Intensive Japanese at OSU – Interview with @curryisyummy
Posted by harvey in Culture, Language on 04. Aug, 2011 | 1 Comment
Time for another interview with a fellow Japan Head! This time we talk to David (@curryisyummy) who will tell us about the intensive summer Japanese program that he is doing in Ohio at the moment. He finishes the program on August 19th, so he’s really right in the thick of it. If you still have [...]
Unbelievable! Old School Japanese Slang
Posted by harvey in Culture, Humor, Language on 16. Jul, 2011 | 5 Comments
Today I attended a wine tasting party and there happened to be tons of old-school Japan hands there along with their respective Japanese wives. It was a little awkward being the youngest dude in the room by an entire generation, but it was cool to hear their stories. One man had lived in Japan in [...]
A Poem by Misuzu Kaneko
Posted by harvey in Art, Culture, Language on 09. Jul, 2011 | 6 Comments
Kaneko Misuzu One of my good friends told me to check out this poem by Kaneko Misuzu [wiki] quite some time ago, and I finally got around to it. The poem is short and sweet, and not too difficult, so you can use it as a study tool as well. I have provided a simple [...]
Japanese Calendar Converter for iPhone
Posted by harvey in Gadgets, Language on 09. Jul, 2011 | Comments Off
I’ve had this app for a while now. It’s simple, but useful, and free! The title is, “Gengou Free” By Masayuki Akamatsu. It converts the year counting system you’re used to, like 2011, into the Japanese system which is like 平成 (Heisei) 23. You know how when you’re filling out some form at a service [...]
Tadoku Again! What to Read?
Posted by harvey in Books, Language on 29. Jun, 2011 | 4 Comments
Kafka! Again! Tadoku is coming again! I haven’t performed very well in the Tadoku competitions. I do read a lot of Japanese daily, because it’s my life, but I have trouble sticking to whatever novel it was that I picked for the contest. Also, I’m too lazy to record pages of games or random webpages [...]
Japanese on StackExchange
Posted by harvey in Language on 20. Jun, 2011 | Comments Off
There is yet another place for you go to ask all your questions about the Japanese language without fear of being ridiculed for being too geek. japanese.stackexchange.com Some of you may recognize the format of the stack exchange site from another fairly popular site that called onJapanese. Well, basically they are the same thing. The [...]
Which is harder, Japanese or Chinese? For me.
Posted by harvey in Language on 22. May, 2011 | 22 Comments
People often ask me whether I think Japanese or Chinese is harder to learn. The answer is Chinese. Yes, Chinese is harder. Blog post over, have a nice day… Kidding. I think it breaks down like this. Which is harder, Japanese or Chinese in terms of… Becoming conversational: Japanese Comprehending average-joe native speaker: Chinese Reading [...]
Read or Die with Tadoku – AGAIN
Posted by harvey in Language on 31. Mar, 2011 | 1 Comment
It’s that Tadoku time again everyone! Remember when I blogged about the last Tadoku Competition? It feels like so long ago… but it was only a couple of months back! You can check the Read More or Die blog to see how I did last time. In one month I logged 186 pages of Japanese [...]
