My English class was about to start. But the Japanese man I teach with wasn't ready. "Can you please talk to the students while I finish preparing?" He asked me.

"Sure."

I told the class we would start without Mr. Kageyama. They stood up and bowed to me. After asking them the usual questions, which they answered in unison (How's the weather? / What day is today? / What is today's date?) I told them to sit down.

"Who has an iPod, raise your hand?" I asked. Several students raised their hands.

"You sir, how many songs do you have?"

"Two hun-do-re-do." He said.

"And did you copy them from a CD? Or did download them?"

"Download-shi-ma-shi-ta."

"Where did you go to download?" This question stopped him. Several other kids joined in, but he couldn't quite give me an answer. I took a pen and asked him to write the website. The address. Finally one of the kids in class understood and said the magic words, URL.

"Yes, what's the URL?" I asked, thankful that this one translates perfectly.

But he didn't know the URL. Then how did he download songs? I thought about it for a moment, and remembered seeing a Google commercial on TV--before their recent Super Bowl ad. Why would Google have a TV spot in Japan? Because Yahoo is the main search engine here.

On the blackboard I wrote "yahoo.co.jp" and then drew a line to a search box. Then I drew another line to the word "Music." I tapped the empty search box. Kids today don't even bother memorizing the URLs of their favorite webpages, I've noticed.

He understood what I wanted to know, took the chalk and wrote this in the empty box. (I hope your PC supports Japanese)

天元
http://tengen001.web.fc2.com/ is the URL I think.

Several other students joined in and added the following.

ニコニコ動画
http://www.nicovideo.jp/

However this second example is more like a Japanese youtube. And you have to register to use it, so meh. I should caution you as my students cautioned me. The download site above is "Chinese" and "dangerous."

Basket Laundry

Cleaning

According to a use, let's distinguish by the color.

However, please do not make it a step.