Monthly Archives: October 2009

How to Enable Japanese on an iPhone

This is actually pretty easy to figure out by stumbling about in the iPhone Settings, but from time to time I hear people asking.  So, here is how to turn on the Japanese keyboard and voice commands on the iPhone … Continue reading

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Two New Karate Related Posts at TheJapanesePage.com

I’m working on an update for our Karate app on the iPhone.  It contains karate related Japanese terms and phrases. As a request from a user, I’m adding two groups of phrases and decided to add them to TJP with … Continue reading

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Thai Elvis versus a Taiko Group

You have to see it to believe it, folks. Last week at the Asian Festival in Gainesville, Florida, a Taiko group was supposed to follow Thai Elvis—yep, he was a Thai impersonator of Elvis.  The only problem was, as the … Continue reading

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$5 Download for Beginners Now .99

For a limited time (meaning, Clay hasn’t decided yet!), we are discounting our popular Beginners Vocabulary Download to less than a buck! (well, ok, one penny less than a buck) This instant gratification download has over 500 sound files and … Continue reading

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Japanese Vocabulary: Family Words

I just added a new section to theJapanesePage.com’s online audio phrasebook: Family Words A few days ago, I got an email from a user of our Japanese Phrases & Lessons iPhone app.  He was very complimentary;  I had to press … Continue reading

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Apple is Smarter than This: iTunes App Store Release Date Madness

An iPhone user with digital cash in hand hunting for the next killer app to impress his iPhone-less friends, views a category in the iTunes App Store.  He is instantly greeted by twenty apps filling up the better part of … Continue reading

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Hats off to Machine Translation

Hmmm…  I need to rethink the pedagogical value of our videos.  Here is a comment from Youtube: 私は今ているおかげで私と言うのおかげで帽子を教えて (translation) thanks. i can now say thank you in japanese Usually a machine translation of Japanese is funny.  It is funny because … Continue reading

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Nihongo Resources Grammar Book

Mike Kamermans over at NihongoResources.com has been working on a project for years now.  In all likelihood, you’ve seen his site and you may have even downloaded his book-in-progress.  It is a comprehensive book on Japanese grammar and available here … Continue reading

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6000 Youtube Subscribers Today!

On February 4th, 2008 I proudly announced that our Youtube account had 1000 subscribers.  On July 18th, 2008, we got our 2000th subscriber.  I didn’t exactly keep track since then, but today we hit 6000.  I really need to make … Continue reading

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Japanese Phrases & Lessons for iPhone 2.0.1 is out!

Apple just approved 2.0.1 which has a few bug fixes and adds 250 or so phrases from the Grammar lessons to the Flashcard / Quiz part. 2.0.2 should be ready soon.  2.0.2 will squash a few more errors and add … Continue reading

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