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Monthly Archives: May, 2009

How To Learn Japanese

This is a presentation my teacher asked me to do. In this post I am going to write out the whole presentation and walk you through the slides instead of just posting the slides. At the end I’ll have the slides to download too. This is probably going to be long as [...]

Mei-chan no Shitsuji

Cast
Eikura Nana as Shinonome Mei (M)
Mizushima Hiro as Shibata Rihito (B)
Sato Takeru as Shibata Kento (B)
Yamada Yu as Lucia (Hongo Shiori) (M)
Mukai Osamu as Shinobu (B)
Plot
The story revolves around a young woman named Mei, who was rescued as a young girl by someone calling himself her “butler.” With only a vague memory, though, the experience [...]

Kanagawa

Note/Disclaimer: This is a post that is meant to give a quick overview of some of Kanagawa and not full detail of everything. Kanagawa 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 [...]

Character Rought Draft

I have always wanted a character to represent me and my site.  Saw this on locker gnome for Chris Pirillo and to me was the coolest thing ever.  I have always had yet to find a reason to have a character until I decided to get serious about blogging.  So now that I am serious [...]

Asu no Yoichi

Plot
After learning martial arts in the mountains for 17 years, Yoichi Karasuma’s grandfather orders Yoichi to learn martial arts with the Ikaruga family in the city as he has nothing left to teach him. The current head of the Ukiha Divine Wind Style Swordplay school of martial arts, Ibuki Ikaruga and her siblings gradually accept [...]

Saitama

Note/Disclaimer: This is a post that is meant to give a quick overview of some of Saitama and not full detail of everything. Saitama 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 [...]

Japanese Verb Conjugation Te-Form

Today we are going to go over te-form’s. This is VERY important to the Japanese language because it leads to so very much. If there is one type of verb conjugation to learn and learn extremely well it would be this. For that reason this might be a bit long for some, [...]

Top 10 Japanese Tounge Twisters

After reading yonasu’s post a while back about a tongue twister he cam up with I have been mildly interested in Japanese tongue twisters.  So my teacher pointed me to some good tongue twisters.  According to goo ranking. Here are the Top 10 Japanese tongue twisters. (I have romanized them, but not separated the words)
1) [...]

Japanese Verb Conjugation Past Tense

Hopefully you have been following along for the last couple of days with “Understanding u-verbs and ru-verbs” and “Japanese Verb Conjugation Present and Future Tense“. If you haven’t please read both of them as they will help this one make a bit more sense. With that being said lets just jump right it [...]

Japanese Verb Conjugation Present and Future Tense

Yesterday we talked about understanding u-verbs and ru-verbs, and knowing which was which and how to tell them apart. Knowing yesterdays information is very important for doing verb conjugation which is a pretty big part of any language. If you haven’t had a chance to read understanding u-verbs and ru-verbs do that right [...]