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.

Counting People in Japanese

September 5, 2009

One thing we use a lot, but probably don’t realize is when we count people. “There are I’d say 15 people over there.” or “We have 6 people”. We use this quite a bit especially when it comes to groups of people. To count people we will use にん at the end of the a [...]

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Hatsukoi Limited

August 31, 2009

Plot A series of short stories depicting the complicated love lives of eight middle school and high school girls, their classmates and relatives. These stories later intertwine to form a main story involving most of the cast. Opinion This was a lot of fun to watch. Very, very cookie cutter basic story line with no [...]

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ii and na adjective conjugation present and past tense

August 31, 2009

There are two types of adjectives which I will cover in another post, but for the time being know there are い-adjectives and な-adjectives. Very roughly, い-adjectives end in い and な-adjectives use な after the adjective before proceeding to the rest of the statement. Adjectives, like verbs, conjugate for tense and polarity. However, い-adjectives [...]

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To Love-Ru & Speed Grapher

August 26, 2009

I just got two packages today and it is amazing they both came in at the same time.  First up is some untranslated manga of To Love-Ru.  Am going to address more about where I got it in another post as this was a test of their service. I was able to get these manga [...]

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Tochigi

August 26, 2009

Note/Disclaimer: This is a post that is meant to give a quick overview of some of Tochigi and not full detail of everything. Tochigi 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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Mangajin's Basic Japanese through comics – Review

August 25, 2009

I recently was able to come accross this book, Mangajin’s Basic Japanese through comics, from a friend in my Japanese class. At first I was skeptical at how much use this book would be on learning practical Japanese, but I can honestly say I am/was impressed. The book is broken up into 24 lessons (or [...]

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The Irresponsible Captain Tylor

August 24, 2009

Plot In a distant, highly technological future, Tylor, the title character, is a mysterious young man without a real purpose in life, a state of mind that is very hard to determine, and a knack for accidentally getting out of near-death situations with a childishly cavalier attitude. He sometimes does not even seem to realize [...]

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Aijou Ippon

August 20, 2009

Plot Tomoe, 17, is an average high-school girl, interested in clothes and guys, but her family life is not so average. Losing her mother at a young age, she lives alone with her father, Shouhei and does all the cooking, laundry, housekeeping, like a mother would do. They have a hard time making ends meet, [...]

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Extract Audio from a Video to Increase Listening Content

August 14, 2009

In one of my previous posts I talked about building up a tolerance for listening to Japanese audio. Another way to get content is to take you J-Drama or Anime and rip out the audio into an mp3 and put it on your Zune or iPod or other mp3 playing device. It is fairly simple [...]

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Basic Existence

August 12, 2009

Things exist in this world and we need to know how to tell others that. You might say “there is a TV in the living room”, “There is a McDonalds down the street”, “Over there is a TV”, “Tomorrow is a Test”. These are examples of phrases we use that show existence. The root verb [...]

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