Simple Stories

This is the story of a fictional boy, his fictional laptop and the fictional operating system “Mado QG”, a piece of software (in the most liberal sense of that word) that takes its sweet time starting up. It’s all a thinly veiled jab at Microsoft Windows, with the added benefit of being a fun way to learn some Japanese...

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In the pattern of Dick and Jane, here is another short “children’s story” in Japanese, about a boy called Kenya (yes, that is a Japanese name) who hates waking up. Explanations are at the bottom. Note: many words have multiple meanings, but it would be too overwhelming to cover them all, so only one meaning per word (i.e. the...

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