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		<title>Procrastination</title>
		<link>http://hachidorida.wordpress.com/2012/01/09/procrastination/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 02:27:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wow! おひさしぶりですね。 It’s been a long time, huh?  I suppose the vacation I took from the blog was rather long, but no worries.  Believe it or not, I have actually been hard at work in my spare time.  Despite my lack of time online, I’ve been personally tutoring a few of my friends and it’s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hachidorida.wordpress.com&amp;blog=28598990&amp;post=239&amp;subd=hachidorida&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Adjectives</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 16:29:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Miki</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[雷は 温かい声; 子守唄. Kaminari wa Atatakai koe; Komori-uta. As for the thunder There is such warmth in its voice; It’s a lullaby. Lightning strikes the ground below In Japanese, adjectives come in many forms.  An i-adjective always ends in [い] as its name implies. To directly modify a noun with an i-adjective, no change to the adjective is necessary.  You [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hachidorida.wordpress.com&amp;blog=28598990&amp;post=231&amp;subd=hachidorida&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>As They Say&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://hachidorida.wordpress.com/2011/11/15/as-they-say/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 02:39:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Miki</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cultural Topics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cleanliness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Culture of Japan]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[清潔は敬神に最も近い. [せいけつはけいしんにもっともちかい.] Seiketsu wa keishin ni mottomo chikai. That is the Japanese equivalent to the idiom &#8220;Cleanliness is next to godliness.&#8221;  I was in the process of cleaning my room when that phrase came to me. The truth is, nothing ever stays clean for very long.  Which is why you must build discipline and clean all the time. Well, I&#8217;ve been really busy [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hachidorida.wordpress.com&amp;blog=28598990&amp;post=223&amp;subd=hachidorida&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>PARA PARA + J-Pop = Hinoi Team!</title>
		<link>http://hachidorida.wordpress.com/2011/11/12/para-para-j-pop/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Nov 2011 18:21:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Miki</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://hachidorida.wordpress.com/?p=214</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When you think of modern Japanese culture, do you imagine pretty girls dancing around and singing to intense beats?!  o.o パラパラ (Para Para) is a synchronized group dance that originated in Japan. Para Para began in Japan when european countries began selling new forms of music in Japan. Genres such as Disco and New Wave had a big influence in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hachidorida.wordpress.com&amp;blog=28598990&amp;post=214&amp;subd=hachidorida&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Question and Answer</title>
		<link>http://hachidorida.wordpress.com/2011/11/10/question-and-answer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 16:35:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Miki</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Japanese Lessons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Questions]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I gave you a small beginning range of possible questions but, I didn&#8217;t tell you how to answer them, huh? ._. In English, when someone asks &#8220;where?&#8221;, you can give them a concrete location such as &#8220;my school&#8221; or &#8220;my workplace&#8221;.  However, you could also direct them &#8220;here&#8221; or &#8221;there&#8221;.  We can learn some directional nouns that answer specific [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hachidorida.wordpress.com&amp;blog=28598990&amp;post=204&amp;subd=hachidorida&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Questions Words and the (Casual) State of Being</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 05:21:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Miki</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Japanese, there are parts of sentences called particles.  Particles are not always words necessarily, but they are used to tell how certain parts of the sentence are used.  For example, there is a topic marker particle that signals what it is you are talking about. (You may have seen it in romaji as &#8220;wa&#8221; but despite its [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hachidorida.wordpress.com&amp;blog=28598990&amp;post=189&amp;subd=hachidorida&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Japanese Names</title>
		<link>http://hachidorida.wordpress.com/2011/11/03/japanese-names/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 00:43:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Miki</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[鈴木一郎 (すずき-いちろう) Suzuki Ichirou Do you know which one is the surname? In English, the surname would come last (and thus is aptly called a last name) but that&#8217;s not how it works in Japan.  When reading Japanese names, the surname comes before the given name.  Actually, it would be considered the upper name because [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hachidorida.wordpress.com&amp;blog=28598990&amp;post=176&amp;subd=hachidorida&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Useful Words and Phrases</title>
		<link>http://hachidorida.wordpress.com/2011/11/02/useful-words-and-phrases/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 15:28:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Miki</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[expressing gratitude]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[expressing remorse]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let&#8217;s expand our conversational skills, shall we?  Hopefully the greetings and farewells did not give you much trouble. By now, I expect that you know the Hiragana or that you are at least willing to refer to the chart.  If you&#8217;re that lazy, then there is no helping you. I will give you a few useful [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hachidorida.wordpress.com&amp;blog=28598990&amp;post=156&amp;subd=hachidorida&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Introduction to Kanji</title>
		<link>http://hachidorida.wordpress.com/2011/10/26/introduction-to-kanji/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2011 01:57:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Miki</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the beginning, Kanji will freak you out.  For one thing, they can become quite complex and  require proper stroke order every time so that it looks correct. Some look very similar to each other and may become hard to distinguish.  They usually have more than one pronunciation (some have well over 3 pronunciations) and various meanings that change [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hachidorida.wordpress.com&amp;blog=28598990&amp;post=134&amp;subd=hachidorida&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Kana: Katakana</title>
		<link>http://hachidorida.wordpress.com/2011/10/24/the-kana-katakana/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 22:01:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Miki</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You may spend about a week or a month or a year (but that&#8217;s unlikely) studying the Hiragana and Katakana until you have fully memorized them.  You will see and need to know both, though Hiragana is more ubiquitous than Katakana.  The characters &#8216;we&#8217; and &#8216;wi&#8217; are outdated and are no longer used in modern Japanese. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hachidorida.wordpress.com&amp;blog=28598990&amp;post=125&amp;subd=hachidorida&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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