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RealWay Media Player for Japanese-English Study

Posted on 24. Jul, 2010 @ 2:13 pm by harvey in Language, Media Views: 1,174

Try this tool from RealWay Media to work on your Japanese reading comprehension.

Here’s a screen shot. Click it to enlarge.

Learn with the Realway Media Player

If you like what you see go check out the actual player and try it out for yourself!

You can listen to the English, and read the English and a good Japanese translation at the same time. You can also easily pause and go back to repeat anything you may have missed.

This particular content is probably better for Japanese people studying English, but hey, language learning is a two-way street… usually. Sometimes. Until you start only using a Japanese-Japanese dictionary… which is cool too.

Other places on the RealWay Media page have Japanese-based content that you will also find useful. Check it out in the links below.

Here is a list of all the videos available of the RealWay Media Player:

Japanese Content (Includes a Kana track)

ElomaticMill Mood – It’s music! Sing along!
ElomaticMill Television
Rashomon Part 1
Rashomon Part 2
Rashomon Part 3
Rashomon Part 4

Obama/White House Videos
(You may not be interested in politics, but the reason Realway Media uses so much of it is because it’s public domain, free to use for any purpose.)

The White House Situation Room
Elena Kagan In Her Own Words
Weekly Address June 26, 2010
Weekly Address June 5, 2010
Inauguration Part 1

Here’s more info straight form the horse’s mouth:

Here are some of the features of the RealWay Media Player:

Feature: Displays two subtitle streams at the same time

The subtitle streams displays the English and Japanese transcript at the same time so you can quickly compare the translations. The subtitles don’t cover up the video, so it won’t make viewing the video difficult. Users can also select additional subtitle streams (if available) using drop down boxes (for example, some of the videos include a Kana track). Of course, if users want to turn off one or both of the subtitle streams, they can also do that using the drop down boxes.

Feature: Repeat/Skip by Phrase (also available as keyboard strokes)

Users can conveniently review phrases they didn’t understand by a quick click of the repeat button. Users can also easily skip through phrases by hitting the skip button. On the keyboard, the left arrow functions as the repeat button and the right arrow functions as the skip button. The space bar also functions as a pause button.

Feature: Cue Point Number Display

By displaying the cue point number, users can quickly refer to the content by phrase as they watch their video rather than by confusing time codes.

Feature: Transcript Page

Users can choose to display the entire transcript of all the subtitle streams. This makes it easier to review words and phrases after watching the video (you can also use the Firefox extension Rikaichan on the transcript page!).

One more reason to get your study on. Get to it!

- Harvey

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