Makoto #18: Makoto e-Zine, #18

By Clay Boutwell and Yumi Boutwell

IN THIS ISSUE: August 2019
NEW READER: Frank and the Obaasan & Japan's Giant Hornets

* Laughs, Jokes, Riddles, and Puns
* Vocabulary
* Prefecture Spotlight
* Etymology
* Phrase of the Day
* Haiku: Basho
* Kanji Spotlight
* Grammar Time! 
* Japanese Readers: Frank & the Obaasan Episode 14 and Japan's Giant Hornets

• Language: English
• Publisher: Clay Boutwell
• Release date: Jul 29, 2019
• ISBN: 9781393939078

Book preview

Introduction

ご購入こうにゅう

ありがとう

ございます。

Thank you so much

for your purchase!

Most things in Japan, when compared to elsewhere—especially Texas! —are small. Want a large soda? Expect an American-sized small and if you are over six-feet-tall, get ready to duck when entering old houses.

But they have Texas-sized things too. When I first arrived in Japan in the late nineties, I stepped out of my apartment to find my trash, which I had left neatly stacked outside, torn into. Trash—my trash—was everywhere. I asked a neighbor if a dog had somehow climbed the stairs to the second floor and had fun with it. She shook her head and said, Karasu! Karasu! and then flapped her wings, I mean, arms. I learned a new word that day. Karasu means crow and the crows in Japan are HUGE.

Well, in today’s reader, Yumi will teach us about another HUGE critter of Japanese wildlife.

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Until next time,

Clay & Yumi

P.S. See the back of this eBook for a download link for the eBook formats and MP3s that come with this eBook. Or click here to go there now.

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ABOUT CLAY & YUMI

Yumi was a popular radio DJ in Japan for over ten years. She has extensive training in standard Japanese pronunciation which makes her perfect for creating these language instructional audio files.

Clay has been a passionate learner of Japanese for over twenty years now. His free language learning website, www.TheJapanesePage.com, got its start back in 1999 as a way to help other learners of Japanese as well as himself.

In 2002, they opened www.TheJapanShop.com to help students of Japanese get hard-to-find Japanese