Until further notice this blog remains here for archival purposes and is not actively posted on. It is unclear as to when this will change, but this is to let you know.

Japanese Verb Conjugation Past Tense

May 13, 2009

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 and get [...]

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Japanese Verb Conjugation Present and Future Tense

May 12, 2009

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 now before [...]

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Understanding u-verbs and ru-verbs

May 11, 2009

When it comes to ru-vebs there are a lot of weird things going on, but lets first look at irregular verbs since they are an easy exception.   The irregular verb will have a る at the end of the word, but to determine if it is an irregular verb or not we need to [...]

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Online Japanese Music Radio Stations

May 8, 2009

There are a lot of different resources I use to listen to japanese audio.  One of them is streaming online stations.  Here are a few I listen to. Kawaii-Radio: This is my favorite station as it plays mostly anime soundtracks and that tends to be more of the Japanese music I like since I watch [...]

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Links Around Town 4

May 3, 2009

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. I only make these posts when I find 20 links I think are more interesting than [...]

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Learning Japanese has an Immediate Return on Investment (ROI)

April 27, 2009

As a college student I spend a lot of time learning things that don’t seem to apply to the real world or has no immediate benifit, but with some work I can see a future return on learning the subject at hand.  I must say only learning things which have a future return is kind [...]

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Butt Attack Punisher Girl Gotaman

April 21, 2009

Plot Mari Amachi is a new student at the Perfect Religion Academy. When her roommate Saori Minami is kidnapped by the Black Buddha gang, Buddha himself appears before Mari. He offers her the opportunity to become Gōtaman in order to save her friend. Mari accepts the proposal and becomes Gōtaman, a sumo-belt-clad hero who fights [...]

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Ibaraki

April 20, 2009

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

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Gal Circle

April 19, 2009

Cast Fujiki Naohito as Kitajima Shinnosuke Toda Erika as Saki Suzuki Emi as Remi Aragaki Yui as Nagisa Iwasa Mayuko as Rika Yaguchi Mari as Yurika Satsukawa Aimi as Shizuka Natsuko as Sumire Furuta Arata as Geronimo Yamauchi Nana as Momo Kamiwaki Yu as Yayoi Miura Rieko as Akiko Sato Ryuta as Ichinose-kun (Police Officer) [...]

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5 Centimeters Per Second – First Anime I Didn't Like

April 19, 2009

For the most part I pretty much have liked most Anime I have watched, except school days ending. So it really hurts that I have found an Anime I don’t like. At this point I have watched 95 days worth of Anime so that is a lot to get through and to like them all, [...]

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