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Re: Using Twitter to Practice Japanese

Becci — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 17:00:26 -0000

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.

Re: Using Twitter to Practice Japanese

jrfiction — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 08:52:58 -0000

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

Re: Using Twitter to Practice Japanese

YoyoKirby — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 23:23:58 -0000

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

Re: Using Twitter to Practice Japanese

Sougen02 — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 18:44:36 -0000

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

Re: Using Twitter to Practice Japanese

YoyoKirby — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 13:32:06 -0000

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/

Re: Using Twitter to Practice Japanese

chi — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 03:28:14 -0000

hic hic no comment reply,,,sad :(

Re: Using Twitter to Practice Japanese

Kirby — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 20:29:21 -0000

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

Re: Using Twitter to Practice Japanese

chi — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 11:49:28 -0000

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。

Re: Using Twitter to Practice Japanese

grey — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 07:19:45 -0000

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

Re: Using Twitter to Practice Japanese

aliene — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 00:36:25 -0000

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)

Re: Using Twitter to Practice Japanese

Kurisu — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 21:44:06 -0000

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

Re: Using Twitter to Practice Japanese

Viet — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 17:57:27 -0000

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 :)

Re: Using Twitter to Practice Japanese

Broan13 — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 17:30:03 -0000

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.

Re: Using Twitter to Practice Japanese

koichi — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 17:12:53 -0000

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

Re: Using Twitter to Practice Japanese

Broan13 — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 17:10:47 -0000

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 ><

Re: Using Twitter to Practice Japanese

kevinnwhat — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 18:03:30 -0000

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

Re: Using Twitter to Practice Japanese

koichi — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 15:17:24 -0000

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

(_ _);

Re: Using Twitter to Practice Japanese

kevinnwhat — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 14:20:48 -0000

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.

Re: Using Twitter to Practice Japanese

Joyce — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 00:18:26 -0000

cool:)

Re: Using Twitter to Practice Japanese

Deas — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 22:46:16 -0000

Great post! I took your advice and joined.

Re: Using Twitter to Practice Japanese

fredydb327 — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 21:45:25 -0000

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

Re: Using Twitter to Practice Japanese

Kurisu — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 20:52:45 -0000

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).

Re: Using Twitter to Practice Japanese

koichi — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 18:59:38 -0000

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

Re: Using Twitter to Practice Japanese

Viet — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 18:27:59 -0000

You fail Koichi.

Teet talk, hahaha.. Teets.

Re: Using Twitter to Practice Japanese

Rebekah — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 17:13:03 -0000

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