konichiwa !!!!!!

Following the lead of what was written on this page.http://www.alljapaneseallthetime.com/blog/why-you-should-keep-listening-even-if-you-dont-understand#comments or just the aticle itself at http://www.alljapaneseallthetime.com/blog/category/listening.
but the comments are really good ,though really long.

This is my "motivator site" I use this site whenever I feel like I've spent too much time a way from japanese to really help me feel the vibe again. And then I get all excited and start revising all over again untill the next relapse occurs. The community contributing to that blog is really amazing! you can get caught up reading the comments to posts for hours!

So I finally found a radio station which could stream on a data sim speed and guess what the music is great compared to the streaming videos available from nhk and fnn. The music is what we would have liked when we were 15 but alas it is better than hunting and downloading your own music or ripping it from youtube etc. The female singers are nearly inaudible but you pick up the words when the men sing in the R and B genre really clearly.

Radio station is off soundcast at http://www.shoutcast.com/radio/JPop#navHeader Japan-A-Radio on the 28kbps option on page two of the results for jpop at the site, there is a higher bit per second version on page 1. So thats : Shoutcast.com; jpop; Japan-A-Radio; Tune in; Open; wait; listen for hours.
Ok now everybody throw in there favourite japanese radio station!

Happy listening

Discover the Heisig Method

こにちわ。

Today I started using the Heisig method to learn kanji.

Its method follows that we should learn the meaning and writing of the kanji separately from the sounds and compounds of the kanji. It also finds that learning the kanji in order of frequency does not help in remembering to write them and that an order based on the structure of the written kanji should be taken. Thirdly it does not entail using the visual memory to remember symbols rather it uses imaginative memory i.e. using the old methods of imagining a stimulating image which connects the meaning to the symbol or otherwise having a story which links them. Although I was already familiar with many of the kanji I covered today using the method I was never able to recall and write all the strokes of each kanji as easily as I did after the exercise.

The method is based on the books "Remembering the kanji I, II, & III". You can get the part one of book one as a direct download courtesy James Heisig himself. Even though the introduction is long, it will benefit you much not to skip it; the steps to follow are found therein. I did other research and found that there was a strong fanaticism surrounding the users of the method and considered the debates against it as well. to summarize my research- those using traditional methods spent more time revising a smaller set of symbols which they could use but were easily forgotten, while those users of the method revised less because they retained longer, were familiar with more kanji but could not use the knowledge until the end of the course i.e. book2. For me even if the method takes longer to reach the usability stage, the method needs a lot less will power than the learn today forget tomorrow methods I used in the past. Let’s face it my brain isn't 12 years young anymore.

Well, whenever you become a believer in the method or you’re done with the first 200 kanji in part1 of book1; you can get the rest from me. For those who can't afford the books there is a torrent containing all three, with active seeders.

By the way I’m on my 34th kanji. Yay! Want to race me?

こにちわみねさん。

welcome welcome welcome.

first up : typing in kanji and hiragana

if you have'nt yet go to

start

control panell

clock and language options.

keyboards and languages tabs.

change keyboards

highlight japanese AND microsoft IME

ok

now go toyour task bar and find EN for english

the EN button allows you to pull up the language bar and switch to japanese.

hint dont press the spacebar if you want it to stay in hiragana.