Genki Japan Blog はじめまして。

This is just a quick update. Namely, my computer was having dire troubles lately, so I haven't been on. I'm currently working on a number of things, so the updates will be coming like mad. Here's a list of what I'm doing right now. 1. A thorough explanation of sentence mining. I've mentioned it before, and even given you the tools to get going, but then I realized that I didn't do that great a job of explaining it. 2. A review for The Language Hacking Guide, which I think is the best handbook for the output method. 3. More Friday reviews. 4. Removing Wordpress's tag pages from Google's index search, because it's so annoying that you get the tag pages rather than the actual post's from Tanoshii Nihongo , which is where this blog has moved. Remember, updates will eventually cease on this version of the blog.

I feel horrible having not written a post worth writing at the moment, but I've been putting all my effort into getting Tanoshii Nihongo up and running. Aside from my normal posts about language learning, Japanese news, and Friday Reviews, you can check out the tools and products pages on Tanoshii Nihongo to get a peek at all the reviews I'm trying to get caught up on - and those are just the recommended ones! I'm still working to get the site streamlined, and when I get enough money (if you'd like to help, you may buy from one of the affiliate links so that you actually get something in return, or you can donate at the bottom of this post; all money goes towards the site's upkeep and buying more products to review), I plan on buying a premium theme to make things even better. I also plan on putting a forum in at some point.

This little website is starting to grow up, and is now a self-hosted WordPress website with a new name: 楽しい日本語 Tanoshii Nihongo - there's only one "i" in the URL. Anyway, right now it doesn't look so great, and it's growing very frustrating, but one day it will be an amazing website. So, what does this mean for my little blogger site? Nothing right now. Tanoshii Nihongo isn't nearly ready for any real work, so I will continue to post on both blogger and the new the site for the time being. I'm still getting the hang of wordpress, and to be perfectly honest, I still love this little blogger blog enough that I'm not going to simply abandon it, especially at this early stage. Basically, I'm just letting everyone know that a new and improved site is in the works, but it could take a while.

Note: Last Monday was Halloween, and I meant to do a horror film review, but didn't get it done in time, so I might still post that up. Japanese is an extremely interesting language, as anyone learning it can tell you, but it can also be very frustrating at times, especially when it comes to verbs and particles. Now, when it comes to the former, I'm afraid I don't have any neat tips or tricks (at least not yet), but there's an amazing reference book out there that makes learning particles amazingly easy! I already mentioned it in my post about reading in Japanese , and I keep this book by my side as I read, so when I get stumped, I can just look up the particles in question. So, allow me to introduce, All About Particles . This is a great book that covers every single particle, , adn every last way to use them. For each particle, a description is given for each of its various usages, followed by several example sentences for each usage. It's very brief, but very cle

When starting off on your language-learning journey, and even long after it's ended, it's easy to get caught up in methods and what methods work the best. Now, on this site I endorse every method, whether you're a university student or a self-learner; whether you eat, drink, and sleep textbooks, immerse yourself into the language, or speak your way to fluency. I don't care because I know that everyone learns differently. That's why I hate it when people out there try and make it sound like there's only one good way to learn. I've come across people who look at input methods and say, "Whatever happened to hard work! Is this some new age cult of language learning!" and I've come across people who bash on the output method saying, "You know you're still not good at it!" These people are ignorant, and I don't use that word often or take it lightly. You see, there's a lot of ways to learn a language, and I myself use different

Yesterday and this morning, I found myself helplessly struggling to watch a really odd Japanese movie called パコダテ人, when I got distracted by the Japanese video sharing website, Nico Nico Douga (ニコニコ動画) and typed in "My Little Pony" in English. Why did I do such an odd thing? Someone on the Reviewing the Kanji forums (review coming soon) said that the Japanese were fansubbing the show, which has now become an internet phenomenon. I got myself acquainted with the show and the memes associated with it (be careful, as it's suprisingly addicting) and decided to check it out next time I was bored. All I can say is that if you're at least an intermediate learner, you should be using Nico Nico Douga, and if you're a brony , this is a great way to indulge your love of the ponies while learning Japanese at the same time. Learning is supposed to be fun, and if it's fun for you, then excellent! So, how do you learn Japanese from fansubs of My Little Pony ? First of all,