Posted in Books, Language, tagged easy learning tools, japan, japanese learning, kids books, textbooks on March 31, 2008 | 6 Comments »
A friend of mine and I often find ourselves spending too much money every time we visit the bookstore. We sometimes go together with the intention of stopping each other from buying more than we should, but we still end up buying a lot of stuff. Tonight we again went to the bookstore. Instead of [...]
Posted in Books, Language, tagged japan, Japanese Language Proficiency Test, JLPT, strategy, 日本語能力試験 on March 2, 2008 | 4 Comments »
For those looking to take the JLPT this year, I’d like to suggest an early start. Last year, I started to study in about June, and very quickly regretted it. There were too many things to study, and there was too little time. I tried to study as much as I could, but as it [...]
Posted in Books, Daily Life, History, Modern Culture, Travel, tagged edo period, gaijin novel, japan, Travel, walking on January 27, 2008 | No Comments »
One fact I have never been able to confirm about Japanese history, particularly about the Edo Period, was the prohibition of the use of wheels. In the book Gaijin, James Clavell writes about policies enacted by either Toyotomi Hideyoshi or Tokugawa Ieyasu. Included in the ban of guns and gunpowder, was a ban on people [...]
Posted in Books, Language, News, tagged 2007 kanji of the year, fake, japan, kanji, kanji kentei, kanji of the year, kanken, self-study kanji books, 偽, 勉強, 漢字, 漢字検定, 漢検 on December 13, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I like studying Kanji. It reminds me of my college drawing class, where we had to balance letterings and drawings, make them fit into boxes and stuff. When I started to learn Japanese, my teacher told me that if I wanted to be respected by the Japanese, I had to write Kanji (and Hiragana and [...]
Posted in Books, Language, tagged Books, japanese, self-study, studying, studying method, 勉強, 勉強し方, 日本語 on November 10, 2007 | 4 Comments »
I relied on these books for a long time. I used to study by myself at home after work and sometimes on weekends. They’ve been a great help!
BEGINNER LEVEL
These were the books I started learning with. What I did was, I outlined all these textbooks in separate notebooks, that way I practiced [...]
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This website is designed to introduce you to my ongoing researches for my master thesis. I am a fifth year student in psychology and I am currently enquiring about the look that we, as the human beings, bring upon “Japanese animation”, a derived product of the “manga”.
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