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Edo from Panama. PhD candidate in Japan - studied agriculture 🌄 | Spanish | English |日本語が下手なので添削オッケーです 😉 #langtwt ...I like running, novels & video games.

Osaka-fu, Japan
Joined July 2020
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@tatamilife
tatamilife
5 months
I'll track all the words that I don't know in Japanese. This will be an anki deck in twitter format. There's sixty billion words that I don't know in Japanese so let's start. And sorry if there are curse words or foul language. No. 1 出馬 #日本語 #ツイッター暗記 #lngtwt
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@tatamilife
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2 years
I'm actually displeased with the JLPT N2. I am happy that I learned new words, grammar and I completed an objective which was increasing my Japanese language ability. But the content of the test was impractical and pretentious. The worst was: 90% of the test was not in my books.
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@tatamilife
tatamilife
6 months
Shinkansen trains are too friggin' good. Airplanes can be faster, "less travel time" but it takes a 3000 years to get to airports, you have to go through airport security, Boeing is working hard to kill you, etc. You can board and get off a shinkansen in the middle of big cities.
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@tatamilife
tatamilife
1 year
Is this something new and/or only in Japan? I don't know because we haven't bought pans and pots in 4 years. Now they sell pots and frying pans without the handle which facilitates storage, you can buy extra handles too. We bought the set at a Donki in Osaka for ¥5,000 #良いすね
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@tatamilife
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1 year
Japan, official language Japanese. ~signs and announcements with complementary Eng/Chinese/Korean~ (some people): Why is stuff written in Japanese ??????? ~monolinguals~ My dude you travelled to another country knowing that Japanese is the official language, what did u expect?
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@tatamilife
tatamilife
6 months
Before coming to Japan, the best advice I got from a friend was: Our culture is very different from theirs, you won't understand some things, don't be stupid enough to think that you'll be able to change how things work over there. And we've been happy in Japan.
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@tatamilife
tatamilife
6 months
In order to become a permanent resident of Japan or to obtain the Japanese citizenship you have to learn the codes of the saizeriya menu. They recently changed the menu so be sure to verify what you're learning ~in perfect pitch accent of course~
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@tatamilife
tatamilife
8 months
The questions linger, 1) If Japan is so bad, why stay 2) Do you live comfortably in Japan 3) Is there any country that is free of societal issues 4) Is Japan supposed to be free of problems 5) Do you engage in activism to help change issues in Japan 6) Do you block easily 🤣
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@tatamilife
tatamilife
1 year
Last year was the same assholery by the venues where the JLPT takes place. Both places are universities. What is it about garbage that it's so difficult to handle? How much money are the organizers saving by not allowing proper disposal of garbage? The signs even say JLPT 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️
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@tatamilife
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1 year
Wuzzup. Today I have 5 years living in Japan. We had to celebrate it with very local food.
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@tatamilife
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5 months
I am officially 39 years old. What I'm still trying to learn is: tempus fugit. All I can say so far is, be with whom... seek for and do what... makes you happy.
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@tatamilife
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1 year
Japan is great. I like it very much. It has its issues like any place. Bad things happen everywhere. You don't like it that Japan is great? Go somewhere else. Go to your perfect utopia wherever that is. No utopia? Then sorry to say it but stfu.
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@tatamilife
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8 months
Newcomers to gaikokujin twitter should be aware that the terrain is clearly divided. One side has people that "want Japan to change" 'cause they know better. They are "activists". Some don't even live in Japan. The other side lives happily in Japan although aware of its problems.
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@tatamilife
tatamilife
7 months
I was looking for a place to kill time. Starbucks was packed. I'm at Kichioji's Atre and then I saw the magical words: Seattle's Best Coffee = CINNABON. Fuck starbucks and their crappy pastries. Cinnabon rules all sweets, except mille-feuille.
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@tatamilife
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2 years
怖い
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@tatamilife
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2 years
I failed the JLPT again. This time I failed the N2 by 6 points. I failed the N3 by 1 point 🤣🤣🤣 #JLPT #日本語能力試験 #日本語
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@tatamilife
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5 months
Immigrant. Dont give me that expat shait.
@JapanToday
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@tatamilife
tatamilife
7 months
Checking out this property to buy. The view is great. The neighbors are friendly. Plenty of entertainment and tanuki izakayas.
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@tatamilife
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5 months
My first hanami run 🥰✨
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@tatamilife
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2 years
The main reason why I am triggered is that there should be a clear map of the contents of everything that can come up on the JLPT N2 (and also the others?). If you don't explore the whole map... Okay then, that would explain why you didn't do well on the test.
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@tatamilife
tatamilife
1 year
Osaka why 😭🥰 The owners and diners were so friendly. When people came in they greeted everyone. We were like wuuuuuuuut, we had never experienced that in 5 years.
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@tatamilife
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Next year I'll be 40 years old. But 40 is still part of the 30s, count the decades 👁️👄👁️
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@tatamilife
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2 years
With no official topic content and a free-for-all of editorials giving you varied topics that don't end up in the test... It's like me teaching about cutlery and then I put a test about the orbits of celestial objects.
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@tatamilife
tatamilife
2 years
I studied a lot but I'm not language genius. And I used several books which come from several authors and editorials. I put a 2000 vocab book into anki droid, and although I didn't memorized it all... I studied a lot of it. But most of what I practiced didn't appear in the test?
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@tatamilife
tatamilife
7 months
Is this the capital of the weeb Kingdom? Akihabara, where everyone speaks in perfect pitch accent?
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@tatamilife
tatamilife
2 years
So the preparation books and the JLPT N2 seem to be disconnected? I have a graduate degree in higher education and although I'm not an expert in education, it is crucial to understand the relationship between a set of topics that are taught and how each one is evaluated.
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@tatamilife
tatamilife
6 months
Same person same month. And it aways happens to me that I do a slight change of appearance and immediately afterwards I wanna go back. But I feel that my 2024 has finally started and needed a change. Jan, Feb, Mar (the first 2/3) were hectic. My real crazy 2024 starts now.
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@tatamilife
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5 months
I would say 20% of men don't wash their hands after using the bathroom. I came up with this number out of my ass. But seriously there's disgusting men that touch their junk and then we have to touch the same handles on trains and doors.
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@tatamilife
tatamilife
7 months
Tomorrow I have family from Panama coming to Japan. I have an aunt that has been excited for years about coming for sightseeing and had to cancel because of the pandemic. I had to cram important and long experiments in a short time. It all went fine 😭 phew What a relief
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@tatamilife
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1 year
I got blocked! 🤣 He boasts to be part of a media organization. Freedom of speech right? And as soon as someone disagrees with him, you get the ban hammer. He didn't like being hit back with the same sarcasm he was using... So he proceeded to block me. How mature of him.
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@tatamilife
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3 months
Yesterday was Tokyo time. Today is Osaka time.
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@tatamilife
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2 years
Back to studying Japanese. This time I'm aiming for the N2. I'm trying with 1 hour per day.
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@tatamilife
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20 days
Me in my journey with learning Japanese 😑
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@tatamilife
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3 months
So... I got my haircut at fastcut for ¥1,345. I kid you not the lady that did my haircut has to be in her mid 60s, and the cool lady understood what I asked. My professor doesn't say anything but I bet it grinds his gears. As for my lab mates, they ask if I got a perm 😏
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@tatamilife
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2 years
The problems seems to be that there is a sea of books for teaching Japanese for JLPT prep and you're trusting the contents of all these books but most of it doesn't appear on the test? In that case why take the test?
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@tatamilife
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5 months
Just outside of Osaka Castle 😬
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@tatamilife
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1 year
お  い   し    い
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@tatamilife
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6 months
I arrived today in Tokyo/Chiba just to celebrate my labmates' graduation and tomorrow I'll go back to Osaka. I'll miss my buddies, they are the best labmates I've had 😭
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@tatamilife
tatamilife
7 months
いきなり美味しい
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@tatamilife
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7 months
Today was too much food Too freakin' much ༼⁠⁰⁠o⁠⁰⁠;⁠༽
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@tatamilife
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4 months
Can you smell it? Cheese cheese 😭
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@tatamilife
tatamilife
2 years
I am still confident in my Japanese ability because I studied 2-3 years in Panama + 4 years here in Japan while also being immersed in the language. I don't speak perfectly but I can communicate pretty well because of my effort and the kindness of people teaching Japanese.
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@tatamilife
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6 months
Amen to this. This should be the creed for the conceited foreigners that migrate to Japan and to lots of other countries, where they demand that everything should be changed for them instead of adapting. Some adapt but even so they criticize like they are perfection incarnate.
@neon_sky_2023
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@bunburyoudouuk It's hard to live in Japan even for us Japanese. But that is our fate, and it's the hill we must die on. Foreigners do not share our fate. Many westerners seem to think that everything should be about choice, or that freedom to do whatever you want is the greatest virtue.
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2 years
It feels good that I no longer have to study every day. Studying is good but having a rest from studying is also good. Everything in moderation, including moderation.
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@tatamilife
tatamilife
1 year
Meet Chai chan ❤️ she's 4 months old and was rescued from Tokushima ken. Today we adopted her. She's now an Osaka nyanko chan.
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1 year
The Pokemon drone light show at Minato Mirai in Yokohama on 23-8-14 during the #PokemonWCS2023 ...it was great!
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@tatamilife
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14 days
I know a foreigner that changed his last name to his Japanese wife's last name. I'm not him and I'm not in his shoes. But I don't see the point, legally he has the same rights, name changed or not. Or am I wrong? I'm also not a fan of people changing their names for marriage.
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@tatamilife
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6 months
I always wondered for whom they created this mini sized beer. It's a neko beer keg.
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@tatamilife
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6 months
Soon to be 39 spins around the sun... 光陰矢の如し. Tomorrow I'll be 92 yo 'cause 光陰矢の如し. How long do you think you'll live? No one knows really. Sexy Ms. 死神 is always present 🤣
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@tatamilife
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7 months
Last night we went to teamLab PLANETS Tokyo in Toyosu. It was awesome.
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@tatamilife
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4 months
世界一番強い招き猫でしょう
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@tatamilife
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4 months
We ordered 8 takoyaki, got 10. Ordered karage and got a super sized version. The neighborhood izakaya guys are so friendly 🥰
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@tatamilife
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8 months
6) Do you block easily? 🤣 They also shadow retweet the crap that "randos" say on the Internet and block people. They trash talk/criticize/insult when you can't respond. How brave. And these brilliant individuals want societies to be better. Isn't that right @yo_samuteki ?
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8 months
The questions linger, 1) If Japan is so bad, why stay 2) Do you live comfortably in Japan 3) Is there any country that is free of societal issues 4) Is Japan supposed to be free of problems 5) Do you engage in activism to help change issues in Japan 6) Do you block easily 🤣
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@tatamilife
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2 years
もうすぐ勉強地獄が終わる。面白いのはごちゃごちゃ勉強をしていたけど自信が増えなかった。完璧な日本語はまだ遠い!現在に理解と自分の言いたいことだけは大切だと思う。適当かどうか全然かまわない。母語としても100パ完璧じゃないから,まーいいか。
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4 months
30年前かな~ 姉と俺と母(撮影者)
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4 months
強火は良いかな~ (⁠=⁠`⁠ェ⁠´⁠=⁠)
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@tatamilife
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9 months
I was taking random pics and one kind store oneesan asked if I wanted a pic with Link. I agreed.
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5 months
Yesterday we did hanami again 😈 Lots of people ranging from 20s all the way up to 40s. The majority of groups were Japanese obviously, but there were several groups of us foreigners. Everyone having a good time. No drama, no fights, no violence. But but but I'm from Seattle 🤭
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@tatamilife
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10 months
I love strawberry anything so... Best 🍓 flavored soft serve I've ever had
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@tatamilife
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8 months
Today was my first time running since Dec 11th. I had a cold that lasted for three weeks, I felt fine with minor symptoms but I just don't fuck around with respiratory ailments in cold weather (👈🏻although I love this). It goes against my tropical blood.
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10 months
Half of my 1st novel. 200 pages. 6 months worth of writing almost every day. 1000 words per day. 2 years editing at a snail's pace. The genre is fiction. I want this friggin' thing published. I'll sell it door to door 🤣🤣🤣
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5 months
このバターミルクを見た時になんじゃこりゃ~言ったのに思ったより美味しかった。
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@tatamilife
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2 years
Japón, Japan, 日本 🥰 Very raw editing but there ya go. I hope that you like it.
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@tatamilife
tatamilife
6 months
Yes this is me waiting 10 minutes in line to buy one taiyaki. Is today the international taiyaki day? There were two customers buying bulks of taiyaki.
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@tatamilife
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2 years
Hey beautiful people! Check out this clip of my new video where I take you to the mountains of Yamanouchi in Nagano prefecture to see the snow NINJA monkeys. I hope that you like it and btw merry Christmas and happy holidays!
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tatamilife
1 year
やっと涼しい天候が来た
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tatamilife
6 months
There's a couple of Gaijin Twitter Karens, whom I don't follow and are not followed by anyone I follow, that always come to my posts with their Karenistic opinions. Why bother? Stay in your "whining" lane. I stay in my "Japan boot licking" lane. I still won't block. I refuse.
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6 months
Slowly getting back at it. January and February were too crazy to run. Amateur running = not breaking any world records but I luv it. It's good to do the things you love and that bring you happiness but if you're not a real elite: 1) don't overdo it 2) don't brag babe, u suck 🤭
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tatamilife
2 years
All about souvenirs in Japan! Omiyage University prepared this special lecture so that you can take good decisions when you have to buy souvenirs in Japan.
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7 months
I love Japan. 5 years in. Bad shit happens here and anywhere. But Japan has lots of good things, there's lots of good Japanese citizens, lots of good foreigners living in Japan (including the whiners) 🤣 I LOVE LIVING IN JAPAN You don't like it? Tough titty said the kitty 😿
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9 months
Byeeee Osaka ❤️
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1 year
I was unfollowed and rt (screencaps and someone also covered my details) as a clown for a simple joke that is reality: people who fail to adapt in Japan and expect Japan to adapt to them. The audacity of these people, the Karens of gaikokujin twitter.
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tatamilife
7 months
Chai now has a little sister. Her name is Latte. I wanted to name her Gunslinger but my wife didn't allow it 🤣 Chai & Latte Chai Latte The Tatamilife pet cafe is now open for business. They'll have to earn their churu and dry food.
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5 months
This gentleman is complaining about racism and lack of diversity in Japan and then he says: "The American in me is itching." Nationalities aren't a special superpower. What? my nationality calls for me to impose it on the country where I am a foreigner? Just because yeaaaah
@Gaijinotousan
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🇯🇵👨🏾‍🚀 Saying The Quiet Part Loud The go home foreigner Japan for the Japanese gang has found me on twitter. I suppose this was inevitable. So unpleasant. I’m sure most of them are harmless but man oh man what a bummer. I specifically came here because Japan from the
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1 year
雑草を抜いた
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2 years
~JLPT practice and pikachu donut~ nights
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2 years
Can I complain to the omawari san tachi that the JLPT N2 was super hard? Maybe I'll complain to Goofey san. The JLPT was at a secret location near Shin-Urayasu station, very close to Maihama station where Mickey lives. So we came to the Disney store and later we'll feast and 😭🤣
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1 year
It's backwards (大阪ようこそ) and my hair is getting crazy but good vibes from Osaka. I almost left my kindle on the seat of a train and the nice lady that was seating in front of us was already giving it to me.
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1 year
DINNER is almost served. I hope you had a good day or have a good one (if your 問題 is just starting 🤭)
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1 year
299円のワインは思ったより美味しいです(笑)
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tatamilife
8 months
Shake shaaaaack
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tatamilife
4 months
More pics from yesterday around Osaka castle. We also learned that instead of lining up to buy tickets for the castle, you can buy them online and skip the line. Protip for you 😘
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tatamilife
10 months
Before going for a run I stopped at an eyeglasses shop very close to home. The attendant was super nice in helping me choose my glasses, had my prescription checked and told me that they would be ready in 20 mins. I was expecting something like come back in 4 business days 🤭
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tatamilife
6 months
The guy from the group of people that always concentrate on criticizing Japan, its people and culture. J A P A N I S N O T P E R F E C T But it's pretty good with lots of nice people. I'm not gonna schadenfreude on his situation but he hides some replies 🤦🏻 what a guy
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@tatamilife
tatamilife
5 months
Root beer is the best soft drink. Nothing to discuss here.
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tatamilife
4 months
Got the lab to myself 😈 I can 使い放題 all the equipment. Look at my mischievous mood. Also the day is clear outside, and look at the mops we use for the sterile room (lower right cornah), dirty mops and a nice landscape... What else can you desire in ライフ?
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1 year
My first run in Osaka (and in Kansai?) (⁠☆⁠▽⁠☆⁠) I love my river road back in Chiba but I already love the Osaka one.
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5 months
This is a scam. They look delicious, the presentation is amazing but they taste kinda meh
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tatamilife
2 years
フェリズナビダッド 🤭
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tatamilife
2 years
写真を撮ったの場所はパナマ市のCasco Antiguoというのです。この観光地の名前の意味は[古い町]です。元町は海賊に破壊されましたのでCasco Antiguoは350年前に設立しました。
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@tatamilife
tatamilife
1 year
毎回ランニングの帰る時にドミノピザに過って目を離すの大変な事分かりますか?
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tatamilife
7 months
Today I was fearless in walking for 20 mins with this bouquet and I sensed curious stares from females. Some males would also stare, but the stare of young, middle and elderly females was intense. Of course they were looking at the flowers but it was weird. Reverse Valentine's?
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6 months
Today we travelled in time to the Osaka Museum of Housing and Living.
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6 months
Darth Chai is veryfying that my presentation is free of errors.
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tatamilife
2 years
一昨日同僚皆さんにナチョスを作った。褒められたけど本当に美味しかったかどうか分からん🤔
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tatamilife
1 month
After 6 years in Japan (next month) we finally got a bed. My wife likes to assemble furniture, I only helped her a little bit. She assembled 95 % of the bed. Lucky me 🤭
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@tatamilife
tatamilife
2 years
And some 1st class ultra premium gourmet nutrition to get my butt cracking with lightning ⚡
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@tatamilife
tatamilife
6 months
I have touchakued in Sendai.
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@tatamilife
tatamilife
2 years
Hello beautiful people! Here's a small clip from my new video where I talk about my experience with the JLPT N2 (from registration to taking the test). I hope that you enjoy the silliness. Don't take it too seriously :D #JLPT #日本語能力試験 #日本語
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@tatamilife
tatamilife
2 years
Delicious food!!!
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