Teaching kids Telugu, when I ask them if they know the meaning of the word or what they think it is, then they show it by action and then I have to rack my brain for which word they might be referring to.. but its a win -win, two words at once.
In your microsoft live transcript converter, you can change the language to the language you are learning.
Basho David is a quick read because it is all in English.
Basho Reichold Aroun 200 pages, notes start with romaji and Japanese, if you dont want to accidentally read te English translation.
In 11 years
a first song bird on the lamppostJoshua Gage on horizontal and vertical axis
New to haiku advice for beginners
Mike Rehling on Haiga and Senryu
A friend asked me about my interest in learning Japanese to understand haiku better. I got a sense from the translations that it is better to know them in the original language. She wondered how I knew that it would be a treasure. Then I relaised that I was taken by the haiku translated in English and the Japanese prints attached with them, but I always wondered about the original and how one line of characters held so much meaning in them.
Reading the Senryu book, at first I couldnt get myself to move away from the nature writing. Reading that Senryu is about human nature, I realise tat sometimes it is hard to remove our presence or our POV even if it is nature that we are observing. many Westerners who write haiku are actually writing senryu!
Loved this podcast about pre modern Senryu followed with modern Senryu.
Men at 40 by Donald Justice. Based on this poem, Hollander wrote a poem called Women at 50 and used a noun in each para from the inspirational poem in a different way.
Maxine Kumin would use traditional structured poem format when she had to write about an emotional subject.
poetry home repair manual by Ted Kooser
"The new technique gave Blake full creative freedom and full control of production. Suddenly, he could combine text and image on a single page, in a single process.."
"since they are both created with the same brush and ink, adding an image to a haiku poem was ... a natural activity." - Stephen Addis
For some reason, I misunderstood that the image came first and then the haiku.
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いかめしき音や霰の桧木笠.
How harsh it sounds
The pattering of hail!
on my cypress hat
కరకర
వడగల్లు
నల్ల చీకటిమాను టోపీ పై
crossword to keep the vocabulary
translate app on iphone
From a first lesson handout, some kanji was too hard, but I realised that it was the repetition of vocabulary on the top. I had attended lesson 3 which was easier than the L1 and L2 that I missed. Hopefully I catch up by lesson 4.
Able to make some connections with words I have come across before and their meanings. eg tachiyomi (yomi from the on yomi and kun yomi)
A steady stream of new words needs to join the learning river, as we try to understand new words too. I am going through the reading list
sliver of moon
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little bird
sing your song
some ears are wating for it
first music of the day
A single hashira tori is odd. I could not have guessed the cause of it.
This must be the fallen part.
This video shows the tomic bomb damaged tori at Sanno shrine just a little bit away from the still standing part of it. In some ways, its like the fallen part is like the father and the standing one the beacon of the future.
Wonder what is this black growth on the tree. Seeds of hardy trees have been sent world wide to grow.
