Watch Japanese Dramas Online at MySoju
Posted by harvey in Culture on 28. Dec, 2008 | 1 Comment
You can watch Japanese dramas online at MySoju.com. You can also watch Korean and Taiwanese as well if you’re interested! TV Dramas. The most productive way to slack if you’re a language geek. – Harvey
JapanShop Closeout on Canon G70 Electronic Dictionary
Posted by harvey in Gadgets on 22. Dec, 2008 | 1 Comment
Quickie! Just noticed that there is a Canon G70 Electronic Dictionary in the bargain bin over at the JapanShop. It’s a return item, but it’s good as new, and there is only one. It’s going for $368.00 and the regular price is $410.00 so this is a pretty healthy discount. CLOSEOUT: This was a return [...]
Shaking Like a Poor Man
Posted by harvey in Language on 22. Dec, 2008 | 4 Comments
I have a bad habit of shaking my leg when I’m listening to someone speak about something, or when I get sleepy… or when it’s cold… or… anyway. I think I do it to try to keep myself from falling asleep… Anyway, this kind of nervous shaking is called bimbo yusuri 「貧乏揺すり」in Japanese. Literally, bimbo [...]
iPhone Geisha App
Posted by harvey in Gadgets on 19. Dec, 2008 | 2 Comments
Another iPhone/iPod Touch app that you simply must own. It’s still under development apparently, but it looks… well… useful isn’t the right word… It’s umm…. Well, she dances! – Harvey via Gizmodo
Reischauer on the Japanese Language
Posted by harvey in Books, Culture, Language on 19. Dec, 2008 | 8 Comments
As I’m in school again I have been doing a lot of reading. Luckily for this blog a lot of that reading is about Japan! What do you think of this passage? “Japan’s cultural distinctiveness has perhaps been accentuated by her linguistic separateness. Although the Japanese writing system has been derived from that of China [...]
Exchange Journals with Native Speakers of your Target Language at lang-8
Posted by harvey in Language on 17. Dec, 2008 | 4 Comments
I just found out about this lang-8 website via Nihonhacks. It’s a service that hooks you up with native speakers of your target language so that you can exchange and correct each other’s journals. One of the techniques I have used in the past with teachers is to write a journal, give it to the [...]
Catching Loaches どじょうすくい
Posted by harvey in Culture, Language, Media, Music, Society on 14. Dec, 2008 | 4 Comments
This dojyousukui (どじょうすくい), literally “loach scooping”, is a traditional Japanese folk dance about catching loaches (どじょう). Loaches are a small tadpole looking fish creature that is frankly pretty gross to look at… but edible when fried. I have eaten them in Nagoya! The type of music that this dance is done to is called yasugibushi [...]
Doddodo Touring Europe
Posted by harvey in Music, Osaka on 10. Dec, 2008 | 2 Comments
Doddodo ドッドド from Franck Stofer on Vimeo. Read her bio and listen to clips of her album over on HearJapan. Doddodo is a musician from Osaka. Her story is pretty amazing. She works completely alone, and has been so successful that she is currently touring Europe. Her music style is quite extreme, break beats with [...]
