Twitter for your Japanese – Daily Waka

Posted on 11. Apr, 2009 @ 7:21 pm by in Culture, Language, Media Views: 214

I’ve been looking for Twitter folk who tweet about interesting things in Japanese, but haven’t found many yet.

One that I will be sticking with though is ‘dailywaka‘. dailywaka tweets bilingual Japanese waka poetry… “daily”. They’ve got a great spring theme going on now.

Here the latest tweet.

ほのぼのと春こそ空に来にけらし天の香具山霞たなびく dimly, spring has come to the skies above / the mist trails along heavenly mt. kagu

Good stuff.

Let me know if you have found any cool people who tweet in Japanese!

- Harvey

  • http://www.twitter.com/dailywaka Ashton

    Thanks for the plug!

    I was wondering why I had so many new followers when I logged on this morning. :)

    Sometimes it’s a real struggle to fit both a 31-syllable waka and an English translation into the 140-character maximum. English is so character-heavy in comparison. So I usually spend quite a bit of time economizing my translations so that they actually fit.

    This will actually be some good motivation to stick to a more or less daily schedule of updating — which, as I’m sure you noticed, has hardly been the case over the past few months!

  • http://www.japannewbie.com Harvey

    Oh ASHTON! I had no idea that was you. Seriously. It’s a great idea and I, for one, really appreciate it! You should keep it up and some day you’ll be famous! It’s great!

  • http://www.stitcher.com Ashley

    I have recently started a Twitter account announcing updates for Stitcher Japan listeners. If you’re interested,
    http://twitter.com/StitcherJapan

    Also, my personal account is @ashuri_desu_yo
    I tweet in English and Japanese.

    You may also be interested in @kotoba_app
    I’m not related to Kotaba in any way–I just follow.

  • http://garychaninjapan.wordpress.com/ Gaz

    Hi there, love the site. I’ve been searching for good twitter links too, I recently started up a twitter account and tend to post resources etc and I’m trying to post a 四字熟語 a day too. Feel free to follow on :) http://twitter.com/gaz_j_williams

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