On February 4th, 2008 I proudly announced that our Youtube account had 1000 subscribers. Today, we just got our 2000th subscriber. (see Youtube Account)
Let’s see, I joined Youtube in December of 2006, got 1000 subscribers in February 2008, and 2000 in July 2008.
First 1000: 1 year 3 months
Second 1000: 6 months
They say the first [...]
Here is a short video from yesterday.
And…
Baba’s (grandma) car is a Honda ‘Fit.’
For the past month or so, whenever Makoto sees another Honda Fit on the road, he shouts out, “Baba’s car!”
He never makes a mistake. I don’t know how he does it, but with a mere glance he knows–and he is right. I can’t [...]
注文の多い料理店
Chuumon no Ooi Ryouriten
The Restaurant with Many Orders
by Miyazawa Kenji
We’ve been working feverishly to get this e-book reader done before Yumi enters the hospital (tomorrow!). It took longer than I anticipated (Can you say ぎりぎり?), but it is done–and I think (read: hope) done well.
You can get a preview of the MP3 and learn [...]
We are working on our next $5 reader. This time it will be Miyazawa Kenji’s 注文の多い料理店 The Restaurant of Many Orders.
This story is great. Not only is it interesting to read, but it also repeats certain themes and grammatical patterns and has a few fun word plays.
I wanted to share one sentence with [...]
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/
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 [...]
A brand new Video!
Even Monkeys Fall from Trees–One of the most famous Japanese proverbs.
猿も木から落ちる
saru mo ki kara ochiru
The example sentence (not to be taken too seriously), is more for intermediates:
猿も木から落ちるというけど、あんなに賢い国語の先生が、「一」という字を間違えたな んて信じられない。
As they say, “Even monkeys fall from trees,” but for such a brilliant Japanese teacher to mess up such a character is hard to believe.
猿も [...]
My friend, Gary has a Youtube channel. If you like his music, please subscribe. He checks his view count (and subscriber count) constantly—probably obsessively.
He currently has 281 subscribers–anyone want to be #282?
We are working hard on the second (and final) part of our JLPT vocabulary 4 kyuu $5 download. It *should* be ready by Monday. This has been the most ambitious of our $5 downloads, but I hope one of the more useful too. We had to split the vocabulary packs into two downloads [...]
Standard Podcast: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download Standard Podcast: Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadI just finished adding all the parts (and sound files) for Akutagawa’s short story Hana. If you are around the intermediate stage, please check it out! It’s about a monk named Naigu with a very, very long nose.
One line caught my eye and thought I’d share it with you. The story starts [...]
