Having been in love with Japanese cellphones for years, I broke my habit and 2 years ago waited in line during the iPhone debut in Japan and got me a brand spanking new iPhone!! Only to find out that it wasn't really ready for the uses and abuses of a typical day in Japan.
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JAPAN THIS! Add Kaomoji to Your iPhone's Dictionary - DIY kanji conversion is finally possible!!
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Kanji Makes Japanese Easy
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Most people get overwhelmed by kanji and put it off until the last when learning Japanese. This is about why you should maybe hit kanji in the beginning and not wait to learn.
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And the kanji of the year is…
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Winter is not just about holidays, but also about recapitulations of the year’s achievements and mishaps, as well as announcement of words & kanjis of the year.
Read more »Crazy kanji: what's the highest stroke count?
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Sooner or later, every Japanese learner asks the question, "Which Japanese kanji has the most strokes?" This article covers top stroke counts by school grade, test level and finally by dictionary, from the relatively easy 12 stroke 森 (1st grade) all the way up to the 84 stroke behemoth, "taito"
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How to write kanji - stroke order
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When a student is taught kanji, one of the first thing that is explained to him is the concept of stroke order—the one and only correct way of writing kanji characters. Unfortunately, the reason behind it as well as the main rules are often left undiscussed.
Read more »Reading material: Aesop's Fables
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If you’ve found Bam&Kero too simple, too boring or too short, I have a something new to read for you today. Aesop’s fables are well known all over the word and thus it comes as no surprise that his writings were also translated into Japanese language.
Read more »Dangers of reading too many Japanese blogs
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It's true, all those tiny pictures of anime characters and pesky indecipherable kanji can play havoc with your eyesight,. Try this handy eye chart to test if you still have 20/20 vision.
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Read The Kanji - a kanji quiz application
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Read The Kanji is a web based application designed to help those studying Japanese to learn kanji reading patterns through context. In other words, it helps you learn to read kanji by asking you to read actual Japanese sentences.
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Easy Kanji Anyone Can Read
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Kanji are the mysterious Chinese pictographs used in China, Japan, and to a limited extent, in South Korea. While they can seem like meaningless chicken scratches at first, they're actually a well organized complex system for communicating meaning. There are several fundamental ways that kanji are constructed, for example...
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Application/Game Review: Learning Japanese with Nihongoup
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I couldn't work out if I should call Nihongoup a game or application, it's a seriously fun tool! I've been using it for about a week now, and I think it could be really useful for people that need to attack their kana and kanji study.
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Temple demands kanji organization start following the letter of the law
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Kiyomizudera temple here will not host an annual event to publicize the kanji character that best describes the passing year unless its scandal-ridden organizer straightens itself out, officials said.
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Learn the kanji for cow
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Learn to write the kanji for "niu" or bull in Chinese via this video clip at emedia. I thought this was interesting because the way of writing the kanji is completely different than in Japanese, even though it is basically the same kanji.
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The Most Useful Kanji: "Ki"
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Sometimes part of the fun of studying a language like Japanese is "surfing" the linguistic elements that are totally different from anything found in one's own native language. One of the most common kanji characters is ki, a rather all-purpose kanji for expressing abstract ideas, and it's quite a useful little devil. It may have even been the inspiration for The Force in Star Wars...?
Read more »'Change' the kanji of 2008
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Tons of "changes" for sure. I would have recommended '呆'('ho" meaning dumbfounded or appalled)....
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Aso buys books on diplomacy, but no comics
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Hmmm, international politics and diplomacy, eh? Sounds like a good start. But, can he read kanji all right? Do those books come with furigana? He could have looked for manga version of the books, couldn't he? Well, at least, it was a good photo op, I suppose.
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Intuition in Speaking Japanese: the Wrath of Kan
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I've written before about how effectively studying a language requires certain things. A real desire to learn is important, as is being inventive enough to figure out how your own brain learns best. It's also useful to have what the Japanese called kan (kahn, 勘), a word which means perception or intuition, and which refers to the ability to figure out meaning in abstract situations.
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Kanji + Food = Delicious
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Found this on digg... An interesting image of food-related kanji!
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Do you know the Sino-Japanese number system, man?
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Learning to think in units of 10,000 can be a challenge. Also: do you say "man" or "mahn"?
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