Use Twitter To Improve Your Japanese The internet has made many things in our lives so much easier and learning languages is definitely one of those. It doesn’t make the actual learning part easier, of course ^_^, but it does make the learning materials much simpler (and cheaper) to access and as such the excuses for not learning get harder to find. Oddly enough, Twitter, the social behemoth, is one such learning resource. The ubiquity of Twitter, via a strong mobile and desktop presence and a ton of third party apps, means you can connect to the Twitterverse in so many different ways. I access Twitter via Tweetdeck and Tweetie on my iPhone and then through the browser and Tweetie’s desktop client when I’m back at home – simple and always convenient.
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Japanese writing system This article is about the modern writing system and its history. For an overview of the entire language, see Japanese language. The modern Japanese writing system is a combination of two character types: logographic kanji, which are adopted Chinese characters, and syllabic kana. Kana itself consists of a pair of syllabaries: hiragana, used for native or naturalised Japanese words and grammatical elements, and katakana, used for foreign words and names, loanwords, onomatopoeia, scientific names, and sometimes for emphasis. Almost all Japanese sentences contain a mixture of kanji and kana.
Japanese "adjectives" [Back to the main Japanese page] Why do I write "adjectives" in quotes for this chapter? Because your mind has a preset idea of what an adjective is-- based on how English uses words called adjectives to modify nouns-- and the Japanese adjective is not quite the same. It is indeed a class of words that modifies nouns, but it does so in a different way than the corresponding class in English.
Theme Streets and Anime Attractions There are a number of locations around Japan that are associated with anime or manga in one form or another, and have turned into tourist attractions because of it. The Washinomiya shrine that appears in "Lucky Star", and the police box at Katsushika (from the "Kochira Kameari" manga) being two prime examples. And as Bartman905 pointed out elsewhere, the lifesize Gundam in Odaiba will also become more popular this summer. Then at the same time we have towns that have placed artwork along the streets for one reason or another that's no where near as well-known.
Japanese grammar Some distinctive aspects of modern Japanese sentence structure[edit] Word order: head final and left branching[edit] The modern theory of constituent order ("word order"), usually attributed to Joseph Greenberg, identifies several kinds of phrase. Each one has a head and possibly a modifier. Electronics and Manga Shopping There are two places to check out the manga / animation cosplay crowd in Tokyo. The heart of it all in Akihabara or the quieter soul in Nakano. We'll start with Akihabara. Good beginner manga to read? I'm loving "Yotsuba," and I'm pretty newbish. In fact, ems573, we may be around the same general level. I finished RTK1 a few weeks ago, and I've been doing smart.fm (through Step 4) and anki lists (JLPT3 and 4) since. I am pleasantly surprised that I can read Yotsuba pretty well. I still need the help of a dictionary, but there are times when I can read 2-3 pages in a row before I need to look up a word. Of course, there are also times when I stare at a page for 10 minutes, baffled.