界卓球で負けてきて、この東京オリンピックで、今までのすべてのリベンジができました。 We’ve been losing to China at the Olympic Games and at world tournaments but we were able to take a revenge on all that at the Tokyo Olympics Daiki Hashimoto（橋本大輝）who won the gold medal in the …
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This is the 14th episode from our new lesson series – News story. Today’s news is about California using goats to prevent wildfires. The title of today’s article [ヤギの手を借りて山火事対策] means “taking measures against wildfires with the help of goats”. This is a play on words – the usual expression would be [猫の手も借りたい] which literally means …
Today I’d like to share a famous song called “川の流れのように (Like the flow of the river)” by Misora Hibari. Misora Hibari (美空ひばり) is one of the greatest artists of all time in Japan. She started to sing professionally at 9 years old right after WWII and became the source of encouragement and inspiration for the …
This is the 13th episode from our new lesson series – News story. Today’s news is about a Japanese baseball player, Shohei Otani, being selected to the All-Star Game in Denver. The accompanying book to all the news stories which contains the news transcript, the English translation, keywords, grammar points, and excises is available for …
Photo by Joao Tzanno on Unsplash Do you like proverbs? Proverbs is called ことわざ in Japanese. 今日は、動物のことわざを、５つ紹介します。 Today I’d like to introduce to you 5 animal-related proverbs: 1. 猿も木から落ちる Even monkeys fall from a tree さる: monkey き: tree おちる: to fall This expression can be used to cheer up a person when he made …