in my language exchange with david yesterday, he gave me a compliment on my pronunciation joking that he thought it was a native speaker. i said ‘thank you’; but of course if i was a real japanese speaker i’d have demurred and said it was awful. surely, he was just being nice, but it was […]
this is so cool! can i get one of these in a portable version?
Voice of Japan is a Japanese text to speech machine. Voice of Japan generates voice from written texts. Lean back and listen to your Japanese text being read by a gentle female voice. Paste any Japanese text from websites, email or […]
I was rooting around looking for language learning materials in the English speaking market, knowing that this area is far more developed in terms of products available. In doing so, I came across probably the worst advice I’ve ever heard for learning anything:
Step 3: No mistakes: Avoid mistakes. Try to use correct English from the […]
I’d love to try an exchange with a native language speaker, but in the past face-to-face I’ve ended up speaking moostly english, and not really know what to do.
Over on 43things, I saw someone write about the problem, and was curious to ask more about it:
http://www.43things.com/comments/thread/128292
The writer, Joaquim, mentions two possible places to meet […]
so, there’s no learning japanese podcast? wah wah wah. whine all i want, i still won’t be able to find one! i tried recording one myself and a friend laughed at me! but i’ve found another way that you can easily make podcasts from web pages.
i have found some free audio out […]
むかしむかし、mukashi, mukashi (long long ago)… i began my never-ending quest for free audio resources to learn japanese…
thanks to toothinglummox (from the japanese wikibook) who gave me some titles of japanese folktales: Momo taro, Urashima taro, Kintaro and The Moon Princess.
this lead me to find:
japanese folktales, in mp3
they are written in kanji, no […]