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漢字大好き - I Love Kanji Learn → Beginner Brace yourself, folks, for this lesson will introduce to you your first set of Kanji evah. The chances are that you are going to be very confused, but we'll take it slowly and things will be explained thoroughly. I want to stress this right now, do not try to memorize the on'yomi and kun'yomi. Ready now? The Kanji One If you recall from the radicals you learned previously, this one meant "one." There are countless words you can make with this Kanji (it's quite common - the second most used in newspapers). 一ばん - the first, the most (ie most favorite) 一つ - one (thing) 一ぽん - one (cyllindrical object - eg a cup) 一ど - one time 一ぶ - one part Two If we add one stick to another stick, then in the pile we have a total of two sticks. 二つめ - the second (in a series) 二ど - second time 二がつ - February (literally "second month") 二かい - (doing something) twice 二り - two people Three On'yomi: サン Kun'yomi: みっ・つ、み・つ Made of: one and two Ten Now we've got what looks like a plus sign. Clone Sum Up

Photography iPhone Cases Popular Photography All « PrevNext » « Prev1234 ... 80Next » Video Transcript What is art? From the materials we use to the hands that ply them, we match the care that goes into everything we make to that of the artist that designed it. It begins with those thousands of artists entrusting their original work to another. It's the craftsmen that process, sort, inspect and pack your case. It's the high density materials that ensure premium protection. It's the proprietary inks that mean the design you buy is the design you get. All together, thousands of steps were taken to make your iPhone Case. This is our process. This is our art.

How To Draw A Wave | Club Of The Waves This art tutorial, kindly donated by surfing comic strip illustrator and surf artist Bob Penuelas covers how to draw a wave the Wilbur Kookmeyer way! If you're like me, then you've probably spent a lot of time in high school class daydreaming and doodling a thousand perfect cartoon waves in your notebook. It's safe to say that ninety percent of us surfers have a habit of scribbling perfect waves whenever a pencil is in our hands. Hopefully the following pointers will help you change your throw-away wave doodles into actual compelling artwork that you want to keep forever. Remember, there are millions of ways to draw a wave and hopefully with these simple pointers you'll find a million more. So, have fun. Drawing a basic wave The following illustrations and captions by Bob Penuelas take you through the basic steps of drawing a wave… Step 1 Sketch in the basic shape of the curl, spray, foam and base of the wave. Step 2 Step 3 Step 4 Add the rest of the flow lines. Step 5 Step 6 Tips… Paddler's view

Learn Japanese Online for Free - it's fun with easy flash quizes! promotion THESE OFFICIAL RULES ("RULES") ARE A LEGALLY BINDING AGREEMENT BY AND BETWEEN PARTICIPANT AND SPONSOR (DEFINED BELOW) AND GOVERNS ENTRY IN THE CONTEST. BY PARTICIPATING IN THE CONTEST, PARTICIPANT AGREES TO ABIDE BY THESE RULES AND THE RULES, POLICIES AND PROCEDURES LOCATED ON SWEET RELISH, TWITTER, INSTAGRAM AND FACEBOOK. Failure to comply with these Rules AND THE TWITTER, INSTAGRAM AND FACEBOOK rules, policies and procedures will void A PARTICIPANT'S entry. This Contest is in no way sponsored, endorsed, administered by or associated with Pura Vida, any of the brands whose products are displayed on SweetRelish.com, Instagram, Twitter, or Facebook. ENTRY PERIOD: The Sweet Relish 2013 Relish For A Cause - Pura Vida Contest ("Contest") starts on April 18, 2013 and ends at 11:59 pm (EDT) on <May 6, 2013> (the "Entry Period"). The sponsor of the Contest is mphoria, LLC., 16740 Birkdale Commons Parkway, Huntersville, NC 28078 ("Sponsor"). (c) Save the selected item to a Sweet Relish list.

Gorgeous Hand Drawn Illustrations by Si Scott Here you have a series of illustrations called “animals” by Si Scott. Every design is hand drawn perfection! You can tell he has an incredible attention to detail. Enjoy! Careful, writers! 10 common words with opposite meanings The English language is full of words with uncommon properties. There are backronyms, metaplasms, and neologisms. My favorite words of unusual properties are contranyms, or words that are spelled the same, but have two opposite meanings. These words are also known as Janus words, named after the Roman god of gates and doorways and of beginnings and endings. Janus words teach us the importance of context and bring a whole new meaning to the phrase “use it in a sentence.” Here are a few examples: Oversight. Cleave. Garnish. Refrain. Root. Sanction. Weather. Bolt. Trim. Resign. Readers, any others to add to the list? Laura Hale Brockway writes about writing and edits about editing at Impertinent Remarks.

100 Exquisite Adjectives By Mark Nichol Adjectives — descriptive words that modify nouns — often come under fire for their cluttering quality, but often it’s quality, not quantity, that is the issue. Plenty of tired adjectives are available to spoil a good sentence, but when you find just the right word for the job, enrichment ensues. Practice precision when you select words. Subscribe to Receive our Articles and Exercises via Email You will improve your English in only 5 minutes per day, guaranteed! 21 Responses to “100 Exquisite Adjectives” Rebecca Fantastic list! Menu Board Tutorial For Updated Info on this Post, Click HERE. I know that I normally save my tutorials for Tuesdays, but I finally got this thing hung and wanted to share it with you now:o) I just couldn't wait. This is my menu board: This piece of wood has been sitting in our garage for quite some time now. One day while staring at this blank board, I finally got the idea to turn it into a menu board. So this is what I started with My blank board and My trusty chalkboard spray paint. I taped off the board into 6 sections. Once the sections were taped off, I covered the top and bottom with newspaper to catch the over spray. When all the paint was dry, I removed the tape very carefully and got this: Don't you just love the clean lines that tape leaves. Now this board sat for a very long time with it looking like this. I borrowed my neighbor's Cricut machine.... Here is a closer look at some of the lettering I just hand painted the scrolly work at the corners. (This was last week's menu...appetizing, eh?)

Cake postcard tutorial Supplies Materials needed to make two cake postcards: 1 large sponge (yellow paints the best)Serrated knifeX-Acto or utility knifeSpray paint (brown, yellow, pink or white)1 tube acrylic latex caulk (brown, cream or white)Spray adhesive (3M Super 77 works great!)Cardboard, kraft paper or scrapbook paper Instructions Cut sponge into wedge shape With a serrated knife, using a sawing motion, cut a sponge into two, cake wedge shapes. Cut a center groove into sponge Using an X-Acto or utility knife, cut a section of foam from the center of the sponge. Paint the sponge wedges in desired color. Trace the slice of cake When the sponge wedges are dry, trace around them on a piece of cardboard, kraft paper or colorful scrapbook paper. Spray glue the postcards to the solid, flat sides of the sponge wedges. Using a caulking gun and your desired caulk, fill a plastic disposable piping bag with half of the caulk. Pipe the center of the cake Pipe the icing on the top Note from the editor This totally works!

typing lessons This is keybr.com, a web application that will help you teach touch typing. Touch typing is typing without using the sense of sight to find the keys. A person possessing touch typing skills will know their location on the keyboard through muscle memory. It can improve any individual's typing speed and accuracy dramatically. This is a short tutorial that will explain how does this application work. You can use the left and right arrow keys to navigate through these slides. This tutorial is based on these few principles: No boring, repetitive exercises. Initially it starts generating words from a small subset of the most frequent letters of the alphabet. When you are typing these words, keybr measures time to type a key for every letter in that subset. Once you familiarize yourself with the current subset of letters, the algorithm expands it, including more and more letters to it. So at any time, you will by typing the letters you are least familiar with. This is the text board. ? ? ? ? ?

Write Your Name in Elvish in Ten Minutes Write Your Name in Elvish in Ten Minutes You want to write your name in Elvish, but every place you go seems to make it harder than it ought to be. Elvish writing looks beautiful and mysterious, but does it really have to be impossible to understand? Why doesn't somebody just spell out the alphabet so you can simply substitute the letters and get straight to the result? That's exactly what I've done here. Here's the alphabet. That's it. Generally the vowels go above the consonants, but sometimes, in the case of Y and silent E, they go below. The straight line underneath is just one way to make one character do the work of two. The line above a consonant means that a nasal N or M precedes the consonant in question. Here's one last example with two different letter combinations. I am often asked how to handle double vowel situations. That's all you need to get started. Please be aware that there are many ways to write English words in Elvish. Good luck! Ned Gulley Want an Elvish tattoo?

Making German Paper Stars... Again Betcha can't make just one. I only needed to make one to include with a shower gift and look what happened. Before I knew it I had made one in each color. One to match the wedding invitation is packaged in a cellophane bag and closed with a tag (Bag fround in candy making department of craft store and tag made on computer and stapled closed) I also had some neutral colored paper so I made some stars (also called Moravian Stars or Froebel Stars) for autumn If you are like me, even after making hundreds of these paper stars, need an occasional instruction refresher when starting back making them, I have included a previously posted video tutorial for step-by-step how to. The link button to my original post is located on my sidebar. A shout out to whom I purchased the paper strips from. Great selection and beautiful paper. I LOVE the metallic paper ~ it is easy to work with and makes gorgeous stars. Note: In my original tutorial post, I suggest waxing the paper stars.