Review: Kanji Solitaire for iOS
Posted by harvey in Language on 05. May, 2013 | 1 Comment
Hello everyone! I have been playing with @tuzen’s Kanji Solitaire App for iOS over the past week. This app is a great idea, and a much needed fresh approach to kanji study. There are lots of kanji Apps out there, but none like this. Kanji Solitaire App is a kanji puzzle game where you slide [...]
Evangellion makes Suizenji Kiyoko popular to a new audience
Posted by harvey in Language, Music on 06. Jan, 2013 | 1 Comment
Thanks to geeking out on Evangellion I recently stumbled upon this classic Japanese song called 365-step March. This song is appears in EVANGELION:2.0 YOU CAN (NOT) ADVANCE when the new character Mari is fighting an Angel near the beginning of the movie. Being the crazy character that she is, Mari sings this song as she [...]
Shared my Japanese Anki Deck
Posted by harvey in Language on 21. Oct, 2012 | 2 Comments
I just shared my Japanese Anki Deck! It’s very personal. Basically when I see something I don’t know, I write it down, and then some day I stuff it into Anki. I have been using Anki for years, so this deck is monsterous. It has like 700+ cards and they are of no particular difficulty [...]
Kasagumo – Umbrella Cloud
Posted by harvey in Culture, Language on 21. Jul, 2012 | Comments Off
New words! More culture! I recently learned the word “kasagumo.” I think I first heard it when I was visiting a Japanese art museum with a friend (@guideyu) and she was surprised I didn’t know the term. It bothers me when Japanese phrases come up in everyday conversation that I don’t recognize… so I looked [...]
Japanese in Hawaii
Posted by harvey in Language, Travel on 28. Mar, 2012 | Comments Off
I visited Hawaii for the first time this month and was blown away by the amount of Japanese around. There were signs in Japanese, Japanese food, Japanese tourists, white people hawking goods to Japanese tourists in broken Japanese… the whole nine yards! There are countless Japanese restaurants and even an ultra-famous Japanese Shaved Ice Place [...]
BBQ Meat Day Explained
Posted by harvey in Culture, Humor, Language on 27. Nov, 2011 | 1 Comment
What do these people have in common? Michael Jackson, birthday: August 29, 1958 Bae Yong Joon (Yon-sama), birthday: August 29, 1972 John McCain, birthday: August 29, 1936 Charlie Parker, birthday: August 29, 1920 Right! Their birthdays are the same! But what about their birthdays is special and interesting to those of us studying Japanese language [...]
Japanese slang: Bacchiguu
Posted by harvey in Language, Media on 03. Sep, 2011 | Comments Off
Time to learn some 90s Japanese slang!!! バッチグー!!! I can hardly even remember why I wanted to blog about this phrase… Ah yes, I do remember now. So I’m slowly working my way through Devil Survivor, a sweet strategy RPG for DS, and there is one character that says this phrase over and over again. [...]
Swearing in Japanese
Posted by harvey in Culture, Language on 13. Aug, 2011 | 8 Comments
Come on, admit it. The first time you started learning Japanese you wanted to learn all the swear words. There’s no shame in that, I did too. But now that you know a few, and you’re a bit more geek, you want to know what they really mean and where they came from, right!? Maybe you [...]
