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 [...]
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/
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?
I recently had Yumi record a few body part vocabulary words. It ended up as a page at TJP (here). Today, having a little extra time, I threw it together as a video:
If you want to learn very useful Sushi related words, you should consider getting his book:
BTW, you should check out Hulu.com. Tons of ad-supported (free to the viewer) television shows, clips, and even full length movies. Looks very promising.
I realized this morning I haven’t made a video in a few weeks. Well, Yumi and I are working on a new downloadable $5 product on kotowaza (Japanese proverbs). So because I have a one-track-mind, here is a video on one of my favorites:
I’m still spending a lot of time working on setting up the new TJP.com. Here is a video showing off a few of the new features:
The screen capture software I used really slowed down Premiere (the video editing software I use). I don’t know exactly what it did to it, but it made a [...]
I’ve been so busy with theJapanesePage.com move, I haven’t posted or done much else lately. Here is a new video on basic (very basic) directions in Japanese:
It looks like most people are able to log in successfully at TJP.com. If you haven’t joined, please check it out!
In the coming weeks we [...]
