Comments on: Rambling in Japanese

By: kirin

kirin — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 10:38:34 +0000

Thank you for sharing the info. From US$100/1Jo is almost the same as here in Japan. 畳の上を裸足で歩くのは確かに気持ちいいね！＾＾　私は畳の（いぐさの）香りも好き！でも時間が経つとなくなってしまうけれどね。。。If you try "okidatami" or a very thin, small, light Tatami that you can easily put on the floor, take it away and store somewhere when you don't use it, that's easier. In Japan, many young people do not like Tatami room but they like to have "okidatami" to enjoy casual Tatami space only when they want to.

By: kirin

kirin — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 10:30:39 +0000

No problem at all, Batool. You're right, 9 has 2 ways of pronunciations but in this case, only "kyuu" is used. 9, 29, 39, 49…all the same. kyuu, nijyukyuu…

By: kirin

kirin — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 10:21:55 +0000

I'm sorry I don't know that.

By: G...

G... — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:33:46 +0000

畳についてアメリカまでも買えますがかなり高いです。私なら畳が好きですので少し調べておきました。１畳は１００＄以上らしいです。後は運賃や部屋を建て直すことなどありますので。。。でも、いつか和室欲しいですよ。畳はきれいし畳で歩くのは気持ちし。

Even in America, you can buy Tatami, but it's pretty expensive. I happen to like tatami, so I did a bit of searching. It seems that each mat tends to cost over 100$. And there's still the delivery fees, and remodeling the room, etc… However, I'd like to have a tatami-room someday. I think tatami is beautiful, and it feels good to walk on them.

By: Batool

Batool — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 21:44:55 +0000

Happy to be one of the first Arab person who exchanged massages here ^^
Thank you very much for correcting my mistake , I thought that we can use the two words く and きゅう as 9 when talking about age -_- Thanks again for your explaination ^_^

By: hotspot shield

hotspot shield — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 08:55:47 +0000

How much money would an average college philosopher make?

By: kirin

kirin — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:18:05 +0000

Thank you! I'm glad you liked pop-ups too. It'll be 1.5 times or double more expensive if we order Tatami without the cloth around the edge of it, because they say finishing the edge with Tatami only without the cloth takes more time and labour.

By: kirin

kirin — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:07:54 +0000

Thank you for your visit and comment here. I think you are my first Arabic person who exchanged messages! Wow! I don't understand anything of your language, and I've never visited any Arabic countries ever before. That's still a mysterious part of the world to me, although I am very curious about it.

Your English is good and I can understand with no problem. BTW, when you say 19 years old in Japanese, that's じゅうきゅうさい(Jyukyusai) instead of じゅうくさい as in your blog. And that's when you speak, but when you write it down, you do it as 19歳 or 19才 and do not use hiragana or katakana. Just number plus sai in kanji. All the best for your study.

By: kirin

kirin — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:58:31 +0000

Thank you for answering my question. I thought Tatami was getting popular in western culture because of Japanese zen style. But it sounds not as much as I thought. :p

How is your Japanese? I think it's good that you understood much of what I spoke in the video. Keep it up and がんばって！　:)

By: Andrea

Andrea — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:44:56 +0000

I like it! It's nice that you always write the translations in Japanese/English, that's really helpful.

I was surprised how expensive it is to renew tatami!