‘Healthy’ and ‘Burger’. Have you ever heard anybody to use these two English words (英単語) together in one sentence? I haven’t. Don’t get me wrong I like burgers a lot, but I try to eat them as little as possible. Luckily here in Japan the food options are so great that I rarely feel the need […]
Do You Kyoto?
Once in a while on my way to Smith’s Katsura (スミス英会話 桂) I see a small turquoise blue electric car passing by on the road. This particular car caught my attention on many occasions, because it has a large white slogan ‘Do You Kyoto?’ on both sides. I’ve wondered about the slogan every time I saw […]
Misao Okawa’s 115th Birthday.
Do you know what happened in 1898? Let me give you a hand. North Petherton became the first town in Britain to have street lights lit by acetylene gas. Marrie and Pierre Curie announced discovery of a substance they call radium. Robert Allison became a first person to purchase an American-built automobile when he bought […]
