Image-based Japanese Flashcards for your iPod

Posted by in Gadgets, Language on 02. Nov, 2008 | Comments Off

The JLPT is less than 40 days away now, are those of you who are planning to take it ready? If you need a bit more help cramming vocabulary and kanji, PlaySay might have a solution for you. Image-Based Flashcard Examples for ANY JPEG capable device are now available. Here are the JLPT 1 images [...]

Register for the JLPT

Posted by in Books, Language on 19. Aug, 2008 | 5 Comments

Time to register for the JLPT folks. The test is December 7th, all around the world. I passed JLPT level 1 back in 2003, but I’m going to take it again as incentive to keep studying Japanese even while back here in the states. I am a slacker by nature, so I need something like [...]

Beef up your JLPT vocab with PlaySay

Posted by in Language on 30. Jun, 2008 | 1 Comment

JapanNewbie here, introducing you to a new Japanese study product – PlaySay. PlaySay is a labor of love by a fellow Japan-head. To put it simply, the PlaySay team has put the vocabulary that you need to know for each of the JLPT exam levels into MP3 format, and added text and audio tricks to [...]


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