Twitter for your Japanese – Daily Waka
Posted on 11. Apr, 2009 @ 7:21 pm by harvey in Culture, Language, Media
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
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Ashton
Apr 12th, 2009
at 18:30
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!
Harvey
Apr 12th, 2009
at 21:33
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!
Ashley
Apr 13th, 2009
at 19:51
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.
Gaz
Apr 25th, 2009
at 21:04
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