Practice with native speakers is probably the one most important component of language learning… but it’s really hard when you aren’t in the target country. That’s why a tool like the Mixxer is so great. To use it, you add The Mixxer’s contact information into your Skype acccount. Then other Mixxer subscribers can approach you […]
i went over to japanesejapanese.com for real!
i merged my WP blog into mike’s, without any hairy database weirdness.
i simply used the handy WPexport plugin, making sure to save the exported text into a UT8-encoded text file.
then followed the import instructions.
bye bye!
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 […]
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 […]
There’s loads and loads more Japanese language podcasts since I first looked for some in June. I tried listening to the myriad gaijin “whoah look at how wacky Japan is” stuff, but they’re in English anyway.
I do listen to the Nippon voice blog, but mostly it’s over my head. I am starting to pick […]
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 […]
I’ve found two audio good sources (so far) from various Japanese-related audio feeds.
Guzen Radio tells about living in Japan, so that’s interesting from a cultural point of view, and in English. It used to be called 3 Monkeys Radio, and features english speakers talking about living in Japan. He does use a little Japanese. […]
As Joshua and I set this space up, I’d like to look more at others who are using blogs or online journals for their own language learning. Especially at this point- different tools, tips for setting up the site. I’m thinking along the lines of an Audio RSS feed.
Here’s one example of a online […]