[REAL Japanese] I watch it.

Hi, finally we have got into Golden Week. YEAH! Golden Week is a week off for almost all of Japanese at the first week on May. So I slept for 8 hours, and went to the gym, and watched DVD today.

Today's tweet in Japanese, picked up

今日はフィフティー・フィフティー観たよー。考えさせられたー。ジョセフ・ゴードンも好きだわー。 I have watched 50:50 today. It was though-provoking. And I like Joseph Gordon too;))

— Tetsu in Japanさん (@shareyourjapan) 2013年4月27日

Today's kanji picked up, meaning "to watch"

The meaning

• watch

The pronunciation

• みる　miru

The usage

I think you are confused with "観" and "見". "見" is translated to see, and "観" is translated to watch. "観" is a kind of to enjoy artistic things. "見" is to just see physically.

Today's other Japanese words

• 今日（きょう）kyou :today
• 好き（すき）suki：like
• 考える（かんがえる）kangaeru：thought-provoking

FYI

He is Joseph Gordon, starring 50:50, Inception, (500)Days of Summer, and so on.

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[REAL Japanese] I have settled it down.

Today's tweet in Japanese picked up

とりあえず一段落（ひとだんらんく）した～。 I could settled it down for now.

— Tetsu in Japanさん (@shareyourjapan) 2013年4月24日

Today's Japanese kanji meaning "to settle down"

The meaning

• paragraph
• a part of something

The pronunciation

ひとだんらく　hitodanraku

The usage

"一段落する" here means that I finished a part of work, but still I have things to do. However, this is one of the meanings it has. There are other meanings which "一段落する" has. For example,

• Inflation in Japan has stopped. 日本のインフレも一段落した。

Can you grasp what "一段落する" means? I think it is close to " to settle", isn't it?

Today's other Japanese words

• とりあえず(toriaezu):for now

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[REAL Japanese] It is raining heavily.

Hi everyone. I think I've been keeping it updated. Don't you think? Today's my tweet picked up is the below.

Today's Japanese tweet

It is heavily raining today in Tokyo, but I have a plan to go to meet with someone.雨ひどいけど今日は出かけなきゃ～。

— Tetsu in Japanさん (@shareyourjapan) 2013年4月20日

Today's kanji meaning "today"

So, I will pick up the kanji below.

The meaning

Today

The pronunciation

・きょう kyou

Today's grammar

「なきゃ」 is a casual expression of　「なければならない」 meaning "must".

Today's other Japanese words

• 雨(ame):rain
• ひどい（hidoi):terrible→in this case, I translated "to rain heavily" to "雨がひどい".

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[REAL Japanese] I'm busy

Hi guys,Today's my tweet picked up is the below.

ぎゃー、忙しいのに何とかめど立ったけど、それでもやることがまだ多いので気は抜けないな。I've found the way to make it finished, but still tons of work to be done. Can't feel easy yet.

— Tetsu in Japanさん (@shareyourjapan) 2013年4月18日

Today's kanji meaning "busy"

I'm picking the word below. Can you guess the meaning?

The meaning

Busy

The pronunciation

・いそがしいisogashii

・ぼうbou

Today's Japanese grammar

Look at the "忙しい「の」に", the「の」 does have a meaning of "that", like " The truth is that I am busy.". This is a very casual expression.

「～だけど、・・・だ」 is equals to "・・・ although　～".

If any question arise, please let me know.

Today's other Japanese words

• ぎゃー(gya-):just a echo-sound to express shocked, or frighten feeling
• 何とか（nantoka):somehow
• めどが立つ(medogatatsu)：to get how long it will take to finish something
• けど(kedo):but
• それでも(soredemo)：still
• やること(yarukoto)：things to do
• まだ(mada):yet
• 多い(ooi)：many
• 気を抜けない(kiwonukenai)：can't feel easy

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[REAL Japanese] ごーるでんうぃーくはやくこないかな～

Hello everyone. Long time no see. I've been thinking what kind of content works best for you, and today I've just hit with this idea. The concept is, "INTRODUCING REAL JAPANESE!" I sometimes tweet only in Japanese on Twitter, which is a real Japanese. So I'm gonna embed it and explain about it for you .So, today's fresh Japanese is below you can see.

ゴールデンウィーク早くこないかな～
— Tetsu in Japanさん (@shareyourjapan) 2013年4月15日

This is said like, "I can't wait for Golden Week." in English

• Katakana:ゴールデンウィーク
• Hiragana:ごーるでんうぃーく
• Kanji：早くこないかな～
• Hiranagan：はやくこないかな～
• Romaji：hayaku konai kana

And Golden week is an annual long holiday week in the first week on May. The length of it depends on each year. This year, it is cut in half unfortunately. Everybody is getting disappointed about it. How about in your country? Do you have anything you are waiting for?

See you next time.

Today's Japanese words

• 早い　はやい　hayai :early
• 早く：早い is conjugated to 早く when it modify a verb.
• 来る　来る kuru : come
• 来ない：来る is conjugated to 来ない when used for a question or negative sentence.
• 来ないかな：かな is put to express a question.

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