This Contest has been extended to April 9, 2008! Nara-City, the capitol city of Nara prefecture, is known for it's beautiful temples and overly aggressive biting deer monsters. This year, Nara Heijo-Kyo Capitol is … [Read more...]
Over the next month, I will be reviewing some of the mainstream Japanese text books that are currently being used by Japanese language learners; from there I will move on to reviewing programs that use technology to teach … [Read more...]
It seems as though bushido, i.e. "the way of the warrior," is getting pretty popular amongst several (mostly otaku) groups in Japan. Not only are people speaking like Samurai - using Samurai grammar, vocabulary, etc., but … [Read more...]
A couple of weeks ago I wrote about using Mixi to practice your Japanese. This week I will be talking about another valuable (but fun) online tool that is a little easier on the busy learner. I started getting into Twitter … [Read more...]
January 5 - January 25 (that's like...3 weeks in review!) Here's to another attempt at keeping up with all that silly Japanese news. I feel like not making a video to go along with it is the best way to go. Only the … [Read more...]
I know this was in our news post, but I think this sort of thing deserves its own article as well. The other day I put together a new kanji memorization worksheet. I think it's completely different from anything I've … [Read more...]