NHK easy was all depressing content yesterday and today, so I finally picked up a corona article
It’s nice to have been able to understand this one. I feel grateful that I have people who would be concerned about my safety if I disappeared for a whole day. I wonder how common that is though? How often do people have someone who will check in on them daily? How often, especially with the pandemic, do the bodies rot away at home with no one even guessing they’re like that?
久しぶりですね~
I read about Hokkaido’s autumn leaves and felt pretty good about my understanding for the most part. I thought I’d try translating… Italics for sentences I found difficult so I’m not sure.
Mt Asahi is Hokkaido’s tallest Mountain at 2291m. It is a place in Japan where Autumn leaves begin early. This year it was cold by September, so this year the autumn leaves began early, as they do every year.
There is a place at 1600m elevation near the ropeway station where the trees’ leaves are turning beautiful reds and yellows. Due to concerns regarding the new coronavirus strain (新型 is new vocab for me), half the usual capacity of 50 people can ride the ropeway.
A man who comes every year said, “You can see distinct colours such as red, yellow and orange; it’s wonderful. It has been its most beautiful in recent years.”
Mt Asahi’s autumn leaves will continue for approximately the first 10 days (上旬 new vocab) of October.
I decided to look up the same article because it sounds interesting. This one, right?
It’s making temporary speed bumps to see if it helps with accidents near schools and residential areas. The speed bump will make drivers more aware. I wonder, no offense intended, do you drive?
I really like this idea personally since I’ve seen kids nearly hit when a guy drove through a pedestrian traffic light. I always see a lot of kids crossing that intersection, so I worry about them. I think a speed bump there would do immense good in making drivers slow down and therefore increase their awareness.
The grammar in this article didn’t always click so well for me, but it seems I got the main gist. Get vaccinated, receive cute button. I wish my prefecture did this. I love our mascot and I’ve already completed vaccination. I think having visual indicators will also push even more people to get vaccinated as a form of peer pressure. I hope other places and prefectures make this a standard
i think it just leads into the next part of the sentence (て can act as a connective of sorts, right), but i’m not sure. i got something like “At the NTT Group, there are 180000 people who are working as people who do correspondence by telephone and such things” but that’s super rough.
i think if it was future tense, that would only come up in context, right? i always hear that japanese doesn’t have a future tense (as such)…
Xのほうがadjective = X is more adjective (than something else). The adjective both clauses being the 多い. Basically, for other vaccines, the second dose is more likely to make you feel bad, whereas for AZ, the first dose is more likely.
Which article, though? Can you provide a link for the context?
I think it’s about tests being scanned and graded automatically by some software rather than picking your own questions. Though I guess as a teacher you could do that
I read a nice article about the eruption of Mount Aso, but I ended up getting distracted after checking my comprehension and stumbled upon this interview. A man is charged with abandoning his father’s body for 6 months. They were living together, but due to schedule differences, he allegedly didn’t notice the death for 2 months.