Do you know NHK’s “Little Charo” ?
NHKの『リトルチャロ』をしていますか？
It is a very cute story of a Japanese dog looking for his friends in America.
The bilingual books are published monthly. The TV version is easier than the radio one.
Level: from high beginner
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福島 県 福島 市 入江町 で フランス語、 ドイツ語、 英語 を 勉強しましょう。
I ordered and received the following book:
The Secret Life of Words – How English became English
Level: intermediate-advanced or very interested in the topic
Many words in English come from French, German etc, with sometimes a very different meaning from the original…
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福島 県 福島 市 入江町 で フランス語、 ドイツ語、 英語 を 勉強しましょう。
I added a few new pictures of my cats Momo and Chouchou on my cats’ blog…
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福島 県 福島 市 入江町 で フランス語、 ドイツ語、 英語 を 勉強しましょう。
Here is my banana muffin recipe:
Preheat the over to 180 C.
In one bowl, mash 2 bananas, add 40 to 50cc milk and two table spoons (or Japanese large spoons) of sugar. Mix well.
mashed bananas
In another bowl, add about 200 gr cake flour (including wholewheat cake flour to taste) and about 40-50 gr of room temperature butter. Mix together. Add 2 small tea spoons of salt and two tea spoons of baking powder. Mix.
four mix
Add banana mix to the flour mix and mix some more.
It makes about 7 muffins. Put into the muffin pan.
Bake about 30 minutes. I usually leave the muffins a little longer in the oven while it cools down.
Let the muffins cool down on a grid.
Eat warm. Keep in the fridge. I warm the cold muffins in our oven toaster.
PS: I tried a different version for apple muffins. Once the result is nice, I will post the recipe.
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福島 県 福島 市 入江町 で フランス語、 ドイツ語、 英語 を 勉強しましょう。
… and I was worried that my students would feel cold in the classroom.
So, I knitted the following:
a knee cover or ひさかけ in Japanese
Then, I thought that the zabuton would possibly not be warm enough, so I knitted the following:
a seat cover
The result is here, with the knee cover folded:
Now, hopefully, no student will feel cold…
And I just started to knit a seat cover for me too… 
Hopefully, it will be finished before it gets any colder…
UPDATE: I finished it and started working on a knee cover for myself…
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福島 県 福島 市 入江町 で フランス語、 ドイツ語、 英語 を 勉強しましょう。
Winter is come, slowly… It can be cold (especially in Europe now). But it is also beautiful…
And a good time to study, maybe…
冬がそろそろ来ますね。。。寒いけど、きれいですね。。。
It is a little small, but can you see the seasons changing ?
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福島 県 福島 市 入江町 で フランス語、 ドイツ語、 英語 を 勉強しましょう。
Snow is very nice on the mountains. But in the cities, it can be very troublesome…
We are only December and Switzerland is experiencing its first snow.
You can see some pictures here…
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福島 県 福島 市 入江町 で フランス語、 ドイツ語、 英語 を 勉強しましょう。
Le curry n’est pas un plat national suisse, mais devient de plus en plus populaire…
Voici un article du Matin, avec des recettes…
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福島 県 福島 市 入江町 で フランス語、 ドイツ語、 英語 を 勉強しましょう。
（アンヌローズのおばさんのレモンケーキ）
Ingredients:
* Dough:
250 g butter
250 g sugar
5 eggs
Zest of 2 lemons
250 g flour
2 tbsp baking powder
Some salt
* Sweet lemon juice:
20 ml lemon juice
200 g powdered sugar
Preparation:
Mix butter and sugar until the mixture’s color becomes whitish. Add the eggs one after another while mixing. Add zest, flour, baking powder and salt. Put into a rectangular baking pan (I usually line the pan with baking paper). Bake for about 1 hour at 180 C.
Mix the lemon juice and the powdered sugar. Once the cake is baked, take it out of the oven and leave it in the pan. Make holes in the cake using chopsticks. Pour the sweet lemon juice on the cake, one tablespoon at a time. Refrigerate when cool. It is best eaten cold. You can keep it for a couple of days or freeze it.
Comments:
This Swiss recipe has been passed down in the family on my mom’s side.
You can also adapt the recipe with x portions of 50 g butter, sugar, flour and 1 egg.
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福島 県 福島 市 入江町 で フランス語、 ドイツ語、 英語 を 勉強しましょう。
