My personal favorite site in Japanese is 教えて！goo, an open forum for questions on a wide range of topics. (I enjoy reading the 国語 forum)
Another goo site that I like is the インターネット調査 - goo リサーチ site, which features the results from a variety of surveys.
What Japanese sites (in Japanese) do some of you [...]
Entries from January 2008
January 13, 2008
Sharing the wealth
January 11, 2008
私の気に入った文
次の文は村上春樹の『世界の終わりとハードボイルド・ワンダーランド』からの引用だ。
太陽はなぜ今も輝きつづけるのか
鳥たちはなぜ唄いつづけるのか
彼らは知らないのだろうか
世界がもう終わってしまったことを
これは『菊川デイズ』という詩からの引用だそうだ。
January 9, 2008
Rebutting the rebuttal - Japan isn’t expensive
I came across a blog which asserts that living in Japan is expensive, despite what other foreigners may have to say on the issue. Based on my own view and experience, I still insist that it’s actually more affordable than living back in the States.
The author of the above-mentioned blog presents her arguments with [...]
January 5, 2008
Japanese Google Guide
Here are a few tips for using Google to study Japanese. I call it the Japanese Google Guide, or the J2G.
[From alljapaneseallthetime.com]
Vocabulary in use
Navigate your way to google.co.jp and plug in a word you’re curious about. This will yield hundreds upon thousands of examples of the word in action.
[From japannewbie.com]
A comprehensive picture dictionary [...]
January 5, 2008
Sites I’m engrossed in at the moment
I’ve been browsing, comparing the prices of, and poring over the details of sites like shopping.yahoo.co.jp, amazon.co.jp, and yamada-denkiweb.com, trying to find the cheapest way to stock a house with all the necessities for daily living in a household of three.
Of course, there’s always 中古 (used), but you can’t really judge the goods unless you’re [...]
January 3, 2008
Trying to explain an English song in Japanese
I was listening to some Elliott Smith and I was trying to think how I would explain the contents of the song to my wife in Japanese. I actually came up with a new study method in the process! What I was doing was just listening to all of my favorite Elliott Smith [...]
January 1, 2008
Roppongi - The gaikoku within.
Here’s a random blog I came across with a legitimately posed question (if not blunt),
恵比寿のクラブでのカウントダウンはまぁまぁだったな。六本木でしたかったなー。まぁカウントダウン終わったら六本木に行ったけどやっぱり外人アツいなー。警察もかなり警備してたし危険な所ではあるんだよね。なんであんなに外人いるんだろう。関東中の外人が集まったのかな。
Translation,
The countdown at the club in Ebisu wasn’t anything special. I wanted to be in Roppongi. When the countdown was over I got the chance to head over there, though, but it was thick with foreigners, just as I [...]
