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Japanese books for Kindle from TheJapanShop

Posted by harvey in Books, Gadgets, Language on 30. Aug, 2010 @ 10:40 am | No Comments

Japanese books for Kindle from TheJapanShop

Have a Kindle? Want to use it to learn Japanese? This eBook might be a good place to get started. Learn Hiragana on the Kindle TheJapanShop has an inexpensive Kindle eBook available that will teach you Hiragana from scratch. I highly recommend Hiragana as a starting place in your quest to learn Japanese. Once you [...]

Japanese Podcast Recommendations – Part 4

Posted by harvey in Culture, Gadgets, Language, Media, Society on 28. Aug, 2010 @ 7:13 pm | No Comments

Japanese Podcast Recommendations – Part 4

The next podcast recommendation is Nikkei Veritas Moyamoya Talk by TV Tokyo Announcer Oe Mariko. Moyamoya Talk with Oe Mariko とーく!!! Just a quick Japanese print culture lesson. Seeing とーく, with it’s と and く in Hiragana placed around a katakana vowel extender ー thing may seem a little weird. Basically, this is トーク which [...]

Japanese Podcast Recommendations – Part 3

Posted by harvey in Culture, Language, Media, Society, Working on 17. Aug, 2010 @ 1:25 pm | No Comments

Japanese Podcast Recommendations – Part 3

Profile! I'll never be featured on this Podcast… This podcast is called 上田の仕事人名鑑 プロファイル! Basically, the host will go out somewhere in Japan to find hardcore Japanese people working. I don’t mean soft cushy desk jobs, I mean 70 year old men who jump into chest-deep waters with a basket rake tied around their waist and [...]

TheJapanShop.com CONTEST OVER!

Posted by harvey in About, Crazy Consumers on 08. Aug, 2010 @ 8:14 pm | 3 Comments

TheJapanShop.com CONTEST OVER!

Thanks for entering everyone! The winners of TheJapanShop.com giveaway contest are… *drumroll please…* @meggiEm00m00 via Twitter Mary via the Comments Abhishek Duggal via the Comments Nataliya via the Comments and… Ken via the Comments! We’ll be contacting you by email to tell you how to use the prize! If you don’t hear from me in [...]

Contest: Win $25 of TheJapanShop.com Goodness!

Posted by harvey in About, Books on 05. Aug, 2010 @ 8:07 pm | 16 Comments

Contest: Win $25 of TheJapanShop.com Goodness!

Hello everyone! As you may or may not have noticed, TheJapanShop.com has a new website! In celebration of this momentous occasion I’m collaborating with TheJapanShop.com to give away $25 dollar TheJapanShop.com gift certificates to 5 lucky readers! How to Enter the Contest: Do all of the following: In the comments on this post, let us [...]

Japanese Podcast Recommendations – Part 1

Posted by harvey in Language, Media on 05. Aug, 2010 @ 6:03 am | 1 Comment

Japanese Podcast Recommendations – Part 1

I’ve been meaning to put together a list of my favorite Japanese Podcasts for quite some time now, but never seem to get around to it. So, in order to stop the slack, I’ve decided to just do it one at a time and forget about organizing a pretty list. It’ll work out, I promise. [...]

An Interview with an upcoming JET CIR

Posted by harvey in Books, Working on 26. Jul, 2010 @ 8:24 am | 3 Comments

An Interview with an upcoming JET CIR

Hello JapanNewbies! Today we’ve got another interview for you. A “getting to Japan” success story if you will. Akeem has been accepted to work in Japan as a CIR in the JET program and will be arriving in Japan on July 27th. Which is like, tomorrow, pretty much. Akeem first contacted me long ago, in [...]

Start at the Beginning – Level 0 Reader

Posted by harvey in Books, Crazy Consumers, Language on 18. Jul, 2010 @ 6:09 am | 1 Comment

Start at the Beginning – Level 0 Reader

Hey Everyone! This one is for the actual Newbies out there. I learned through the White Rabbit Press newsletter that they now have a Level 0 Japanese Graded Reader. This means that no matter how newbie you are, you can use this to start reading Japanese. No more excuses! You don’t even need to know [...]

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