Today is Wednesday. In TheJapanShop.com land this means it is Super Suiyoubi! Today we are spotlighting two new readers: Read Real Japanese Essays and Read Real Japanese Fiction.
The cover price is $24. Today’s super price is $14—$10 off!
I’ve only read through about a quarter of the Essays book, but I’m impressed. [...]
Here is our dog, Tevye trying to get some shuteye before Makoto comes storming in. Tevye likes to sleep on the couch. This morning, I found him asleep on top of this tiny pillow.
And here is a top down view:
Our latest $5 download reader is the Mouse Bride story. It is a charming Japanese folk tale about a father-mouse and mother-mouse trying to find the ‘greatest man on earth’ for their one and only daughter to marry. One nice aspect of this story from a language learner’s point of view is similar sentence forms [...]
This morning, my friend Gary and I were talking about the competition Apple’s iPhone faces with the new Google phone and others. He asked if I had heard about Microsoft’s myPhone—or perhaps spelled, miPhone.
I hadn’t heard of the miPhone, but with a little imagination here is an early concept photo:
Now if they could only get [...]
We just completed our fifth downloadable product. Like the Shitakiri Suzume e-book, this one is a reader. It is the story of 一寸法師 Issunboushi, a pinky-sized man full of courage. Click on any sentence in the Flash e-book to hear it read, print out the story with a running glossary, and [...]
Yesterday Makoto, Tevye, and Hana were all fixated on a single tree in our neighbor’s yard. Curious, Yumi and I looked a little closer:
It was a fat little squirrel munching on an acorn while sitting on a branch. I snapped a photo with my phone. Trying to get a little closer to [...]
The one and only Prof. Breen chimed in yesterday (thank you!) about the strange RSS feed at TJP. Right now the front RSS button only feeds blogs and group posts. This isn’t very useful and Phreadom (our super admin) quickly installed a RSS feed for the forums.
Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem to work with many feed [...]
We are releasing a new $5 download pack today. This time it covers 25 of the most useful kotowaza (Japanese proverbs).
This pack includes 27 Megs of:
An E-Book in Flash for interactive study and listening
A 27 Page PDF (for printing or onscreen study)
A slow recording of each example sentence (heard in the Flash program)
A normal [...]
There is nothing more uniting for Americans of all persuasions than the universal hatred of April 15th, Tax Day. There are no Democrats or Republicans on April 15th—just one gaggle of sleep-deprived, grumpy folks waiting in line at the post office.
I don’t know why I’m complaining; it only takes 60,000 pages to explain the [...]
While reading the TJP forums, a user named Mattan used this word:
“The girl on youtube is like way more キモフィス・・・”
(check out the link above for context if you are interested in the ‘girl on youtube’)
So, curiosity got the best of me. What could キモフィス mean!?!
Googling, I found this site. It is nice to know [...]
