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Using Twitter to Practice Japanese

Started by tofugu · 1 year ago

A couple of weeks ago I wrote about using Mixi to practice your Japanese. This week I will be talking about another valuable (but fun) online tool that is a little easier on the busy learner. I started getting into Twitter because I thought it would be a cool addition to this site. Every day […] ... Continue reading »

25 comments

  • Rebekah

    1 year ago

    I feel pretty lame for posting this, but, I believe it's "1337" not "7337". v_v;;
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  • Viet

    1 year ago

    You fail Koichi.

    Teet talk, hahaha.. Teets.
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  • koichi

    1 year ago

    if I'm lucky, I can pass this off as being a pun on "tweets," the form of posting on twitter... :)
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  • クリス

    1 year ago

    I remember watching a video about these Japanese girls using that 1337 speak on their cell phones. I think it was called コギャルゴ (kogyarugo).
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  • Fredy

    1 year ago

    Leet is annoying. :\ I hate myspaces th4t h4v3 p30pl3 wr1t1ng l1k3 th15.
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  • Deas

    1 year ago

    Great post! I took your advice and joined.
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  • Joyce

    1 year ago

    cool:)
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  • kevinnwhat

    1 year ago

    looks cool. Ive been translating most of the articles over at koichiben lately. I tried to do real japanese ones from the 朝日新聞, but they have so many kanji that i havent learned yet, so im gonna hold off till i get some more kanji in my brain. And yeah, 1337 talk = annoying as hell.
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  • koichi

    1 year ago

    Oh nose, there are so many mistakes over there, though. Be careful not to learn too much from it

    (_ _);
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  • kevinnwhat

    1 year ago

    i mostly use it for reading practice, i dont think ill pick up any grammatical errors and start doing that myself.
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  • Becci

    5 months ago

    https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/...
    I found this, it puts furigana above difficult kanji so that you know how to read it.
    I havn't tried it, but it looks like it would be handy.
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  • Broan13

    1 year ago

    Question about Joost (you posted on it on Twitter and I don't know if you can comment using Twitter to twitter).

    Is it at all illegal? my college is cracking down on certain types of downloads due to threats from the RIAA and such organizations, and I don't want to start downloading Gojira if its going to get me in trouble ><
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  • koichi

    1 year ago

    Nope, Joost is 100% legal. You just have to deal with a few advertisements, but it's not nearly as bad as television.=
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  • Broan13

    1 year ago

    I assumed so, thanks. Usually people who write on well named blogs wouldn't recommend anything illegal, but 58 students recently got subpoenaed (thank god for Firefox spell check) so I am very cautious about what I download.
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  • Viet

    1 year ago

    I'm curious.. What school do you go to? The RIAA, MPAA, and DMCA have been issuing notices to my school, but the administration hasn't caved in giving up the students identifications.

    Oh, and screw the RIAA and MPAA :)
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  • クリス

    1 year ago

    Yea, my school hasn't really done anything except lowering our bandwidth and restricting the amount you can download on a daily basis.
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  • aliene

    1 year ago

    hmm another interesting tool you're introducing, Koichi! O_O I'm having fun on mixi so I guess this is probably just a good!

    (btw, lol your new hat rocks)
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  • grey

    1 year ago

    thanks for this. I'm already addicted! Best thing for familiarising myself with more Japanese vocab and slang since... well, Mixi.
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  • chi

    1 year ago

    hello,
    i have joined in Twitter , there re so comments from diffrent people , so I can study japanese from there ??or only practising vocabulary.??

    wat the effective way to use it ,can u explain more...
    よろしくおねがいします。
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  • Kirby

    1 year ago

    One again Koichi... You've convinced me. I always wanted to try Twitter but never had a real reason. =\

    Anyways, add me guys:
    http://twitter.com/Miyavix3
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  • chi

    1 year ago

    hic hic no comment reply,,,sad :(
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  • YoyoKirby

    1 year ago

    Koichi, I'm starting to wonder something. Why did you pick Twitter? I'm not to fond of it because of the 140 character limit. I always have much more to say, and that's a problem. I'm actually checking out Tumblr.com. It looks really cool. You can upload as much as you want, plus videos/pictures/audio files. Best of all, you can customize your Tumblr page.

    If anyone's interested, you can add me on Tumblr.

    http://miyavix3.tumblr.com/
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  • Sougen02

    1 year ago

    I guess the 140 character limit is what makes it so easy. Short, sweet and simple 8)
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  • YoyoKirby

    1 year ago

    D:
    What I'm trying to say is... Why would you want limits?
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  • jrfiction

    11 months ago

    I find the 140 character limit fairly non-restrictive, even more so when tweeting in Japanese. I was really hooked on it for a time, when I lived in Japan, until I racked up a ni-man phone bill. Now I'm back in Australia, I've switched phones, and I no longer use it as much. I'm really missing the bilingual capabilities of my Sharp, looking for an app for my Sony Ericsson.
    The most useful thing on twitter is constant chatter, and exposure to a conversational style of written Japanese. Engage your followers in conversation.
    http://twitter.com/jrfiction
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