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Peace is Foreigners Eating Sushi
Culture 文化

Peace is Foreigners Eating Sushi

“When foreigners eat sushi, it really is peace, isn’t it.”- Jichan, 92 #sushipeace

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Unbound by Time or Place
Life Musings 哲学

Unbound by Time or Place

The internet is incredible. This tool allows anyone to be unbound by culture or the time they happen to be born in.

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Free Food!
Language Learning 言語学習

Free Food!

Leave a comment When multiple values align, I must share! Free Rice is a free app helps one lean and donate food […]

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Alchemy
Life Musings 哲学

Alchemy

Everything experienced is a thought.

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Thought Fractals
Life Musings 哲学

Thought Fractals

I don’t know where to start. Wait. That point is my starting point.

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Sounds Beautiful
linguistics 言語学

Sounds Beautiful

Isn’t it interesting that humans have feelings about the words that we use to express feeling?! This is property is called Phoneaethetics.

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Classroom Conversations
English Language Arts 英語の国語

Classroom Conversations

I keep a list of some of the humorous, if not ridiculous, verbal combinations that have come out of the mouths of students, myself, and colleagues while teaching middle school.

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Doing in Order to Do
Quotes 名言集

Doing in Order to Do

If I wait till I’m perfect and perfectly ready, then I will never begin.

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The McDonald’s House
Poetry 詩

The McDonald’s House

A haiku about my unconventionally colored home.

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Emoji Etymology
Japanese as a Second Language 日本語

Emoji Etymology

The Japanese language has now come full circle. ♻️ Kanji started as pictures, morphed into ideograms, and eventually was combined in Japan with a syllabary that held phonetic value, and now technology is taking people back to the origin of writing roots.

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CaucAsian
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Emoji Etymology
Japanese as a Second Language 日本語
Unbound by Time or Place
Life Musings 哲学
🤝Oki Hands Oki Hearts💛
Culture 文化
Good is Perfect
Quotes 名言集
The process can be a beautiful product.
Life Musings 哲学
Podcast Episode 1: Mondegreens
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Podcast Episode 1: Mondegreens
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  • 2021-02-26
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Podcast Episode 1: Mondegreens

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🤝Oki Hands Oki Hearts💛
Culture 文化
  • 2021-01-24
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  • 17 min
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Tagged charity, orphans, thrift shop, thrift store

🤝Oki Hands Oki Hearts💛

Helping those who legally cannot help themselves.

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Free Food!
Language Learning 言語学習
  • 2020-09-17
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Free Food!

Leave a comment When multiple values align, I must share! Free Rice is a free app helps one lean and donate food […]

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Free Fun Flashcard Study Resource
Language Learning 言語学習
  • 2020-07-25
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Free Fun Flashcard Study Resource

Leave a comment https://quizlet.com

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高山義浩先生
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  • 2020-07-16
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高山義浩先生

A doctor’s critical thinking on COVID-19 in Okinawa.

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ようこそ  Welcome
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  • 2020-07-14
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ようこそ Welcome

What is rightricepaddy.com?

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Translation Tip
Language Learning 言語学習
  • 2020-07-13
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Tagged English to Japanese, Japanese to English, language learning, translating, translation

Translation Tip

Translation tip: If you are reading a sentence in English/ Japanese and are unsure of what it says, identify the subject and then try reading the sentence backwards and the grammar will be much more akin to your native tongue.

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Mini-Lesson #1
Japanese as a Second Language 日本語
  • 2020-07-11
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Tagged English as a Second Language, ESL, Japanese as a second language, JSL

Mini-Lesson #1

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Summer✹夏休み 
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  • 2020-07-10
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Tagged Nature, okinawa, summer

Summer✹夏休み 

The beauty of summer.

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How to Call a Japanese Cell Phone from Overseas
Culture 文化
  • 2020-07-06
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Tagged Japanese Culture, Living in Japan

How to Call a Japanese Cell Phone from Overseas

You got a cellphone in Japan! (Did you get SoftBank or au? I like au for two reasons unrelated to the actual phone. […]

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I'm Kendra Migita, a wife, mom, teacher, and military brat turned expat in Okinawa, Japan. I write about the joys and challenges of straddling the American and Japanese worlds.

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Podcast Episode 1: Mondegreens
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Podcast Episode 1: Mondegreens
🤝Oki Hands Oki Hearts💛
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🤝Oki Hands Oki Hearts💛
Free Food!
Language Learning 言語学習
Free Food!
Free Fun Flashcard Study Resource
Language Learning 言語学習
Free Fun Flashcard Study Resource
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My grandparents and my husbands grandparents. 👴🏼👵🏻私の祖父母と夫の祖父母。#redneck #うちなんちゅ
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! 🍊メリークリスマス、来年よろしくお願いします。
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I’m so excited to read this literary treasure! 📕 この文学の宝物を読むことができてとても興奮しています!
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  自業自得 Translation: “One’s act, one’s profit” Interpretation: You reap what you sow.  

A living vs. a life
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