How To Study | Tofugu.com

Archive | How To Study RSS feed for this section

Top 10 Online Resources for Learning Japanese for Free

21. October 2008

I’m really proud and excited to announce Tofugu’s first annual “Top 10 Online Resources for Learning Japanese for Free” list, which includes an e-book that’s available for download at the end of the article. There’s also video down there for all you people who don’t like reading things! Have you ever wondered what was out there [...]

Shiritori (しりとり): Japanese Vocab Saturday Timewaster

4. October 2008

Comments

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 [...]

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

23. September 2008

Comments

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 [...]

EduFire Review: Learn Japanese (or any language) Online via Webcam with a Private Tutor

28. August 2008

Comments

First off, I love eduFire. It’s a great website with great people, a great interface, and a great mission: They want to make it easy for tutors to teach students a foreign language. Right now, there are forty-three languages being taught on eduFire (and that number is growing as tutors increase), including Arabic, English, French, [...]

Listen to Japanese Podcasts via iTunes

21. August 2008

Comments

Recently, I became a huge fan of podcasts. I thought they were a lot lamer than they really are, so I was surprised when I actually took a look at the Podcast section in iTunes. Now, I’m listening to NPR constantly, especially Car Talk, Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me, and This American Life. This went [...]

Learn Japanese NOW!

1. August 2008

Comments

Think of this post as an “inspirational” post…or something like that. Might be the opposite, depending on who you are. Over the last five years or so, I feel like I’ve noticed an influx in “instant gratification textbooks.” Everyone is trying to claim that they can teach you Japanese faster. One book will say it can [...]

How to Study Japanese Over the Summer

20. June 2008

Comments

Well, it’s that time of year, isn’t it? Some of you are getting out of school for summer break and some of you haven’t had to go to school for decades. Some of you took Japanese classes at school, and some of you are self-taught. Either way, summer makes it really easy not to continue [...]