2005-11-19

Jekai.org and ◎, ○, △, ×

Von roger @ 16:10 [ Japanese (日本語) ]
Jekai.org

Example:
にじゅうまる, まる, さんかく, ばつ【◎, ○, △, ×】
These four symbols are used to indicate comparative ratings, with ◎(にじゅうまる) being the best and ×(ばつ) the worst. ○(まる) is moderately good and △(さんかく) is moderately bad.


Moji - Lecture Guides to chinese characters and translations

Von roger @ 00:46 [ Japanese (日本語) ]
MOJI Firefox Extension

Moji

The moji project aims to help foreigners learning Japanese language to read web pages. The main goal is to add lecture guides to chinese characters (kanji) and translations. It is a Mozilla Firefox & Thunderbird extension.
Thanks Erwan

Via nihongo.3yen.com

See also:
JGram - The Japanese Grammar database
JLPT Kanji Project

2005-11-05

Learning Kanji and speaking Japanese via VoIP

Von roger @ 12:01 [ Japanese (日本語) ]
Learning Kanji
Learn Kanji and see your progress:
OCha No Kanji is a completely free, simple software designed to map your knowledge of kanji.

Playing while learning kanji

Rikai Kanji Map
Also great is that you can read any website written in Japanese with Rikai.


Speaking Japanese
Now that we have VoIP, you can also start speaking with people from Japan with a very very small budget. You can find a good introduction here:
Get Ready for Voice Chatting!

See also:
So you really want to learn Japanese?

Via Japanese Japanese

2005-11-04

otoko no ko no kao

Von roger @ 00:36 [ Japanese (日本語) ]
otoko no ko no kao
Eine gute und einfache Art wieder ein bisschen Kanji zu schreiben. Was ich noch bräuchte ist ein Filzstift. Ein nicht zu dünner und nicht zu dicker Filzstift, vielleicht auch zwei.

Siehe auch:
Andrea und das Papier
Was ging mir noch so durch den Kopf? Ach ja, das: Was man auf einem Blog tut, kann man genausogut auf Papier, im Tagebuch. Es bleibt dabei das Gefühl des Stifts in der Hand, das Fühlen des Papiers, usw. usw. Was man auf Papier nicht kann: Bilder mit dem Scanner basteln. Was man verlernt: die Dinge anzuschauen und: zu zeichnen.
Oxonomo und Ihr chinesischer Karteikasten
Words + pictures > words alone
All it takes is a little getting used to. I'm always amazed when teachers do eleborate white board drawings, but never put them in their books or articles. Or when engineers can do fabulous napkin drawings to explain things to colleagues, but never put them in their books or articles.
Gapingvoid
und natürlich der i日本語 Podcast, der immer besser wird:)

Kyooryuu

Von roger @ 00:25 [ Japanese (日本語) ]
Kyooryuu

2005-10-31

A Podcast about Japanese Classical Literature

Von roger @ 16:22 [ Japanese (日本語) ]

2005-10-30

A Japanese guide to Japanese grammar

Von roger @ 22:56 [ Japanese (日本語) ]
Awesome!
A Japanese guide to Japanese grammar
This site explains Japanese grammar in a systematic step-by-step process and is released under the Creative Commons License (2.0). It was created as a resource for those who want to learn Japanese grammar in a rational, intuitive way that makes sense in Japanese. The explanations are focused on how to make sense of the grammar not from English but from a Japanese point of view. To learn more about this guide, go to the introduction page and start learning this intriguing and unique language!
There is also a forum.

Via imediaconnection's RSS, CNET's RSS explanation, Project Gutenberg and ibiblio which finally landed me at the japanese guide.

2005-10-26

i日本語

Von roger @ 00:08 [ Japanese (日本語) ]
iJapanese

Update:
I listened to part no. 4, Counting and it was quite funny, beginner's stuff though - as Heather told me already.

The situation is that the guy (what's his name by the way?) does the introducing and explaining in english, the japanese girl (and what's her name?) does the japanese part and both together they do the repetitions. So you get at the same time a native speaker's japanese and the learner's japanese with an accent which is probably quite encouraging when you are a beginner yourself. At the end of the counting podcast the guy promises to add soon stuff for more advanced users. So we should keep an ear on it;)

Thanks to Heather, I heard from this Podcast (Audio and Video). I'll try it out and if it's good, I certainly will talk about it here.

See first podcast post

2005-10-16

Looking for japanese podcasts

Von roger @ 13:02 [ Japanese (日本語) ]
I am looking for japanese and "how to learn japanese" podcasts. If you can recommend anything, please leave a comment. Thanks

Related:
ALC Podcasting Station
Japanese Podcasts (Metroblogging Tokyo)
Podcasting News: Japanese
scrape your own podcast
Learn Japanese (43 Things)
Mixi jp

and
Podnova Weblog

2005-09-24

Dictionary of Chinese Characters and Japanese for your mobile phone

Von roger @ 17:52 [ Japanese (日本語) ]
I just discovered the Dictionary of Chinese Characters in case I can't find a kanji here.

Btw: Jim Breen has also a page for mobile phones:
English - Japanese
Japanese - English and Japanese Text Translation



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