Japanese Study: Day 19 - 25At the end of this week I received a package from our friends at J-List! It contains all sorts of things to help study Japanese and I will be posting reviews/highlights of each item soon. At Mirai Inc we're working on a very exciting new project and...
Photo Notes: Set 1 - Food in JapanI thought this might be fun to try. Basically the idea of "Photo Notes" is to use the annotation feature and make notes on the photos in kanji/kana. The aim is to label as many things as you can. That doesn't mean just the food, you can label the ite...
Doraemon Movie 2010: Nobita's Great Battle of the Mermaid KingSpotted this in the free apps section of the Japan iTunes App Store. It's not just one app, but 16 free apps which make up the face of Doraemon on your iPhone. Made by Yahoo! Japan, it's a promotion for the new Doraemon movie called "Nobita's Great B...
Japanese Study: Day 13 - 18I had to combine these study notes into one post because I got so far behind. It's been a very busy week of work and with other things to do at home I hadn't found a spare moment to write up my study notes. Unless I have something interesting to writ...
Japanese Study: Day 12Finally managed to update my smart.fm list with all the vocab from the last few days.
Haven't used it a great deal yet, since I haven't had much downtime, but now including it in my morning study. I have been looking for some kids websites I could b...
Japanese Study: Day 11I spent most of the day translating and tweaking the site ready to launch the Japanese language site. I have all of my study notes translated and will continue to post Japanese translations. I've also added Puchi Notes to both the Japanese and Englis...
Japanese Study: Day 10Today I finished my last English book "Space Wolf: The Second Omnibus", a mammoth 768 page 3-in-1 collection of books. I read the first omnibus over Christmas. It's full aliens, demon worshipers, mutants and wolf-like warriors shooting and cutting th...
Japanese Study: Day 9Not much happened today, so here's a photo of my mother-in-law's dinner. This is 寄せ鍋 (よせなべ). Full of delicious goodies!Words of the Day
ご確認下さい (ごかくにんください) "please confirm (polite)"
どうぞよろしくお願いします (どうぞよろしく...
Japanese Study: Day 8Busy with work and also translating Nihongo Notes ready to open the Japanese site. Taking longer than I thought to get the UI translations done. There will still be some things needing translation, but nothing major
Japanese Study: Day 7I did several big things today, the first was to translate a clients email, take action and respond in Japanese. It's just a small thing, but a big improvement from what I did last year. The second big thing was I also wrote this post in Japanese. E...
Japanese Study: Day 6Today I decided to cut back on the English and fit more Japanese into my life. Sure, I'm surrounded by the language here in Japan, but it's very easy to get through the day without learning anything new. First to change is my time spent on the train...
Japanese Study: Day 5Today there was only one word of the day and that was だめ "useless; no good; hopeless;". I was really tired yesterday, made a few mistakes, and generally the day just sucked. Luckily crap days are not a regular occurrence, so I sacrificed a bit of s...
Japanese Study: Day 4I didn't do as much actual study as I'd liked today, so I will have to do a bit more tomorrow. The most memorable new word today was 了解 (りょうかい) which means "comprehension; consent; understanding; roger (on radio)". A client asked for some chan...
Japanese Study: Day 3Today I was at work, and due to an unexpected late night I didn't manage to get up at 5am. So not the most productive Sunday with regards to Japanese study. However, I managed to get some revision done on the train with the smart.fm iPhone app and I'...
Japanese Study: Day 2Today didn't start at 5am, because it's the weekend and I have a cold ^^ So instead I was up at 8am and tried to get iAnki to work with my iPhone. It worked, but the flashcards only showed the kanji and not the kana readings too. So it wasn't much us...
Japanese Study: Day 1My 2009 review post will come later, but first I need to get my Japanese study into full swing. This is post 1 of an infinite number of posts. I'm up at 5am to get roughly 2 hours of study done before work. It's the only time I seem to be able to do...
Kanji of the Year 2009The Kanji of the year 今年の漢字 "Kotoshi no Kanji" is a kanji chosen by the Japanese Kanji Proficiency Society through a national ballot in Japan. The kanji with the most votes is selected to represent the events of that year and is announced in a c...
