Victory Manual

Two weeks ago, I read on a friend’s mixi journal a post about his favorite Woody Allen films, and he noted one point of concern over the accuracy of his Jewish humor comprehension. Let me tell you that this friend is a very competent English speaker, but, even so, he still has worries about [...]

Mrs. Victory Manual, who has passed both JLPT level one and the JETRO Business Japanese Test, shared her very own manuel de victoire with moi.
In very scientific terms, she told me that the secret winning study strategy for the JLPT is, “choosing one textbook and studying it from cover to cover.”
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Very anticlimactic. But, I’m [...]

I’ve mentioned before that I watch Japanese dramas for both entertainment and for study, and I briefly wrote about a couple that I was watching at the time, but for those of you who are new to the Japanese drama world and don’t feel like wading through a lot of the just-plain-trash-dramas, allow me to [...]

So we’re (wife and I) watching some Japanese dramas at the moment, and I even came across a site that has the scripts in Japanese available! Can’t ask for more than that!
The dramas we’re watching are 薔薇のない花屋 (The flower shop with no roses) and エジソンの母 (Edison’s mom).
薔薇のない花屋, as the title implies, is a heavier [...]