Looking for active Naitve English I am looking for an active Naitve English speaker to exchange my Japanese. I want to exchange messages about TV drama, anime, video games, culture, and so on each other.

Cherry blossoms and a Shrine Today, I saw the cherry blossoms when I was running. This cherry tree is an early cherry tree. The standard cherry tree called Someiyoshino don't still bloom. According to Japan Meteorological Agency, They will bloom end of this month in Tokyo. Then, I stop by a small shrine near by my house. Shrine is a place for worshipping Japanese Gods. I made a wish good luck to God.

Dragon Quest (or Dragon Warrior) is 30th anniversary According to the newspaper, Dragon Warrior or Dragon Quest is 30th anniversary. When I was elementary student, it was released. At the time, it was the most famous video games in Japan. When it was released on the day, there are few people who get a day off school or work. It was happened social panic in Japan. All of my classmate's boys bought it and played it as hard as possible. I remenbered the nostalgia of that time.

Typhoon and hurricane is almost the same. I wrote about the tornado on this website yesterday. I had confused tornado and hurricane. The typhoon is almost the same as the hurricane. In Japan, the heavy floods occurred because of double typhoons in last September. The hurricane can also occur concurrently. I will keep my eye on the hurricanes in this summer.

Tornado is not a typhoon Today, my language partner taught me about the tornado in US. After the talking, I was investigated on the internet about the tornado. At first, I had thought the tornado is mostly the same as typhoon. Therefore, I had thought that the tornado also occurs near the ocean. However, according to my investigation, the tornado is frequently occur in the US Midwest. I noticed that I didn't know anything about it even through I have seen tornado's TV program before.

Japanese armor of cardboard I found Japanese armors of cardboard by the internet. This armors are made of cardboard and you can buy it in Japan. The Blue armor is armor of Masamune Date. The red one is armor of Yukimura Sanada. Recently, Yukimura Sanada is famous as a military commander of Sengoku period because his TV drama has been broadcast in Japan. It is pretty cool even through it is made of cardboard.

Old video game entitled "Wizardry" One of my most favorite game is Wizardry.　I heard that the game was produced by American corporation. It's typical Dungeons & Dragons game. I think that there weren't Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy at the time, so I was shocked it because of the sophisticated game system and fantasy setting. We can select a tribes such as human, elf, dwarf and so on in the game. In addition, we can also select a jobs such as fighter, witch, priest and so on. Especially, there are special jobs, for example samurai, ninja. The strongest sword was Japanese sword called Muramasa. I thought that japan is cool at the time.

Dialects of the Japanese language Japan is smaller than other country. However, there are many dialects. I heard that Japanese people of northern regions is muffled because they can't fully open their mouth because of the heavy cold. The pronunciation of words is sometimes quite different. On other hand, the southern regions is also quite different, too. When I went to countryside of Okinawa Prefecture, I couldn't understand their dialects even through I'm a native Japanese. I had a strange feeling.

TV drama entitled "Black Sails" I began to watch the American TV drama entitled "Black Sails". It's pirate's story and we can see a bright blue sea, sailing ships and battles on the sea in the drama. I like pirate's drama or movie and I am interested in the Age of Discovery. There aren't high technologies such as GPS, radar, engine at the time. If we take a voyage without such equipment, we will fear the big ocean and a windstorm so much. I think that I feel the dream because there aren't such technologies.