Posted by Steve J Lobston | Japan | Posted on February 18th, 2010
1. Give attention to spoken Japanese to start with
Lots of people starting to learn Japanese wish to know whether they should start off learning hiragana, katakana, and kanji, the three sets of scripts that comprise the Japanese written language, or whether they should focus on the Japanese voiced language.
It’s best to definitely focus on the Japanese spoken language when beginning. There are 2 excellent reasons for this. First of all, the normal sequence of language learning is to obtain a grasp of the spoken language before learning to read and write.
Take into consideration when you grew up you were certainly quite fluent in your mother tongue when you began learning to read and write.
Secondly, if you have some fundamental knowledge of the spoken language it will make it far easier to learn to read and write Japanese, or really any different language. Besides what is the point of learning the characters and the scripts if you have no idea what the words mean and no idea of the grammar used to form sentences?
You’ll make far better progress learning Japanese if you initially focus on the spoken language. Read more...
Posted by Brendan Carpenter | Japan | Posted on February 6th, 2010
Even if you have the most expensive knife in the world, if you use it often, it will get dull. A great knife will usually stay sharp for up to one year. When you do have a great knife you often use it everyday for cooking and preparing food. If it’s dull, that great knife is useless.
You can take your knives to a professional knife sharpener, or you can take the time to learn it yourself and save a ton of money. Bear in mind it does take a bit of time to really learn how to sharpen your knife, so don’t practice with your best knives or you could damage them.
Visually, your knife may look sharp, but a simple test can reveal quickly if your knife is really sharp or not. First, take a ripe tomato, and then slice it down. If the tomato gets halved easily, then it is sharp, but if it squishes down, it means the knife is not as sharp as it may seem. It needs sharpening. Read more...
Posted by Wayne Torres | Japan | Posted on January 7th, 2010
Anime has been known since the early of 20th century, but not until the 1980s that it attains conventional credit from the world. It is the Japan that makes anime popular. Even though some countries in Asian also draw anime nowadays, when you hear the word anime it is mostly attributed to the Japanese anime. The history of this art is quite long, starting from Japanimation to anime. During the earlier decades of introduction, Japanese artists and others in the industry tried to develop new animation techniques to perform like those in western countries, and the concept was known as Japanimation. They make it great and anime is really popular now.
First of all, anime is different from the ordinary cartoon animation. They cover many genres to meet everyone’s need and taste. With quality graphic and detail precision, you can enjoy animes from the sweet drama to the thrilling action ones, from the scaring horror to the stimulating erotic ones.
The fact that anime is created mainly by ideas make it possible to land everything a human’s brain can think of. Unlike real movies which needs months to years of preparation, shooting, and finishing, a masterpiece of animes can be created in a relatively short period of time. With some helps of technology, anime creators can create their wildest desires for you to enjoy. Read more...
