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今日、スコーンを焼きました。

（きょう、スコーンをやきました）

クランベリーのスコーンです。

みなさんは、スコーンが好きですか？

（みなさんは、スコーンがすきですか？）

私は大好きです。

（わたしはだいすきです）

実は、パンを作るのも好きだったりします。

（じつは、パンをつくるのもすきだったりします）

今度、写真をのせますね。

（こんど、しゃしんをのせますね）

I received a gorgeous scarf from my friend / student Melissa the other day!

先日、お友達でプライベートレッスンの生徒さんのメリッサさんから素敵な手編みのマフラーが届きました！

せんじつ、おともだち　で　プライベートレッスン　の　せいとさん　の　メリッサさん　から　すてきな

てあみ　の　マフラー　が　とどきました！

Thank you so much, Melissa!  You are such a sweetie!

メリッサさん、どうもありがとう♪

A scarf from Melissa! from Hitomi Griswold on Vimeo.

If you have not learned days of the week in Japanese yet, here is your chance

月曜日（げつようび）＝Monday

火曜日（かようび）＝Tuesday

水曜日（すいようび）＝Wednesday

木曜日（もくようび）＝Thursday

金曜日（きんようび）＝Friday

土曜日（どようび）＝Saturday

日曜日（にちようび）＝Sunday

Days of the week in Japanese from Hitomi Griswold on Vimeo.

I think Daniel Radcliff is a great sport for doing things like this.  You hear so often about the egos and personalities of celebrities, so it’s great to see someone being a really good sport.

Tilt-Shift is a technique that can make real-world objects look like miniatures.   Many times you just see it applied to photos (and many times it’s just a fake done in Photoshop) but in this case it’s a video.  Take a look:

Because of my schedule, we haven’t been able to record full episodes for quite a while.  We’re working hard to at least start delivering “quick lessons” in the meantime.

We hope you enjoy them.  Please continue to email your questions and comments.

Thanks!

Japancast Quick Lesson #1

Most anime otaku know about Akihabara.  It’s otaku heaven – between the electronics, anime, maid cafe’s and stores selling things related to all of the above, you can’t go wrong in Akihabara.

And most of us know that statistically Japan is incredibly safe.  But then you read articles like this one that remind you nowhere is 100% safe.

From Khabrein.info:

TOKYO, June 8 (KUNA) — Seven people were killed and 11 others were wounded Sunday in central Tokyo after a man hit pedestrians with a truck and stabbed them with a knife.

The incident took place around 12:30 p.m. (03:30 GMT) in the Akihabara district, a busy shopping area known as “electric town” and a center of Japanese subculture, which are popular among young people, comic and animation fans as well as foreign tourists.

Police arrested the man, 25-year-old Tomohiro Kato from Shizuoka Prefecture, eastern Japan, and seized a survival knife he was carrying.

Kato told police that he came to Akihabara to kill people. “I am tired of the world. It didn’t matter whom I would kill,” he said, according to a police spokemsan.

According to witnesses, Kato ran away from his truck after hitting several pedestrians and started stabbing people at random.

The Akihabara attack occurred on the seventh anniversary of a stabbing spree by a man at Osaka’s elementary school in 2001, which left eight children dead.

A timelapse of Japanese designer Hiroshi Yoshii creating a cute anime monster in 3D. If you’ve ever been interested in working in anime in Japan, pay attention!