This morning we awoke to Makoto prodding Yumi with an:
あけて！あけて！Akete! Akete!
We were puzzled what he meant. 開けて！ of course means ‘open (up)!,’ but open what? The door?
しばらくしたら・・・ After a little while…
After a little while, Yumi realized Makoto meant:
おきて！おきて！ Okite! Okite! (Get up; wake up!)
This made more sense.
This reminded me of going to summer [...]
A Japanese reader for intermediates by Richard VanHouten
第三章 狐との出会い Encounter with a Fox
For the MP3, explanation, vocabulary, and subsequent chapters, please see:
http://www.thejapanesepage.com/audio/…
and for the complete series see Rich’s site:
http://www.citlink.net/~richvh/
When my sister got her iPhone almost a year ago, her parents-in-law (with mere mortal cell phones) used to joke, “Can your iPhone get us a drink?” or “Make your iPhone change the channel.” or “Let’s see if your iPhone can swim.” Of course “iPhone” was said with a little sarcastic drawl.
Well, it probably [...]
I finally got this podcast series into iTunes! If you search ‘Learn Japanese’ in iTunes it will pop up (not first of course ). If you like it, please subscribe using the RSS feed button to the right (that is the feed just to this beginner podcast series). Or you can subscribe in [...]
We were driving home from buying Makoto some new toy cars. Yumi’s mother was driving and Yumi was ‘backseat driving’ in the front passenger seat.
Seeing the upcoming light turn yellow and sensing her mother’s intention to make a run for it, Yumi yelled out, “kiiro!” (Yellow). Yumi’s mother hearing the panic in Yumi’s voice slamed [...]
There are many joys to be found from living in Japan. Low crime rate, friendly cashiers, and the thrill of being in the land where both Kitty-chan and Godzilla (the kawaii & the kowai) can happily coexist are three such examples.
But indisputably the greatest joy can only be… watching bakabakashii Japanese television.
Dave Spector, an American [...]
No doubt the recent price drop move by Apple encouraged Amazon to lower their Kindle price, but unfortunately they didn’t lower it much.
Apple $400 -> $200 ($200 lower!)
Amazon $400 -> $359 (not as much lower!)
I am still infatuated with the idea behind Amazon’s Kindle e-book reader, but I’m not convinced dropping $40 will make people [...]
I just got an email sent through the comments section of our store.
AM MR SCOTT SMITH I WILL LIKE TO MAKE AND ORDER FOR SOME ITEM IN YOUR STORE SO I WANT TO KNOW THE TOTAL COST OF THE ORDER PLUS SHIPPING COST TO NIGERIA.VIA FEDEX EXPRESS 3 TO 5 DAYS DELIVERY OR DHL 3 [...]
Yesterday, I made a post about the newest addition to our $5 instant download collection: the second (and final) part of the JLPT 4 kyuu Vocabulary pack. To celebrate, I decided to make the $5 download a $2.50 download.
All was fine.
We got a few orders here and there for it. This was pretty remarkable since [...]
These two $5 downloads have been more work than all the other readers combined. Whew. But I hope they will be useful.
If you are studying for level 4 (the easiest) of the JLPT, check out the $5 download page for the two $5 packs.
HOWEVER, for a limited time (I haven’t decided how long), we [...]
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