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Contest Extension + Free Online Lecture

This is just a quick post letting you know a couple things. First, I’m giving a free online lecture about learning Japanese. It’s titled: “Top 10 Free Online Tools for Learning Japanese.” If you’re interested, it will be a great lecture, and I’ll be doing it twice, one for the folks in Eruope, and one for [...]

Shiritori (しりとり): Japanese Vocab Saturday Timewaster

I was reminded of this game over on the eduFire forums, where one of the tutors started a game up. What a great vocab game! I remember playing this a lot with my crazy little kancho-giving host brother, back in the day. Here’s how it works. One person starts with a word The next person takes the [...]

Anime on Hulu: Not all that bad, surprisingly

Now, you will almost never see Tofugu talking about anime on the site, at least not directly. But how could I not pass this up. I’m not particularly interested in the fact that Hulu has anime. Who cares about that? The most interesting thing is that they aren’t dubbing (most of) it. It comes in [...]

Kyokasho.net: Relive your Childhood by Defacing Historical Figures

I played around on this website for way too long. Thanks to Cscout, I came across the website kyokasho.net, which allows you to choose from several school subjects, and then doodle all over the pictures of historical figures. I remember those days. They weren’t all that long ago. I would ignore the teacher (maybe that’s [...]

How to Get Free Japanese Lessons (In more than one way!)

So, as I promised (and a day late), here’s how you can get you fill of free Japanese lessons, right from your own home. There’s two ways to do it. The first way involves a contest (I’ll talk about this more a little later) and the second way just involves clicking around a new Youtube [...]

Sneak Peak at my current Projects (Free Japanese Lessons!)

I’m going to keep this super short, since it’s only a sneak peak and not a not-sneaky-peak. This will officially be announced on Monday, most likely, but I thought I’d do a little shout out from here first, since you’re all pretty cool froods, who know where your towel’s at.

Jesus’ Life, Family, and Death (in Japan)

Forget that bible thing. Someone must have edited out the good part. You know, the part where it says that Jesus came to Japan when he was 21 to study theology, returned to Judea at the age of 33 to preach, and then got crucified…or so we all thought!

The Curse of Colonel Sanders

I came across this story on Flickr while looking for something completely different, which forced me to do some more searching on my own. Of course, the curse is in Wikipedia, as well as in Shane’s atypicallife, but you can read it right here as well. Possibly with a little more snarkiness. Maybe. What/Who does the [...]

Learn Japanese from Koichi on eduFire! (video)