Monthly Archives: October 2009

How to Enable Japanese on an iPhone

Posted on October 30, 2009 by Clay

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

Posted on October 29, 2009 by Clay

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

Posted on October 27, 2009 by Clay

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

Posted on October 26, 2009 by Clay

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

Posted on October 21, 2009 by Clay

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

Posted on October 16, 2009 by Clay

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

Posted on October 14, 2009 by Clay

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

Posted on October 13, 2009 by Clay

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!

Posted on October 11, 2009 by Clay

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!

Posted on October 1, 2009 by Clay

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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