By Koichi In the past we've written a bit about Google Image search and how it's useful for Japanese learning. For example, if you don't know what a Japanese word means, or if you just aren't sure about the translation … [Read more...]
The word "hengao" means "strange face" (変顔/へんがお) and it's just about everything you're probably imagining. Recently it's gotten popularized even more by the comedian ワッキー (Wakki) who is not only good at making weird faces, … [Read more...]
It's been about a month since we launched our "Japanese Resources Page" - on it we say things like "blah-didy-blah japanese resource this that etc" but we thought it would be fun for you guys if we just put our money where … [Read more...]
Two weeks ago I put up a post about Tenso, the Japanese shipping company, and asked you all to write a haiku in order to win a slick t-shirt. I've been through them a bunch of times now, but can't choose just one. That's … [Read more...]
I just wanted to thank all of you who voted for us in the Blogging Idol 2 competition over at DailyBlogTips. As always, it's all thanks to you that all of this is possible! I have no idea what we won, and that doesn't … [Read more...]
I'm sure you've all been anxiously waiting, hoping to get your グミ sugar fix on sooner rather than later. It's finally that time, and the five randomly picked Twitter users have been chosen, thanks to the random number … [Read more...]