Learning Japanese Gets Genki: A Review

Rate This Textbook: (3 votes, average: 4.00 out of 5)  Loading ... Genki is a very popular textbook, and it was this popularity that convinced me to make it the first text book I bought, and began my quest to learn Japanese. This was back sometime in 2005 and I was self studying. It was my first attempt at learning a language, apart from some years earlier in school in Italian and...

Tada, Kimi wo Aishiteru – Movie Review

ただ、君を愛してる Just, Loving You International Title: Heavenly Forest Staring: Miyazaki Aoi, Tamaki Hiroshi, Kuroki Meisa, Koide Keisuke Rating: Rate This Movie: (7 votes, average: 4.57 out of 5)  Loading ... A story of a group of university students. Makoto is a quiet and awkward guy who loves photography. Shizuru is a weird and childish girl who often lies. They trespass...

Journey to the top of Osaka – Hep Five Ferris Wheel

Hep Five Ferris Wheel Info! Cost: 500円 106m high Number of Gondolas: 52, max four people per gondola Time of Round Trip: 15 mins Opening Hours: 11:00 – 22:45 After our visit to Osaka Jo, we went to Umeda to visit Hep Five and it’s ferris wheel on the roof. As soon as we got off the subway we had an older man come up to us to show us to the correct exit. I mean, sure that is...

Arashi no Shukudaikun #120

嵐の宿題くん Arashi no Shukudaikun #120 Rate This Episode: (1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)  Loading ... This episode’s guest was Tokio’s Nagase Tomoya, who has stared in My Boss My Hero and Utahime among others. This episode was awesome, ...

To Grammar Or Not To Grammar, That Is The Question

I’ve been reading a few articles lately about learning grammar vs. not learning grammar. Most of these articles are in the Not To Grammar group, which is interesting as I am in the “at least at first, if you want to, and I do, To Grammar” group. Yes, perhaps I’m in the minority with the latest crazes running through the language learning community… I don’t...