２０１８の洪水

Something I posted recently on FB.  Had to look up some 言葉。ここあります。

dam　　　　 ダム
flood　　　　洪水
lake   　          湖
basement　　地下
drain　　       排水する
died                死亡しました
got repaired   修理されました
All are safe    誰もが安全です。

I am less confident than usual that my translations are correct. 

Here's the post.  I know it's clunky.  We learn by doing.

３週間前に、私の近い湖は洪水がありました。私の家の地下が水ありました。町は湖を排水しました。今日（金曜日）湖のダムが修理されました、そして、あの道の上で運転するができます。誰もが安全です、うれしいですね。

Beginning Japanese by Kluempler

This textbook is looking pretty cool.

OK, I don't know if it would be good for true beginners.  Chapter 1 and we're already seeing kanji.  But for practice reading, I am loving it.

I wonder why I never heard about this online?  My wife found it in the new books section at the library.  It's obviously a school textbook.  Maybe it's too new.  Maybe people think school textbooks are icky.

Looking forward to some reading practice that, I hope, won't have me running to the dictionary 3 times per sentence.

(Oh, and it's cheap, too:  $20 to Genki's $40 and JfZ!'s $30.

Japanese Graded Readers 2:2:7: わらしべ長者

 わらしべ　： dried rice stalk
長者　　　：millionaire
一生懸命　：hard, as in hard work
観音様　　：the bodhisattva representing/embodying compassion
拾う　　　：pick up
捨てない　：don't throw away
転びました：fell
向こう　　：beyond
みかん　　：Mandarin orange
喜びました：was delighted
布　　　　：cloth
また　　　：also
まだ　　　：still
まで　　　：until

(Sounds like I need a mnemonic!  Mada:  mah doll is still here -- I still play with dolls.  Mata -- mah top is here also.  Made:  but mah day is approaching when I'll stop playing with toys.  ... We'll see how this goes.)

倒れて　　：fell down
横　　　　：side
やりました：did it (or:  Yay!  I did it!)
すると　　：then
連れて　　：bring
通る　　　：pass through
遠く　　　：far away
五年前　　：five years ago
呼びました：called

Japanese Graded Readers 0:2:7: 風と太陽

取ります:　take

Japanese Graded Readers 3:1:4: この人だあれ？ Part 1: 野口英雄

Some of these I didn't get to the point of certainty on.  Still, this is what I have.

だあれ？　　　Who's that?
お札　　　　　paper money
技術　　　　　technology
進んで 　　　   advance
偽札　　　　　counterfeit money
言われています　people say...
野口英雄　　　Hideo Naguchi, bacteriologist
まま　　　　　as it is
すぐ　　　　　soon?
貧乏    　　　　poverty
使って　　　    use (up?)
しまう　　　　cause
一生懸命　　　hard, as in hard work
よくなりました improved
囲炉裏                fire pit/sunken hearth　　　　
頃　　　　　　time of
開かなく　　    doesn't open.  Can't open?　
負けない    　　as much as possible/unsurpassably
手術　　　　　surgery
頑張って　　　did a fine job of?
成績　　　　　achievement
高等小学校        Some level of school.  Random guy on Internet thinks it's grades 5-8 or 7-8, but the term is no longer used.  "Junior high," I suppose.
出してくれました  took out? NO
ずっと                forever
助けました        helped
生物　　　　　living thing
のように　　　like
試験　　　　　test
合格　　　　　success
変わった　　　changed
研究　　　　　research
やっと　　　    at last
周り　　　　　vicinity
のか？　　　　isn't it?
細菌　　　　　bacteria
数年　　　　　several/few years
博士　　　　　PhD.
一生懸命　　　with utmost effort
何度　　　　　many times
以上　　　　　more
いられません　can't go
しか　　　　　only
黄熱病　　　　yellow fever
調べ　　　　　investigation
制回収　　　　recovery (ed: check this)
墓　　　　　　tomb

Some resource pages

• Japanese Resources
• The Best Resources to Learn JAPANESE for Free Online

Haven't checked them out yet, but it looks promising.

Japanese Graded Readers 3:1:2: 注文の多い料理店

注文                orders
料理店　　　restaurant
きっと            fer sure
鉄砲　　　　gun
撃ちたい       want to shoot
案内               guide
急に   　        suddenly
倒れます       collapse
もちろん       of course
廊下               corridor
喜んで          with pleasure
だけれど      although
賑やか　　  bustling (-na adjective)
かかって　  hanging.  If I read this right, the pic is wrong, which has the 鏡 hanging on the wall, not a 戸
こう　　　  like this
し                  used to list "reasons for multiple states and actions." So it's something like a conjunction.  Works for adjectives at the very least.
おかしい　　strange (-na adjective I think)
脱いで　　  take off (clothes)
裏                  back
ネクタイペン  Tie pin.  I can't figure what this really is, as it's a strange thing to expect a hunter to wear.
財布              wallet
香水              perfume
入れ物          container
塩                  salt
変                  strange, unexpected, suspicious
鍵穴              keyhole
がたがた      rattle
震える          tremble
消えました  disappeared
鳴き              squeal
呼んで          call
安心              relief