I've always wondered about this, until now. Here's a good answer by Kevin.
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Evidently the site I soc'd yesterday was using the photographs without permission. So I have asked for that Soc to be deleted, and am now Soc-ing the photographer's original site.
Hope everyone will...
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I, as well as my fellow j-bloggers, are often talking about the JLPT. About it’s advantages and disadvantages, about how one should prepare for it, about this year’s changes; et cetera, et cetera....
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Learn Valentine's Day related expressions, kanji, and culture through this annoyingly cute blog. Most importantly learn about the "do's and dont's" of gift giving culture in Japan.
And don't mind the...
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An incredible PDF cheat sheet for Japanese learners. Hiragana, Katakana, verb conjugating and verb forms, adjectives, particles. US and International paper sizes both available.
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Yes there really is more to Twitter than finding out what your friends had for lunch....
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This request for a hiragana learning system and the thread of replies must be seen to be believed. It restores my faith in the ability of people to catastrophically fail at even the simplest tasks.
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Alex from Victory Manual talks about how Rikaichan is quick fix that you're better off with out. I'd have to agree that it robs you of learning opportunities.
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Some good points raised in the comments here about the quality of user generated content. GIGO
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Most people get overwhelmed by kanji and put it off until the last when learning Japanese. This is about why you should maybe hit kanji in the beginning and not wait to learn.
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ReadTheKanji.com has just shifted to a subscriber model and expects people to pay for dubious and un-editable sentence pairs. Does it really matter though to the average learner?
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Guest writer Nate Jensen discusses the history and usage of the voyeuristic term 'munechira': an unexpected teasing flash of the breast.
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Please forgive me if this is a dupe, (its from May) I did some searching but it looks like nobody has put this one up yet. This is a very lengthy yet one of the most honest and non-sugar coated list o...
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Some links to websites intended for Japanese children which we can use for our evil purposes. I mean, to learn Japanese.
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