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Japanese fonts! Whee!

annelions — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 02:49:56 +0000

So, apparently, I am ‘studying’ Japanese again. How did this happen? I think it was one of the FF things I installed. It’s a Firefox add-on called PeraPera-kun and it is nifty! It has a Japanese dictionary and all you have to do is hover your mouse over the kanji/kana/hiragana (I still cannot remember which is what) and it pulls up definitions for you. Of whole words! Things I have seen before took each character separately, but this one will take the word as a whole.

It is so handy. Now I just need to remember how to pronounce all the bazillion (okay, not really) hiragana so I know how to pronounce Japanese properly.

..I'd travel around

annelions — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 12:04:15 +0000

If I were rich, of course. One place I want to go to eventually is Japan. They have the nifty USB Christmas tree, as well as other cool gadgety things.

Of course, I want to be able to speak Japanese when (if) I go there. This, of course, requires study and stuff. Learning any language is hard; I always have a hard time remembering all the different words and I tend to get confused over which word means what.

Ah, well, I'll get it all right one of these days!

Nihongo ga wakai masu ka?

annelions — Wed, 04 Jan 2006 08:45:45 +0000

Or, in other words:

Do you understand Japanese?

On another of my language spurts, I'm studying Japanese now. French is more likely to be useful, but I need more French books! (Mainly, a French grammar book.)

It seems somewhat easier to study Japanese online… Search for something like 'French language lessons' on Google and you'll get a bunch of not-so-useful sites like Rosetta Stone software and such. But if you instead use 'Hiragana', 'Katakana' or 'Kanji' (the Japanese 'alphabets'); you'll find many more helpful things.

So, anyway, I am now tackling Japanese. It is both simpler and harder than English. The lack of spaces between words is especially confusing!