{"id":1408,"date":"2007-10-16T22:50:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-16T22:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/?p=1408"},"modified":"2007-10-16T22:50:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-16T22:50:00","slug":"were-all-learning-japanese-scary-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/?p=1408","title":{"rendered":"We’re All Learning Japanese, Scary News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sometimes it is easy to forget that while my students are working on studying English with me, they are also still studying Japanese. I can easily fall into this mental trap where they see me as an expert of English, so they must be an expert in Japanese – and sometimes this is just not the case.<\/p>\n

The other day I was talking with my students about my favorite things to order in a yakitori, so I was naming the items in Japanese. One of my favorites is “negimi”, which is chicken and onions alternating on a stick that is barbecued. The students corrected me and insisted that it was “negima”, which sounds the same, just a little bit different. <\/p>\n

Of course I’ve been ordering in a yakitori for a few years now and I insisted that it was really negimi, and they know I’m a foreigner so I must be wrong and it is “negima”. So I go home that night and ask Kuniko, and she says that it is both. So we were both right, and I’ll share that bit of information with them next week. <\/p>\n

On the scary news front, a seven year old girl in Befu (a couple of train stops from Futami, where I used to live) was stabbed to death in front of her house<\/a> last night. It made national headlines and had everyone shaking their heads. I had a little scare because the girl had the same first name as one of my students, but that neighborhood is a little out of range from my classroom. <\/p>\n

Today I expect that a lot of mothers will be escorting their kids around, and I won’t be surprised if we have a few mothers today bringing their kids right to the door of my classroom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sometimes it is easy to forget that while my students are working on studying English with me, they are also still studying Japanese. I can easily fall into this mental trap where they see me as an expert of English, so they must be an expert in Japanese – and sometimes this is just not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pOpl7-mI","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}