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My Top 7 Books for Learning and Studying Japanese 13 Dec 2011 | 10:00 am
There are a lot of books to learn Japanese from, but not all of them are good. I even portrayed one in “Why Your Language Book is Holding Your Japanese Back” where I show what the book has, and why it...
Studying Your Japanese Better With a Tablet 6 Dec 2011 | 08:00 am
In my last post I mentioned I was starting over with Hesig Remembering the Kanji, and I did. However, the amount of time I was dedicating to studying wasn’t as much as I had hoped, or as efficient. So...
Regrouping and Focusing on Attainable Things 21 Jul 2011 | 10:25 am
One of the hardest parts about learning, blogging, or even living life is losing focus on what you want. Losing site of the goal, getting distracted and veering off course. Over the last year and half...
Real Use of Rosetta Stone 14 Jul 2011 | 02:49 pm
Rosetta Stone has some very interesting things going for it. From being sold all over the place to their “unique” selling proposition of being the perfect way to learn a new language. I got it a long ...
Because 〜から 7 Oct 2010 | 06:32 am
We go through life constantly having to explain our actions to others. It is no difference in Japanese as any other language. The most common way to do this is to use から. There are a couple of ways be...
~てすみませんでした, I’m Sorry 30 Sep 2010 | 09:26 am
This is another て-form addon, noticing a pattern? There back in the main te-form post I hinted at teform being used to conjugate other things a lot. You are now starting to see that. In this case it i...
〜ておく Preparation Time 22 Sep 2010 | 08:25 am
おく is here to help. Especially since it is a helping verb about us preparing for something. ておく is actually て-form + おく: て+おく It also conjugations like a normal u-verb. So your conjugations should w...
Japanese Alphabet Study Guide 17 Aug 2010 | 08:16 am
From the creator or Tae-Kims guide to Japanese for the iPhone here is a guest post by a friend of mine, Ronald Timoshenko. This is a bit about his new application Japanese Alphabet Study Guide and why...
Jisho Japanese Dictionary for OS X 12 Aug 2010 | 11:23 am
Being a developer on the Microsoft stack, which I love, me getting a mac is pretty big. Well recently I purchased one so I can do some iPad/iPhone development on, which I own neither. Anyway I have sp...
Start Using New Verbs 27 Mar 2010 | 05:19 am
Learning new verbs is easy, for the most part, but using new verbs is a bit of a pain. This pain leads to apprehension when using Japanese, and trying to use this vocabulary we have never used before....