Lightning, The Wife of the Rice Plant
Posted by harvey in Culture, Language on 16. Apr, 2009 | 18 Comments
In Japanese kaminari 雷 is “thunder”, and inazuma 稲妻 is “lightning”. For a long while I think I was referring to both of them as kaminari… Anyway, I recently realized that inazuma is in fact the correct way to refer to lightning. Then, like any good language geek, I checked it out in my dictionary. [...]
Read The Kanji – a JLPT Kanji study app
Posted by harvey in Gadgets, Language on 28. Mar, 2009 | 8 Comments
I just found out about Read The Kanji this morning. Guess how I found out about it? Via Twitter! Twitter is awesome, I’m telling you… But, this post is about Read The Kanji (which is also awesome), not Twitter. Learn JLPT 1 Kanji, or Start With Hiragana In Read The Kanji you select what you [...]
Apple Widget For Those Who Can’t Write Kanji
Posted by harvey in Language on 27. Aug, 2008 | 1 Comment
Here’s a Japanese Apple dashboard widget for people who forget how to write Kanji from time to time (everyone). The name of the widget is simply, 「漢字が書けな〜い！」, and means “I can’t write Kanji!” You can download Kanji ga Kakenai right from Apple Japan. The widget is ridiculously simple. It’s just a text field with huge [...]
Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary at The Japan Shop
Posted by harvey in Books, Gadgets, Language on 26. Jan, 2008 | 2 Comments
Just a quick heads up! To all you Kanji geeks out there. The Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary is available on TheJapanShop.com now. Kanji whee! In addition, for those of you who have the incredible GW9600 Sharp electronic dictionary (like me) you can get the same Kanji Learner’s Dictionary on an SD card to load into [...]
