Kanji

So, I’ve had this: HUGE kanji poster stuck on my wall for months now. I stare at it in wonder relatively often, but that’s about as far as it goes. It’s all the JLPT kanji in order and with readings. It… kind of freaks me out though. I started going through them today from the [...]

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ワッカ

I found a new website, wacca.fm. It’s awesome. It has many cool Japanese bands who offer music to download. Some of it is Creative Commons licensed, which means you can use it in videos on YouTube, for example, without getting copyright violation. As the site itself says: I have started downloading their podcast directly to [...]

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お早う！

After yesterdays book buying adventure, レベッカ and I are heading to the airport later to pick up a Japanese student. It should be fun. Except that ジャスチン is also going and he’s a PITA. For real. We made a sign so she knows who we are, haha, and we’re going to hopefully try some of [...]

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Shiny New Books

I got my new books for class today. I’m taking a couple exciting classes–300 level Japanese of course, Korean, and Language and Culture (which is a linguistics class). I’m super excited!!! I can’t wait actually. I’ve been building my Kanji list over at Smart.fm and it’s starting to look good. I’m sure it’s going to [...]

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Dictionaries 字書

I have several Japanese dictionaries. Both hard copies and those online. I find myself using the hard copy when I am writing a journal entry on lang-8 or perhaps an essay for school. I also tend to use the JLPT-Kanji website quite often too. I’ve heard good and bad about both methods and feel justified [...]

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父の日

お早うございます！元気？私は病気だ。 I’ve been a bit busy these last few days–hence the lack of posting. I seem to have been busy with things for my son (play dates and so forth), work, study, and yard work.  Today it’s 8.30am and I already have two cakes baking for Father’s Day!!! (Fudge Swirl if you wanna know!!) So, [...]

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Flashing!

So, today I’ve been hit with more of the flu… but it gave me a chance to sort through my “White Rabbit Press” flash cards for the Level 3 JLPT. These cards are AWESOME! Volume 1 is the complete set of Kanji required for Levels 3 & 4. Each card includes 6 vocab words/phrases including commonly [...]

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“Reading and Writing Japanese”

こんにちは！ 元気？私はままだね。 Okay guys, here’s the review I promised yesterday. I bought “A Guide to Reading and Writing Japanese” as a requirement for my Japanese class at University. It’s a fairly small book but worth it’s weight in gold. The product description tells us that “This book covers all of the 1,945 characters in the [...]

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