Learning new words

6 comments

2010/07/15
87 words
by Fredrik Olsen

I just counted all the words I’ve learned so far and have come to the conclusion that we are learning new words at a rate of 23 words per day. We’ve been studying 9 days and gone through 5 chapters in the book and learned ~211 words. Just wanted to let you know that.

Tomorrow I’ll hopefully be buying a camera so you’ll get some pictures and nice videos and stuff in the future.

Also: I like apples, but they’re fucking expensive. Check out Eemmas post on the topic.

6 comments

http://twitter.com/DeXimE DeXimE

Holy shit, 23 words a day?? Wow, that's a LOT…

On topic of buying stuff, might wanna wait a little with the iPhone (assuming you still want one and didn't buy it yet) Tomorrow, Friday 16, Apple will have a press conference about the iPhone 4. I'm very curious what it will be about reading about all the problems mainly with the antenna, it's prolly about that…

http://tetrisrockstar.com/ Fredrik

I can see the future. Apple will go to the press conference and say the exact same thing they said in the letter they sent out right after the “problems” were discovered. I can't buy one anyway, Softbank refuses to unlock any of their phones at any time at all and I don't want to Jailbreak.

http://twitter.com/TommyMappy Maho

23 words per day…!? Wow!!

It's definitely more harder that non-Japanese people learning Japanese than Japanese learning English (since we are familiar with English for a long time), so I'm really impressed by that.
がんばれ～ ^0^

About apples, I thought you said about “Apple computer” XD
Well, I think what Emma analyzed is correct, but more importantly, vegetable's and fruit's prices are really influenced by in season or out of season.
I don't know about other countries, but in Japan apples are fall/winter's fruits, so summer apples are expensive and not so much delicious than winter apples. Apples price in winter is anout 100 yen each. (Don't Sweden has fruits which prices change seasonally, btw??)

For some tips about the major seasonal fruits in Japan:
Spring: Strawberry, Cherry, plum
Summer: Watermelon, Melon(Cantaloupe), Maskmelon, Peach(delicious!!!), Grape, Fig, Sorudamu(I don't know Englisih name of this…), Biwa(same with this), Chinese citron
Fall: Sand pear, Japanese persimmon, Grape,
Winter: APPLES!!, Mandarin orange,

Othere furits like Pineaple, Orenge, Banana, etc… are mostly imported, so those prices are constant over time.

http://tetrisrockstar.com/ Fredrik

We have seasonal fruits to some degree as well, but prices really don't vary that much, it's more about availability. During summer Swedish strawberries start showing up and they can vary in price _a lot_. There's a lot of mandarins in winter but it costs bascially the same as in the summer anyway. And all fruit is a lot cheaper in Sweden than in Japan. I can buy a kilo of nice big table grapes in Sweden for about 500 yen. Here 300-400g of table grapes is 1000 yen. So it's basically 4 times more expensive here in Japan

http://twitter.com/TommyMappy Maho

Oh wow, I didn't know that D:
Then I'm not sure what makes that much difference in fruits prices between Japan and Sweden…
Maybe amount of production?? Hmm… X__x

http://tetrisrockstar.com/ Fredrik

I think it's because we import basically all our fruits. And as Eemma pointed out, we don't have these (sort of insane ) production procedures where we wrap apples in paper and stuff like that.

Basically.. I think it's cheaper because it's “lower quality” and imported from counties with a lot of production like Spain.