Archive for August, 2005

writing in japanese

Thursday, August 4th, 2005

in a previous post, TelimTor suggested in the comments that i could write in japanese. seemed crazy to me at the time. but now that i’ve got a whopping 15 hiragana characters down, (the unvoiced, vowels, k’s and s’s) i can start taking notes in japanese. now that is fun.
(in mac, i clicked on […]

kana learning sites

Thursday, August 4th, 2005

i’m trying to learn the kana through writing. i’m using A Guide to Learning Hiragana and Katakana (Tuttle Language Library) and starting with hiragana. for review i’m either going to make my own flashcards, or i was thinking i could actually do it in flash, and make electronic ones with audio.
then it dawned […]

dr. blair’s japanese in no time

Wednesday, August 3rd, 2005

i listened to dr. blair’s “japanese in no time” during my five hour flight from san francisco to boston. i made it through one run of the first CD and half of the second. i realized it was getting ahead of me, so i went back and started reviewing CD 1.
the programme has an […]

shopping spree

Tuesday, August 2nd, 2005

until now i had not spent any money on this little hobby. i wanted to spend ages reading reviews of products and making a plan for self-learning. i’d like to see if i can get some hours with a japanese tutor in the autumn, after i get some more self-learning done. i went to […]