Why, it was just yesterday that I teamed up with Koichi to kick some Katakana butt on edufire. A rather special class, it was - none of your usual vocabulary fluff. We're talking real, useful katakana and it's guaranteed … [Read more...]
Mmm. Macs. I'm about the biggest fanboy you'll see, which probably means a totally biased review. This morning, on the way to work, I made the trek to my version of Mecca and walked past ground zero for Apple's Worldwide … [Read more...]
Philip Seyfi sent me an e-mail asking me to check out his Adobe Air application Nihongoup (for a long time I thought its name was some sort of weird misspelling, or a fish reference, which of course we approve of Ha! Logo … [Read more...]
[yframe url='http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvKoonGVRhk'] Deas lives on and blogs from Hakatajima, halfway between Honshu and Shikoku. He's a fellow wonky culture lover who tends to write about his personal struggle to … [Read more...]
[box type="info"]Newer version of the Japanese Particles Cheatsheet[/box] Japanese particles can be fun, if by fun you mean eye gouges and hair pulls. I haven't come across too many people that enjoy Japanese particles. … [Read more...]
"Moshi Moshi" is probably something you've seen or heard before. In Japanese, it's used when answering the telephone, and roughly means "hello" or "hi." You're not really going to see this word used off the phone too much … [Read more...]