Japanese 101: Giongo and Gitaigo App Released
Posted by harvey in Language on 12. Aug, 2009 | 1 Comment
Unless you’ve been living under a rock and not checking your twitter for the last 30 minutes, you probably heard that the Japanese 101: Giongo and Gitaigo iPhone app has finally hit the App Store! You can read more about app here, and of course, check it out in the iTunes store if you’ve got [...]
Japanese 101 Facebook Page
Posted by harvey in About on 17. Jul, 2009 | Comments Off
In my attempt to be “hip” we set up a Japanese 101 Facebook Page where people can complain about, or rave about, our iPhone applications for learning Japanese. Japanese 101 on Facebook Check it out! Got another new app in the works – but it’s still being worked! More news later. By the way, if [...]
Kansai-ben iPhone App Preview Audio
Posted by harvey in Language on 19. May, 2009 | 6 Comments
Hey everyone, Some audio files from the upcoming Kansai-ben iPhone and iPod Touch Application are below. The varied differences with standard Japanese (標準語) make Kansai dialect a ton of fun to hear and speak. There are simple grammatical differences like changing the negative “nai-form” of verbs to “hen” (e.g., 行けない to 行けへん), but there are [...]
Upcoming Project: Kansai-ben App
Posted by harvey in About, Gadgets, Language on 18. May, 2009 | 3 Comments
Announcements, announcements! For the past three months we (me, my wife and The JapanShop.com team) have been working on a big project. You have probably tried out JapanShop.com’s free trial version of their Japanese phrases application, and perhaps their Japanese Idioms app too. Well, we have created a similar application that introduces Kansai dialect phrases. [...]
Download 101 Common Japanese Idioms
Posted by harvey in Gadgets, Language, Media on 22. Mar, 2009 | Comments Off
The Japan Shop is offering a 52 mb download that includes text and audio explanations of 101 Common Japanese Idioms for the ridiculously low price of $2.50. This download will be $2.50 for a limited time only, after which the price will be $5.00. As always with The Japan Shop downloads, you get your data [...]
Japanese Phrases iPhone App
Posted by harvey in Gadgets, Language on 10. Mar, 2009 | 4 Comments
In case you haven’t tried it yet, here is a promo video of the JapanShop’s iPhone/iPod Touch application. You can get a 400-phrase version of the application for free, and upgrade to the full 800-phrase version for less than the cost of a slice of pizza. おいしいですね。 – Harvey
Free iPhone App from The JapanShop
Posted by harvey in Gadgets, Language on 20. Feb, 2009 | 3 Comments
I think this is “pointing-JapanNewbie-readers-to-free-stuff week”. The JapanShop has come out with a free iPhone or iPod Touch application for Japanese learners. You can upgrade from the free 400 phrases to the complete 800 phrases for $3.99. Also, if you upgrade you get a $5 coupon good for anything at TheJapanShop.com. Yes, the product costs [...]
