I like European and Amarican TV dramas, especially Desperate Housewives, an American drama. In America season 4 is now on the air. It is the normal situation that we Japanese cannot watch overseas dramas in real time because of the language barrier. We have to wait to watch it until the original transcript is translated into Japanese. Sometimes that annoys me. Season 3 has just finished in Japan while Americans are watching season 4 in America. Unfortunately we have to wait to watch season 4 for at least 6 months.
Last week my British friend lent me a DVD, including some episodes of season 4 that had been recorded in America. Fabulous! I'm very glad to be able to watch season 4's episodes earlier. As all episodes are only in English, it's useful for me to improve my English skills. I watched one episode the other day. Though all the characters are very familiar to me, I could hear what they said easily. I can enjoy it for a while. I'm very happy.
Why does Desparate Housewives attract me? I think it's because it is not categorized only as home comedy and it includes some genres such as mystery, romance and thriller. As the 5 main women in the drama are older than me, I'm very curious about everything that they do and think in their daily lives. Of course the way of life is very different between Japanese and Americans. I also like to discover the cultual differences while watching Desperate Housewives.
Tuesday, 27 May 2008
Medaka
My father gave me some Medakas that were a kind of fish three weeks ago. I enjoyed them. What can I call them in English? Though I was looking for the word in a Japanese-English dictionary, there wasn't the exact word that I was looking for. One dictionary says Medaka means "Japanese rice-fish" and another says it's "Oryzias latipes" or "killifish". I wonder if Medaka is a Japanese fish. It's interesting for me to know that it's an original Japanese fish. Certainly, Medaka is a Japanese word in which "Me" means eyes and "daka" means highly positioned, that is, "Me-daka" means fishes that have eyes highly positioned. Funny that I didn't notice before!
I bought an aquarium and moved them to the new house. As I counted them while moving, I figured out how many Medakas I had. That's 30 Medakas! After moving to the aquarium, they swam comfortably in the wider place. Yesterday night, my husband and I found a lot of roe and removed the only roe to the other container to prevent the adult fish from eating them. According to information about Medakas, the roe hatches after about 10 days. We're looking forward to meeting new Medakas.
Although we didn't find that Medakas were very pretty before we had them, we like them very much and we think they are as lovely as dogs and cats. I told my French friend about Medakas and he just said "Japanese like fish very much." I wonder if we Japanese really love fish.
I bought an aquarium and moved them to the new house. As I counted them while moving, I figured out how many Medakas I had. That's 30 Medakas! After moving to the aquarium, they swam comfortably in the wider place. Yesterday night, my husband and I found a lot of roe and removed the only roe to the other container to prevent the adult fish from eating them. According to information about Medakas, the roe hatches after about 10 days. We're looking forward to meeting new Medakas.
Although we didn't find that Medakas were very pretty before we had them, we like them very much and we think they are as lovely as dogs and cats. I told my French friend about Medakas and he just said "Japanese like fish very much." I wonder if we Japanese really love fish.
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