Posts Tagged ‘japanese’
McGaijin Software interview – Learn Hiragana Now!
McGaijin Software have just released their first iOS app “Learn Hiragana Now!” to help you learn the Japanese hiragana alphabet. Here is my interview with them. 1. Tell us about your new iOS app. 'Learn Hiragana Now!' is my little app to help people to read and write hiragana (one of the Japanese syllabaries) in as fast a time as [...]
Sending a letter back home from Japan
If you are in Japan on holiday you may well want to send a letter or postcard back home. Here are some simple tips to help you out if you aren’t sure how to do it. Addressing the letter Address your letter as you normally would in the language of the country you are sending it to. I’d suggest writing the country name in block [...]
Free Japanese OCR translation
If you have a Japanese document on paper there are plenty of services that will translate it for a price, but it is also possible to get a machine translation done for free. It might not give you a great translation, but it might be good enough for you to at least work out what the document is. There are two stages to translating a document in [...]
How to be a vegetarian in Japan
Out of all the places you can visit in the world, one of the hardest for being vegetarian must be Japan. In Japan you will find it hard to find restaurants where you can get vegetarian food, and you will find your options for vegetarian food in supermarkets more limited then they will be in most other countries. The Japanese vegetarian [...]
Japanese survival phrases and Japan survival information
If you live in a Western country such as Britain, America or elsewhere in Europe then Japan will seem a very alien country when you first arrive. They language, writing, alphabets, foods and customs are so different to ours that Japan can be a big culture shock to the system. Japanese survival phrases If you look on the internet or in a book [...]
iPhone apps for learning Japanese
There are many different ways you can learn a foreign language such as Japanese. There are classes, textbooks, CDs, applications for your PC or Mac, podcasts, language exchanges etc. Now you can learn Japanese on your iPhone and iPod Touch as well. I’ve tried many different iPhone Japanese learning apps and am going to review the five apps [...]
