Archive for the category Japanese

Learning Japanese

Por kirai el 15 de December de 2008 en Japanese

This post is for all of you who want to learn Japanese or who are starting to study Japanese.
1.- Learn Hiragana and Katakana
The first step to learn Japanese is to learn the syllabaries Katakana and Hiragana. You can start learning Japanese without knowing Hiragana and Katakana but I would never recommend it. What would you [...]

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This vehicle is done to weaken an air conditioner

Por kirai el 04 de June de 2008 en Japanese

Found in a Joi’s twitt.

Some other examples of japanglish or engrish:

There are many of these translations in Japan, China and Asia in general. I think it’s normal to make mistakes and learn from them, I’m making lots of them right now. But for official and public stuff they should do it perfect, I would at [...]

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In the red - 赤字 - Números rojos

Por kirai el 20 de February de 2008 en History, Japanese

I was thinking that “in the red” (English), “赤字 - red characters” (Chinese and Japanese) and “números rojos - red numbers” (Spanish); are all similar expressions which have “red” in common and they are all referred to the same concept: budget deficit. It’s interesting ¿Why most of the cultures associate the red color with negative [...]

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Falsehood, deceive - 偽

Por kirai el 30 de December de 2007 en Japanese, Society

Every year Japanese choose a kanji character that represents the society feeling of the year that ends. The most voted character this year was 偽 (gi, nise), it means “falsehood, lie, deceive, pretend”.
The bit internal problem in Japan this year was the loss of more than 50 million records from the [...]

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Japanese bookmarks

Por kirai el 03 de October de 2007 en Japanese

I’ve been some years learning Japanese, during the learning process I’m using many tools, tutorials, resources I found on the net. In this post I will list which I consider the best bookmarks everyone should know if you are in the process of learning Japanese.
Grammar:

Guidetojapanese: the best web I know to learn the basic Japanese [...]

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Shells, Kanjis and Money

Por kirai el 16 de August de 2007 en History, Japanese

There are many places where in the old times shells were used as currency. India and China used them during thousands of years and their shell-coins gradually entered the Japanese islands. It is interesting that even nowadays there is a Japanese and Chinese character that means “shell” but if you add strokes to it the [...]

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