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 | 20 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 [...]
Ken Watanabe reads some Miyazawa Kenji
Posted by harvey in Culture, Language on 21. Mar, 2011 | Comments Off
Ken Wataname reading 雨にも負けず (ame ni mo makezu) by Miyazawa Kenji. This is a great poem, and you don’t need a super advanced knowledge of Japanese to understand it. This poem screams GANBARU. This is worth working through if you’ve never given this poem a look. You can get the full text of Amenimo Makezu [...]
Japanese News Earthquake Vocabulary
Posted by harvey in Language on 13. Mar, 2011 | 80 Comments
Image from Danny Choo via Wikipedia Here’s a quick and dirty list of earthquake related Japanese vocabulary and their translations that often appear in the news. This is a work in progress. I will be adding more as I well, read more. Hopefully this will help those people who want to keep up with what [...]
How to use Aozora Bunko to get free Japanese books
Posted by harvey in Books, Culture, Gadgets, Language on 13. Feb, 2011 | 4 Comments
Aozora Bunko is an excellent resource for free and legal Japanese reading material. Once you have downloaded Aozora texts you can read them on your computer, print them out, or even load them onto your Kindle. If you like studying Japanese and have an interest in Japanese literature, then I’m sure you will find Aozora [...]
Break into Manga Translation with Manga Digital Guild
Posted by harvey in Art, Books, Language, Working on 10. Feb, 2011 | 5 Comments
Lot’s of people who study Japanese hope to get into translation some day. And when it comes to translation, many people hope to do manga or game translation, why? Cause the content is freaking fun! But how to break into the field? A friend recently introduced me to Digital Manga Guild, and it seems to [...]
