Thank You for coming with me in 2007. I waited, crammed, and did a difficult 50/50 pass fail on the Japanese Proficiency Level Test 3. I'll let you know if I passed in February. But I'm already planning on studying for next year's test.

I will be on my OYASUMI (vacation) so you may not hear from me until next year! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year now! I plan to be partying in Tokyo, so hit me up if you will be in the area.

I'll catch you in the new year, and after my birthdai (January 7)!

Update your passport and be ready to come with me overseize on more adventures, and the relaunch of DaiTime.com!

Simple expressions, easily forgotten, but if used daily will be as natural as "こんにちは　Konnichiwa”　Come With Me...

お待たせしました！Sorry to have kept you waiting.

This lesson taken from:
http://www.jlptstudy.com/3/

www.DaiTime.com "OverSeize In Japan, Come With Me..."
http://overseize.podomatic.com "Japanese News Audiblog"

Now I can express something that is excessive to me, my personal observation of what seems, and something that shows signs of a trend. You can too by adding -sugiru -すぎる,-souda　-そうだ, and -tagatteiru
-たがっている.　Come With Me...

食べ物を食べ過ぎました！I ate TOO much food/I OVER ate.

http://www.DaiTime.com *OverSeize In Japan*
http://overseize.podomatic.com *Daiwu's Japanese News Audiblog*

Doing things like this and that, have done, and done while/as/with can all help us extend our sentences and grammar to sound more specific when retelling stories or answering questions. This time we're taking the verb and putting it in it's -ta form to complete these phrases. Come With Me...

I ate at a Hawaiian Restaurant, rode the train, and made this podcast.
ハワインレストランで食べたり、電車で乗ったり、このポドカストを作ったりしました。

Links To Study For The Japanese Proficiency Test-Thanks 'Myspace Don'!
http://www.jlptstudy.com/2/index.html
http://www.jlptstudy.com/3/index.html
http://www.jlptstudy.com/4/index.html

There is nothing as easy as remembering a word by learning its opposite, except that is forgetting both words! This is a Japanese vocabulary review of common verbs and adjectives listed in opposite pairs. Come With Me...

Nihongo wa muzukashii desu. IIe, yasashii desu.
日本語は難しいです。いいえ、優しいです。
Japanese is difficult. No, it's easy.

Catch Daisha "Daiwu" in Japan at www.DaiTime.com!

Continuing with verb study after a few weeks break. I went home to visit over Labor Dai (see Memoirs Journal August 2007 Entry). Getting back into the swing of expanding useful phrases with verb endings in -te(it's alright to, it doesn't matter if, try to, after verb-ing, have done/finished). Welcome to all the new joining listeners. Ganbatte! Come With Me...

KiiTEMOII desu. It's alright to listen. 聞いてもいいです。

www.DaiTime.com-Overseize In Japan!

I`m ABOUT TO GO to sleep. I`m surfING the internet NOW. I JUST finishED this podcast. Currently I'm working on presenting my tenses in recent events and it is easy to do by adding IMA and TOKORO DESU. Come With Me...

IMA benkyoshiteIRU TOKORO DESU. I'm studying now.

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How to, easy/difficult to, want to, while, begin/start to, continue, and finish; all of which we can learn how to say by removing the "-masu" ending from verbs and adding a prefix. These phrases are easily lost when listening at native speed so I'm learning 'HOW TO' speak and listen for these key grammar points in a sentence. Come With Me...

Kanji wa KAKI-NIKUI desu. Kanji is DIFFICULT to WRITE.

www.DaiTime.com for more on my life in Japan!

I watch TV "WHILE" I eat. Well who doesn't? Learn how to express two actions in Japanese using "nagara". In addition, learn how to use "sore ne" -in addition, or besides, and "sore de" to give a reason or cause. Come With Me...

The apartment shook "WHILE" I slept. Apaato wa yure NAGARA nemurimashita.

Read up on www.DaiTime.com about my first earthquake experience.
Click on Memoirs, Journal, and read "Fisher Price-My First Earthquake"

Happy 1 Year Anniversary to DaiTime Japan! Thank you to all of my listeners and fans out there. Good luck to everyone studying Japanese. I have been focusing on Japanese vocabulary over the past year, but now I will focus on grammar. With the approaching Japanese Level Proficiency Test coming in December, I have a lot of studying to do. You are always welcome to "Come With Me...!"

www.DaiTime.com-Daisha's life abroad-photos, journal, podcast, videos now playing!

Get your feelings across in Japanese. Everything isn't daijyobu and I'm not always feeling genki, so I need to learn how to diversify my expressions. Feel free to study with me and let the music move you too. Come With Me...

Featured Tracks:
Emotions
So Excited
Hate That I Love You
Dying
Emotional
Feelin' It

We are in rainy season here in Japan and I got my rainboots on! As we go into, a soon to be hot and humid, summer I　prepare by learning more forgotten vocabulary.　Your more than welcome to stand under my umbrella and splash in this puddle of words.　Come With Me...

Featured Tracks:
Can You Stand The Rain
Storm
Sunshine
Weatherman
So Icy
Fair Weather Friend

Japan's violent news stories are hard to believe-gangster retaliation, killing family members, teens severing parents bodies, the art of chopping body parts. It's worst how this country isn't prepared for these situations. It's even harder to be prepared to understand the stories without the correct vocabulary and cultural notes, so learn along while bumpin some murderous music. Come With Me...

Featured Tracks:
Gangsta, Gangsta
Knuck If You Buck
Murder, Murder
Shooter
My Gun

Related News Article:
http://www.japantoday.com/jp/news/407042

I was able to get back to my roots and visit my Great Grandmother for her 90th Birthdai in Columbus, Georgia. I then visited my Alma Mater Temple University in North Philly, and returned to my birthplace-Harrisburg, Pa-The Capital Star City (717), for my Brother's 30th Birthdai. I realized how much trouble I had remembering all of the Japanese family vocabulary terms. So nows your chance to learn them too! Come With Me...

Featured Tracks:
We Are Family
Papa Don't Preach
Bold Soul Sister
Dear Momma
Son of Byford
Sugar Momma

Heads, shoulders, knees, and toes, knees and toes…It’s the best way to learn body parts in Japanese also! Sing along and work your body to the rhythm while trying to memorize this vocabulary. Come With Me…

Featured Tracks:
Get Me Bodied
Body Parts
Lip Gloss
Rock Ya Hips
Put Yo Hands Where My Eyes Can See

"We Stay In The Club!" Love to club hop? Well wait until you get inside and see the live action of Japanese club atmosphere. Trying to pick up a date? What are you going to say? What are they saying to you? Listen as I tell you about my first "Japanese Holla!" and teach you some basic vocabulary that would be helpful to know. If your trying to spit game or just get a dance and a drink, Come With Me...

Featured Tracks:
At The Club
Beat Drop
Side To Side
Get It Shawty
Like This

Calendar Days-Shuumatsu Means Weekend

Days, weeks, months…time seems to fly and keeping track with Japanese vocabulary for dates can pass me by. Learning the days of the week and names of month may seem elementary but when you throw in the Japanese various systems of counting days of months versus date of the month things can get confusing. Stay up on your daily planner as I tackle the numbers and calendar days. Come With Me…

Featured Tracks:
Saturday Love
Saturday (Ooh Ooh!)
1st of the Month
1st and 15th
6 Months, 8 Days, 12 Hours

Japanese Prime Minister won’t re-apologize for WW2 sex slaves, and America wants them to apologize yet still hasn’t apologized for its own slave history! Looking at the disgust that is government, politics, and war and the recent news resurfacing of “comfort women” in WW2; trying to learn government vocabulary could be endless. Learn some words and history as I get schooled. Come With Me…

Featured Tracks:
Black Republican
Follow The Leader
War
Bells of War
American Terrorist

March 3rd is Girls Dai in Japan, also known as Doll Festival. Let me tell you what it’s all about and the Japanese vocabulary associated with it. I definitely think playing with Barbies and Bratz is more fun then giving some porcelain dolls rice crackers! Come With Me…

Featured Tracks:
Just A Girl
That Girl
Girls Best Friend
She’s Your Queen (Coming To America)
Holiday

Getting you warmed up and ready to romance early. Let Valentine’s 2007 be something sweet and throw a few words in Japanese in that special person’s ear. Spreading love this month and trying to remember new vocabulary, as always with some special mood music. Come With Me…

Featured Tracks:
Love For Free
Special Feeling
Kissing You
Love In War
Sex, Love, and Money
Love You Down

I’m leaving, but not yet, and not for good. Here is what you need to do if you do plan on leaving Japan for vacation or any reason and want to return. I discuss the documents needing to be obtained for one less hassle at Customs and Immigration. Update your passports and I.D. cards while learning the associated Japanese vocabulary with me, and of course my selected travel tunes play along. Come With Me…

Featured Tracks:
I’m Leaving
Pasaporte Latino Americano
Pimpin All Over The World
You Don’t Know Me
I’m Leaving You Again

Being sick sucks and there’s nothing like being sick, lonely, and unable to say “I need cough medicine,” while in a store! I had to get to this vocab fast considering my sore throat and shoulder pain. Help me get better while I go through these words and rest to some ill music. Come With Me…

Featured Tracks:
So Sick
Headache
Pain
Healing
Sick Of Being Lonely

Ichi, ni, san, shi-I'm sure you have that much down. How about the rest of the numbers used to confuse? Let's take it back to Sesame Street and The Count. It takes practice and use to memorize Japanese Bango, so I'll try to keep count with my favorite beats. Come With Me...

Featured Tracks:
1,2,3,4,5...(Sesame Street)
ABC
Numbers
10 Crack Commandments
Countdown

You can reach me by airplane, but I dare you to catch the train anywhere here! Getting around Japan can be so frustrating and financialy challenging, especially when pricing bullet train tickets, domestic flights, versus the cheap cost to fly out of Japan, rather than traveling within. Let's review some crucial vocabulary terms by means of transportation. Tell me how to go!
Come With Me...

Featured Tracks:
Tell Me When To Go
Run
Miss Your Flight
Ride The Train
Go

My house warming...not quite. Come into my apartment and learn what it's like to live cramped and comfortable in a shoebox society. There is alot of vocabulary to learn associated with a "living" space. Listen as I try to cram and even take a peek inside on DaiTime.com Come With Me...

Featured Tracks:
I'll House You
Let's Play House
Sitting Home
A Heart Is A House For Love
Run's House

It's always time to eat! Browse the grocery stores in Japan and learn the basics to what is needed in your kitchen from: bread, eggs, cheese, milk, water, salt, pepper, ketchup and of course RICE. I have the vocabulary for what you need to keep your stomach settled. Come With Me...

Featured Tracks:
All You Can Eat
Chicken Noodle Soup
Peanut Butter Jelly Time
Chicken Grease
Pork Chops & Onion Gravy (Baltimore Club)
The Food

Money in the bank or yen in the ginko, setting up your bank account and getting your funds back into your home country account is essential during your first week here. Money transfers can be expensive, money orders are more economical, and most ATM's aren't open 24 hours and don't accept foreign cards. Learn the vocabulary on how to function and handle your funds sufficiently. Come With Me...

Featured Tracks:
Money In The Bank
Bank Roll
C.R.E.A.M.
Money On My Mind
Millionaire

How do you get your stuff here and back? Let me tell you the options you have when sending or recieving mail to Japanese addresses, and the expected prices to pay. Learn the standard postal vocabulary and procedures with me as I try to get settled in Japan. Come With Me...

Featured Tracks:
Mr. Postman (Baltimore Club)
Sending My Love
4 Page Letter
Send It On
Signed, Sealed, Delivered

Trying to get a car in Japan can be a hassle if your not prepared. Learning car vocabulary is the first thing to do! Listen to my favorite ryder music and let me tell you what I went through. Come With Me...

Featured Tracks:
Chevy Ridin' High
Ruff Ryders Anthem
Rider Girl
Ridin' Dirty
Ride Wit Me