Hyper Power Kanji Anki-ising!　僕、猛勉強で燃焼されてる！試験は１ヵ月後に控えてるけど、やっとピンク色の本「完全マスター：漢字」を終わらせた。すべての語彙をアンキに入れた！しかも、単なる語彙だけじゃなくて、文脈の分かる例文が含まれてるぜ！これからは毎日必死にドリルしなきゃ！

間違いがないとは保証できんけど、よかったら僕が作ったアンキ・デックをダウンロードしてみてください。例文はほとんど「Yahoo!辞書」から取ってるので、かなりいいやつだと思う。後、能力試験１級の文法のアンキ・デックも載せる！この間の録音されたやつと同じだ。 (Read on further! »»)

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• JLPT１級文法

Filed under: Japan, 日本, 日本語 on November 6th, 2008 | No Comments » | Trackback |

よーーーーし！これからはハードコアだぜ！やっと日本語能力試験（JLPT)１級の文法を学び始めた。普通に使われていない文法が多いため、２月のスピーチコンテストのスピーチを覚えたのと同じように、何回も聞いたほうが効果的かなあって思った。そのわけで、完全マスターという本を使って、すべての例文をパソコンで打って、録音した。

録音と言ったら、これだ：NeospeechのMisakiという人口声でできた。そして全部自分で打ったわけじゃない。このサイトのExcelファイルを見つけた。スンゴイ助かった！

それぞれの.wavファイルを作成して、.zipに入れてアップしたので、どうぞ、興味あればダウンして聞いてみてください。ただ、TTS (Text-To-Speech)ソフトはまだ完璧じゃないから、たまに間違いも入ったりして、声の流れも変なときもある。なので、本と一緒に勉強したほうがいいかも。
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• JLPT１級漢字

Filed under: Japan, 日本, 日本語 on November 2nd, 2008 | 3 Comments » | Trackback |

It’s Autumn and yesterday we had the Japanese Society-East Asian Society annual Halloween party. I had been thinking of dressing up as Jack Skellington, but the price of pin-stripe suits and copious amounts of white make-up required for a full-body purge put me off. Instead, I opted for a last-minute Battle Royale tribute, since I already own a gakuran (the special black jacket school boys wear in Japan) and only had to make the collar worn in the film to complete the costume! I’m pleased to say that most of the Japanese students and my classmates recognised the costume! See below for instructions on how I made the collar.
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Filed under: English, Japan, Japan-eng on October 29th, 2008 | No Comments » | Trackback |

Finally, at long last! I made it to the green island of Yakushima, tucked snugly away below Kyushu in the South of Japan. It’s a chunk of land covered mostly in sugi (cedar) trees, and awesomely huge ones at that, with sage-old weathered limbs gnarled and warped bearing thickets of leaves, all the way up to the highest point on the island - one massive climb at 1935m! Now designated a World Heritage site, it is said to rain 35 days a month, and as such is pretty much a fantasy land for moss-lovers like myself. The wet greenery sparkles and twinkles; it glistens and glows around you, even along the well-trodden tourist routes. This is one heck of a forest, and if I may be cliché about it, really did contain something magical that captured me. It was every bit as beautiful as I pictured it. But enough fantastical waffle. You want pictures! And stories! Right? Read on…

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Filed under: English, Japan, Japan-eng, Photography on October 5th, 2008 | No Comments » | Trackback |

Underwear! In vending machines! I’d heard the stories for years, at how select dodgy locations in Akihabara and other districts are home to the peculiarity of vending machines that dispense underwear. Particularly infamous are the tales of the machines that dispense *used* underwear… Thankfully this was just your ’standard’ machine, throwing out fresh panties and all manner of sex-related products. Still, it checked yet another box on my mental list of vending machine variations. I’ve now seen machines that dispense hot food, rice, flowers, canned ramen and oden, books as well as the ubiquitous cigarette and drinks machines.

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Unbelievable! There is nothing related at all?!

Filed under: English, Japan, Japan-eng, Photography on September 12th, 2008 | 2 Comments » | Trackback |