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Tried & Tested: Japanese Straight Perm – Unfold Tokyo
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Discovering the food, life, and love of Japan. Tried and Tested: Japanese Straight Perm. The stuff of dreams🙂. Japanese straight perms are magic given to us by the gods. Why else would ‘kami’ mean both ‘god’ and ‘hair’? I’m ignoring the ‘paper’ meaning for argument’s sake). On a usual day I had been able to make my hair manageable…. But then came Japan. And with it, the worst humidity you can imagine. So what’s a girl in Japan to do? Get a straight perm. American straight perm pricing: above $400. One t...
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Foreign Objects: Fun with the Internet in Two Languages
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Sunday, October 4, 2015. Fun with the Internet in Two Languages. As a Japanese language learner and English teacher, I know how often language learners try to speak by translating their thoughts. For example let's start with the most important meal of the day, breakfast vs. 朝ごはん!Which one has more calories? It would seem "cute" is a word English speakers use more for things and animals, but 可愛い is sure used with young women a lot! Now this gets personal, haha. When we got engaged I never once conside...