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トリプの日本　一

きのうこのビデオをしました。しゃしんはきょねん私の日本にりょこうでとったしゃしんです。おんがくは川井憲次の「GHOST IN THE SHELL」のソウンド-トラックです。

ところで今日日本語のじゅぎょうをさいかいしました！

「トリプの日本　一」

9 Jul 2008 — 5 comments so far — Japan, Japanese, Videos

Casio EX-word XD-SP7500 Japanese-Spanish-English

Today I ordered this little marvel:

  • 27 thesaurus and dictionaries of Japanese, Spanish and English.
  • Quick jump among dictionaries.
  • Hand-written kanji recognition.
  • Encyclopedias with images.
  • Dictionaries of proverbs, computer jargon, business and economics, kanji and katakana.
  • 10K spoken Japanese words (not synthesised but actual human voice).
  • Backlight.
  • SD card slot.
  • USB port.
  • Speaker plus headphone output.

Hopefully it will find its way from Japan to the UK and will be safe with me in a few days.

Isn’t it beautiful?

17 Mar 2008 — 7 comments so far — Computers, Japanese

104

This morning on the train I wrote down from memory the 104 syllables of the hiragana alphabet without any mistake for the first time, including all modified and compound syllables and pronunciation exceptions.

I find it very gratifying to be able to read and write all those alien symbols. (Even if the most complex sentence that I’m able to build for the moment goes like “is that Takahashi’s apple?”).

Next target: the same 104 sounds in katakana.

Many apologies for such a “so what?” post, but I was so happy this morning.

Go to Flickr to see this image

20 Feb 2007 — 15 comments so far — Images, Japanese