Category Archives for 04 listening • 聞く事
Better than YouTube, “Stage6″
I came across a new (for me) site today. Stage6 is high quality and less noise from people uploading phone clips. They use the DivX codec to display video, so a full screen experience similar to DVD is possible. You … Continue reading
Premium Courses from JapanesePod101 大学生の一日
Judging by the title, A Day in the Life — University Student, this could be the first in a series of “Day in the Life” titles from JapanesePod101. This is a slightly new departure for jPod101. Previously their method of … Continue reading
iKaroke Tune Prompter
Make your own Karaoke videos for your iPod. Griffin are giving away a small program which allows you to sync lyrics with a song and then export that as a video. It is available for both Mac OSX and Windows … Continue reading
Listening
An important skill. But how to do it outside of Japan when you only have other learners to talk to? Actually I find talking and listening to native Japanese very hard. No matter what, the speed is quite fast; you … Continue reading
Live Action
BFI BFI publish quite a number of Akira Kurosawa films. I’d recommend the じだいげき Seven Samurai, Yojimbo, and Red Beard. Seven Samurai 七人の侍 was Kurosawa’s tribute to American westerns later remade as a western,The Magnificent Seven and more obscurely as … Continue reading
Buying DVDs
All the films above (except coming soon) are available on DVD. Send It is a good internet store to purchase DVDs available in the UK. The Japanese Center has many Japanese DVDs with subtitles for rent including the entire Ghibli … Continue reading