This time it is for beginners. Our most recent readers have been really for Intermediates and somewhat for upper beginners, but today’s release is made specifically for beginners. The classic tale of the Tortoise and the Hare in Japanese!
This pack includes:

An E-Book in Flash for interactive reading and listening (listen to the entire [...]

Keatonatron from the TJP forums (and elsewhere of course) studies art and video making in Japan. He has an amazing video using time lapse shots of Tokyo.

You can see a better version on his website: www.jmacwhyte.com

Last Friday, we went to Disney World for a convention on foreign language instruction. The convention was in a hotel within Disney World limits, but we didn’t actually get to see Disney or the real Mickey Mouse.
Still, Makoto saw plenty of Mickey Mouse signage and shrubbery art. On the way home, leaving Orlando, [...]

We went to the zoo today. Makoto (the soon-to-be three year old) had a blast and Megumi (the already four month old) enjoyed the scenery from her stroller when the sun wasn’t in her eyes.
Friday, we went to Disney World for a foreign language teaching expo. It was very nice, but with that [...]

Every Wednesday we discount a book as low as it can go for 24 hours or so. Today’s Super Suiyoubi deal is Beyond Polite Japanese.
I think any student of Japanese should get this book at some point–not recommended for beginners, though; even Picasso learned the rules before he broke them.
This book has fun words like [...]

I was looking at the stats for the download section and was amazed to see how many people have downloaded files.
The average file rating is 4.042 out of 5 stars
There are 47 files in the database
There has been a total of 57,555 downloads
The newest file is Japanese Beginner Phrases Podcast 9
The highest rated file is [...]

I got an advertisement from Oxford University Press with a special sale on the OED.  The Oxford English Dictionary is, well, the mother-of-all-dictionaries. 
Oxford is celebrating the 80th anniversary of the dictionary’s completion. It was started in 1857 and the original 10 volumes was completed in 1928.  It has since grown to 20 volumes [...]

I mentioned a few months back that I was experimenting with podcasting and iTunes. Well, we just uploaded #8 and have up to #12 in the can waiting for Clay to add to the site and update the XML file.
The other day I went to the podcast’s home in iTunes (Clicking here will open [...]

Rich has been sending me the English translations quickly and, amazingly, I’ve been quickly working on them. Here is Chapter Seven, 第七章 　買物 Shopping:

For the script and download link, go to the Yuki Chapter 6 page at TJP.

第六章 　都に到着 Arrival at the City