Dubbed movies should be banned! · 2006-04-10 21:27 by Damian
Quick check: did the last movie you saw have the dialog in its original language? Or was it…careful, here comes the D-word…DUBBED?
No offense you all of you out there, but Japan sucks at this! France, Germany, Italy and scores of other countries also [...]
Stay away from rÅmaji! · 2006-04-08 12:56 by Damian
This is such an important topic that I think it warrants a post on its own. As a beginner of Japanese, your first issues will be with the writing systems. Most people relate Japanese to “thousands of characters”, which of course is true when referring to kanji, but they don’t know about hiragana or katakana. Since hiragana and katakana only have 46 basic characters each, it is in fact not very difficult at all to learn at least those very quickly.
Despite the fact that kana aren’t that difficult [...]
Learning Japanese, part 1 - the basics · 2006-04-06 20:59 by Damian
So you’ve become curious about learning a new language – Japanese to be exact. Where to begin?
Fortunately there are a wealth of resources on the Internet to not only familiarize yourself with Japanese, but also do some serious studying, all on your own. If you’re a complete beginner, a good point to start is to learn about the writing systems [...]