Kansai-ben iPhone App Audio Preview #2
Posted by harvey in Gadgets, Language on 21. May, 2009 | 2 Comments
Here is another sample from the upcoming Kansai-ben Application illustrating the difference in intonation used when speaking Kansai-ben when compared to standard Japanese. In this audio sample both speakers are saying the exact same thing, but one person is speaking in the standard Japanese intonation and the other is a native of Osaka speaking with [...]
Quickie: JapanShop Sale till Friday Morning (EST)
Posted by harvey in Language on 16. Apr, 2009 | Comments Off
Quickie sale alert for your Japanese-studying needs. The Japan Shop is having a 10% off sale on everything in the store until Friday morning (EST). That includes this nice collection of their popular $5 downloads on CD, which is on sale for $24.95 (retail $29.95). Take an additional 10% off that and get 12 of [...]
Textbooks for learning and teaching Japanese
Posted by harvey in Books, Language on 06. Jan, 2009 | 9 Comments
My wife is thinking about trying to teach Japanese to people in the neighborhood as a side-business. She knows Japanese, of course, but has never taught it, so now she has to “study” Japanese in order to build up a lesson plan. Luckily with the excellent textbooks available for Japanese learning this isn’t going to [...]
Free Live Japanese Language Lessons
Posted by harvey in Language on 06. Dec, 2008 | 2 Comments
Hey fellow Japan-heads. Free live Japanese lessons using Internet cameras and whatnot are available through a company called edufire. Check out this post on the Tofugu blog for more information. Eventually users will have to pay a monthly fee to use the service, but for now it’s free. I haven’t tried them yet myself, but [...]
