Comments on: What I Want To See With Apple’s iPad (In Regards To Japanese)

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 06:52:00 +0000

“Personally I think it’s just an oversized, overpriced, iTouch.”

If you use an iTouch for any period of time, you might find it undersized. :-)

“I’d rather spend less and get something with Windows 7, a larger screen, and a full keyboard, and many more things for it (a tablet PC). This would be more successful if they used a real OS and not one made for a cell phone”

iOS is essentially NeXTstep with a touchscreen user interface. To call it “made for a cell phone” is about as accurate as calling Windows 7 “made for the 8086″.

“and if it came out let’s say about, 5 years ago.”

I’m not sure what you mean. Everybody would prefer today’s technology existed earlier, but there’s nothing we can do about it. Feel free to step into a time machine, if you have one. :-)

“And for learning Japanese, just look at how many programs are out there for Microsoft Windows. After all it is the worlds most popular OS compared to Apple’s 3% world wide.”

I don’t know how many programs there are for Windows but if you care about such things, don’t bother learning Japanese. Fewer than 2% of the population worldwide speaks it. Stick to something like Spanish or Mandarin — then you can be popular like MS Windows!

By: Imilligan

Imilligan — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 17:43:00 +0000

Hi Dave – you should check out Kanji for Fun on the iPad. I’m on the JET program in Japan and this program really rocks! They were giving out some free promo codes to the JETs to try out the program. You might try contacting them if you want to get the app for free. I’m sure they’d be happy to get you one if you tell them you’d write a review for them on your blog (I see that there’s a link in the post above yours) .BTW – I’ve started using the Rikai browser, too. Thanks for the little review on wordpress.

By: Madison

Madison — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 13:57:44 +0000

I laughed when you made fun of spanish learners. I just finished 2 years of spanish classes and I'm never going to take another one (they are mandatory for me to graduate high school) As for the tech savvy thing, I can work a basic cell phone but if I try to use anything smarter, I will probably break it =s
Take Facebook for example, I didn't go onto mine for a few months and thus my account was deleted, when I tried to reactivate it by clicking the reactivate button, it took me to a help page where I was supposed to ask a question, but I could only ask if I was logged in (wtf?) To shorten this a bit, I clicked a lot of buttons that I didn't know what they did, and I sent out e-mails asking why it was deactivated (none were replied to) and in the end I gave up and I finally admitted that I broke facebook. So…yeah, there is your useless story about 8 months late XD

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 01:59:47 +0000

I have started a blog using the iPad as a japanese learning tool and would appreciate some feedback from anyone who may be interested

http://nihongopad.wordpress.com/

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 19:53:36 +0000

Safari extensions may be tough by Apple standards. We went around it and just re-implemented a browser that does something similar to Rikaichan:

http://longweekendmobile.com/apps/rikai-browser…

By: James

James — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 20:23:52 +0000

This is a cool app to learn Japanese Kanji on the iPad.
Kanji for Fun!

http://kanjiforfun.com
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/kanji-for-fun/id...

Enjoy! Cheers.