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 or iPod Touch.
1) First tap the Settings icon probably on your first screen:
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 the audio here:
Dojo Kun and Niju Kun
The Dojo Kun are five succinct guidelines for becoming the [...]
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 Taiko group started, Elvis played an encore.
Don’t get me wrong, I like Elvis. It’s just when [...]
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 it is actually the base for our first iPhone app called Japanese Phrases and Lessons. If [...]
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 him for suggestions for improvements.
His wife’s family lives in Brazil and speaks Portuguese and Japanese–no English. [...]
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 the iTunes real estate. These are the “new releases.”
Or actually, they aren’t.
“Sort by Release Date” [...]
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 you can see how the error erred. But I have no idea how any of this “translation” became what [...]
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 to download for free. He told me he is almost ready to publish a non-digital [...]
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 more videos!
(see Youtube Account to be #6001)