Monthly Archives: March, 2009
Japanese Language Classes DON’T Suck
Over at the All Japanese All the Time site Khatsumoto says:
Classes suck. Not only do they cost money, but they’re boring and they don’t work. You only need look as far as the number of people taking Japanese classes, versus the number of people who are actually good at Japanese. The people in charge of [...]
Gunma
Note/Disclaimer: This is a post that is meant to give a quick overview of some of Gunma and not full detail of everything. Gunma is much like a state in the US with a rich past, present, and future to come. I can’t possibly cover everything and getting the tip of everything would be a [...]
Links Around Town – 2
Here are some more interesting links around the English/Japanese bloggosphere. Most of the links I try to get are to help better understand the culture in Japan as understanding the culture is a good way to understand the language.
Photography
Starting Photography – Street Photography
A Night In Osaka
Ghost Town Haikyo…
The Tokyoite: Crossing Yasukuni Dori
Food
Lunch-time habits in Japan
Japanese [...]
Nobuta wo Produce Review
Story Line
The basic plot line is about a guy that is popular, but is very superficial so that he doesn’t get hurt. However, along comes a very unpopular girl that is one of those that people love to hate because she is so out of the norm. He befriends her because he has an idea [...]
Niigata
Note/Disclaimer: This is a post that is meant to give a quick overview of some of Niigata and not full detail of everything. Niigata is much like a state in the US with a rich past, present, and future to come. I can’t possibly cover everything and getting the tip of everything would be a [...]
Kanji Set 8
Kanji: 私
Kana: (kun) わたし (on) シ
Meaning: I
Stroke Order
Kanji: 今
Kana: (kun) いま (on) コン
Meaning: now
Stroke Order
Kanji: 田
Kana: (kun) た, �
Meaning: Rice Field
Stroke Order
Kanji: 女
Kana: (kun) おんな (on) ジョ
Meaning: Woman
Stroke Order
Kanji: 男
Kana: (kun) おとこ (on) ダン
Meaning: Man
Stroke Order
Usage
私
私 (わたし) I
私立大学 (シリツダイガク) private university
今
今 (いま) now
今日 [...]
Fukushima
Note/Disclaimer: This is a post that is meant to give a quick overview of some of Fukushima and not full detail of everything. Fukushima is much like a state in the US with a rich past, present, and future to come. I can’t possibly cover everything and getting the tip of everything would be a [...]
Links Around Town – 1
With all the stuff there is to read about Japan and its various cultures I often find interesting things with nuggets of information, or just plain funny stories. Unfortunately, there isn’t a good way to bookmark these effectively. Social Bookmarking sites don’t really work, talk to me in person if you want to know why. [...]
Kenji to Yasuko
The basic idea behind this show is a girl’s parents died when she was young and the overprotective bike gangster gives up his gang to raise Yasuko by being a mangaka. Yasuko has never had a boyfriend or a boys phone number in her cell phone until one day she meets a boy and is [...]
Kenichi The Mightiest Disciple English Audio First Impressions
Here is the english cast of the characters.
Shirihama Ken’ichi – Josh Grelle
Miu Fūrinji – Carrie Savage
Hayato Fūrinji – R Bruce Elliott
Shio Sakaki – Christopher Sabat
Apachai Hopachai – Sonny Strait
Shigure Kōsaka – Trina Nishimura
Kensei Ma – Vic Mignogna
Akisame Kōetsuji – Kent Williams
In the first 30 seconds of actual conversation audio I was kind of freaked out [...]
