A walk in a local bookstore is a good way to observe the culture. In a Japanese bookstore I discovered a very interesting book called “英語でTwitter!” (Twitter in English!) It is a book full of short English tweets paired with Japanese translation. The tweets are grouped by categories such as Cosmetic, Work, Relation…etc. Here are some examples:
- Can’t sleep lately.（最近、眠れない。）
- Just had a tooth removed/taken out.（痛み止めが切れて来た。メチャクチャ痛い！）
- Gained 2 kilos this week. Agrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.（今週２キロ増えた．ギャーーー！）
Japan is quite famous for it’s huge variety of manuals, with spectrum of topics including falling love, playing golf, getting married, job hunting, interview, and committing suicide.
While some argue that Twitter is a social network full of useless noise from people broadcasting what kind of sandwich they had for lunch, here is a book full of such examples encouraging you to report every bit of your life that’s very much uninterested to all human kind except yourself. Entertaining cute little book, but not sure if it’s really useful.
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