Archive for March 21st, 2010

I was just going through my bookmarks and organizing them when I found a website which I bookmarked and kind of forgotten about it. It’s Tenso.com. It is a shipping forwarding company based in Japan. If you ever tried to buy items from Japan most probably you would know about how some Japanese companies would require a Japan shipping address and won’t deliver overseas. That is when Tenso comes in the picture. You can get them to collect the product you bought and they will deliver it to you for a small fee.

So I browsed around to see the products that I can potentially buy – from body acne treatment to the latest tamagotchis. All you can buy at a cheaper price directly from Japan. Of course I checked the Japanese Electronic dictionaries as well. Hah! the prices are unbelievably cheaper even combined with shipping fees than what I can get if I buy it from anywhere else. I suppose I’ll be getting a e-dictionary sooner than expected??

If you ever listened to Japanese speakers speaking you may have come acrossed or heard ‘eto’ and ‘ano’. You wonder what they mean? Well, nothing actually. They are equivalent to English ‘hmm..’ or ‘errr…’. Fillers is what some people would call them if they are thinking about what to say next.

In the last Japanese class I attended, the teacher mentioned about this and told us to try to use ‘eto’ or ‘ano’ instead of ‘hmm’ when we were thinking about what to say in Japanese. It was a little amusing to think that we actually have to practice to say, ‘hmmm’ in Japanese?? LOL But if ‘that’ what would make us sound a little bit more Japanese well… what the heck.