世界

Today I was so happy with myself that I was able to read the table of contents of a Japanese magazine that I bought for my "crackphone". The Japanese magazine was somewhat fail because they had tried to sell their magazine on the internet, but unfortunately their pdf version of it is so blurry not even a native speaker could read most of the articles unless you can translate black mush. So I resorted to the big type.

My one big dream is to be able to read a Japanese magazine or newspaper and have the words fly off the page and know what it is saying instead of slowly looking up the words. And when I say it was my dream, I'm serious. That is why I study Japanese.

So here's the passage that I studied today and self-congratulated.　It was about the inauguration of Obama.

”期待と不安”　世界が見た「オバマ新時代」　THIS　DAY　OF　CHANGE　
世界の写真家１００人が撮った.「１．２０」

期待 ふあん Anticipation
不安　きたい Anxiety
世界　せかい World
新時代　しんじだい The new age/new period
写真家　しゃしんか Photographer

So then we can incur:

"Anticipation and Anxiety" The World watched [The New Age of Obama] THIS DAY OF CHANGE.

The world's 100 photographer's take pictures of 1.20.


Yes that is very cool that I'm able to do that. I'm finally getting somewhere.