English Tip: know when to hire someone
Unless you are fluent in English it is absolutely a smart and essential idea to hire someone to proofread anything and everything you print in English. Mistakes in a conversation or writing a letter to a friend are fine. English speakers make mistakes all the time, no big deal. But when you are printing a brochure or using an English word in the name of your company it can lead to some pretty big mistakes. Take スウェットショップ for example. In Japanese it might be OK, but in English Read more [...]
Beginner Japanese Brain Training (from iKnow)
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width: 61px;
}
.brainspeed_application_launcher a {
display: block;
background: url('http://www.iknow.co.jp/images/launch_btn/launch_btn_brainspeed.gif') no-repeat scroll;
background-position: 0 0px;
width: 61px;
height: 61px;
padding: 0;
text-indent: -3000px;
}
.brainspeed_application_launcher a:hover {
background-position: 0 -80px;
}
Launcher
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iKnowing is Half the Battle: One of the Japanese Learning Websites
I've tried a long list of websites for learning Japanese. The tendency is usually either towards expensiveness or sparseness. And even those that I've seen which are expensive don't seem to have all that much to offer. Even JapanesePod101.com, one of the sites I've heard recommended the most, doesn't seem to offer much more than something that lightly compliments other language learning tools.
But thanks to Tofugu I've been able to hit a few gems. The biggest gem being iKnow.
iKnow is clearly Read more [...]
Minna no Nihongo (みんなの日本語 – Japanese for Everyone)
After buying too many Japanese books I've finally settled on one. The publisher thinks their book is pretty great too:Minna no Nihongo is a great book for learning Japanese. If I stopped taking lessons I would still use the book and learn from it, but I'd have to look elsewhere for answers to the things I want to know that book doesn't cover. Read more [...]
Japanese Dictionary for iPhone and iPod Touch
Because I needed a Japanese dictionary and the iPod Touch seemed to me to have the best array of options. It uses the same free dictionaries that many Japanese English dictionaries use, so that isn't its selling point. Read more [...]
