Floating City of Light

Visit Malaysia: Air Itam It looks like it is floating 浮かんでいるようです。 ukandeiru you desu. It looks like a city 都市みたいです。 toshi mitai desu. A floating city of light 浮かんでいる光の都市です。 ukandeiru hikari no toshi desu. How to say in Japanese: Float Why ice is made of water and yet ice 浮かぶ ukabu floats on water? ...read why ice floats on water here. What is the difference between 浮く uku vs 浮かぶ ukabu? 浮く uku is used when something that is floating upward from bottom/surface. 浮かぶ ukabu is used when...

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Paintings in the bottle

Visit China: Guangzhou   He is painting the bottle. 彼は瓶を描いています kare ha bin wo kaiteimasu Not the outside but the inside. 外ではなく、中を描いています。 soto de ha naku, naka wo kaiteimasu Amazing work! すごい作品です。 sugoi sakuhin desu How to say in Japanese: Bottle The energy saved from recycling one ガラス瓶 garasu botoru glass bottle can run a 100-watt light bulb for four hours or a compact fluorescent bulb for 20 hours.  Recycling ペットボトル petto botoru plastic (PET) bottle...

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Secret codes

Visit China: Guangzhou What is this? これはなんですか kore ha nan desu ka. These are the secret codes to the above. これは暗号です。 Kore ha angou desu. How to say in Japanese: Secret codes The Chen family have such a big business and huge wealth that they had to conceal the real numbers with 暗号 angou secret codes. ...

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Determination of a Wood

Visit China: Guangzhou One simple piece wood. 単なる木ですが。 tannaru moku desu ga. Determination turned it into a piece masterpiece 決断は最高の作品に変えました。 ketsudan ha saikou no sakuhin ni kaemashita. How to say in Japanese: Determine Some are destined to succeed; some are 決断した ketsudan shita determined to succe...

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Paper cut

Visit China: Guangzhou Look at this painting  この絵を見て。 kono e wo mite It is not painted. 絵は描かれていなくて、 eha kakareteinakute But cut with a pair of scissors. 鋏で切られたんだけど。 hasami de kirareta n dakedo. How to say in Japanese: Cut Did you know that if you can get water flowing fast enough, it can 切る kiru cut steel? Read waterj...

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Extraordinary Japanese Culture: Drinks

Unsweet Coke The first time I reached Tokyo, in Narita airport, I was so のどが渇いた nodo ga kawaita thirsty after the long wait at the immigration. The first thing I did was buying a can of Coke. As I took the first gulp, "Uh? It tasted kinda 変 hen strange. It`s 甘くない amakunai not sweet." I thought all コラ kora cokes are supposed to taste the same everywhere. Probably I just got a bad can of coke. It turned out, all the cokes tasted the same everywhere in Japan. Japanese don`t like sweet coke. (In Malaysia, people...

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Dragon dragon dragon

Visit China: Guangzhou Dragon and the hill 竜と山 ryuu to yama Dragon and luck 竜と副 ryuu to fuku Dragon and fireball 竜と火球 ryuu to kakyuu Dragon and cloud 竜と雲 ryuu to kumo Dragon gliding on cloud 竜は雲の上に滑る ryuu ha kumo no ue ni suberu Dragon chasing the fireball 竜は火球を追う ryuu ha kakyuu wo ou Dragon and its claw 竜と爪 ryuu to tsume Twin dragon 双子の竜 futago no ryuu The red dragon レッド　ドラゴン reddo doragon How to say in Japanese: Dragon Did you know 2012 is the...

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Stepping higher and higher

Visit China: Guangzhou 2 steps up the stairs 階段を２段上ります kaidan wo 2 suteppu noborimasu 3 steps up the stairs 階段を３段上ります kaidan wo 2 suteppu noborimasu 4 steps up the stairs 階段を４段上ります kaidan wo 2 suteppu noborimasu How to say in Japanese: Stairs The 階段 kaidan stairs in ancient Chinese houses are designed one step higher as you enter deeper into the house which means going to be better and better....

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Window of Art

Visit China: Guangzhou These windows are not just windows. この窓は単なる窓ではない。 kono mado ha tannaru mado de ha nai. How to say in Japanese: Window Do you know these 窓 mado windows are made of coba...

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Lime sculpture

Visit China: Guangzhou The frame 額縁 gakubuchi The sculpture 彫刻 choukoku Coloring 色をつける iro wo tsukeru Final touches 最後の仕上げ saigo no shiage How to say in Japanese: To sculpture, engrave, carve Michaelangelo is one of the most famous 彫刻家 choukoku ka sculptor who 彫刻した choukoku shita carved the most famous 彫刻 choukoku sculpture called "The Statue of David"...

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