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.

New Language Learning Resources

June 4, 2009

If you have read my post “How to Learn Japanese” then you probably saw a lot of different resources on there.  Unfortunatly, I have no central place to put them at all for easy access by all.  I just kind of let them sit in that post.  Well today my sensei gave me a new [...]

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Akikan

June 3, 2009

Plot Akikan (”Empty Can”) is the unlikely story of high school boy Kakeru Daichi, whose can of melon juice soda magically transforms into a human girl. More “akikan” girls begin appearing, each of them needing to be infused with carbon dioxide from their respective drink types to survive. The akikans were created as part of [...]

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How To Learn Japanese

May 29, 2009

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 it is about [...]

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Mei-chan no Shitsuji

May 26, 2009

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 [...]

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Kanagawa

May 25, 2009

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 [...]

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Character Rought Draft

May 24, 2009

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 [...]

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Asu no Yoichi

May 21, 2009

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 [...]

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Saitama

May 18, 2009

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 [...]

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Japanese Verb Conjugation Te-Form

May 15, 2009

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, but I just [...]

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Top 10 Japanese Tounge Twisters

May 14, 2009

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) [...]

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