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Can one raise a quadrilingual child?

taekk — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 23:46:00 +0000

Can one raise a quadrilingual child in a predominantly English environment? I’d like my daughter to learn Japanese because I like it, Korean because she’s 3/4 Korean, and Mandarin because I just found out that it may help her attain perfect pitch. Maybe we can study Korean and Mandarin together. We’ll see, she’s not even 1 year old.

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My facebook page

taekk — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 21:12:42 +0000

I was bored so I created a Facebook account (talk about being late to the party!). I have no idea what I’m going to do with it so it’s blank right now.

http://www.facebook.com/taekimjapanese

いまさらですけど、暇つぶしにFacebookのアカウントを作りました。何に使うかさっぱりですので、今のところ、なんにもないですよ。

New home page I updated my homepage to explain all the stuff I’ve...

New home page

taekk — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 02:55:12 +0000

I updated my homepage to explain all the stuff I’ve been adding to the site over the years besides the grammar guide which is what it started as. I’m hoping it’ll help newcomers navigate the site and also improve my … Continue reading → No related posts.

Podcasts I’m listening to now

taekk — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 20:23:31 +0000

Ever since I rediscovered all those Japanese podcasts in iTunes, I’ve been trying to find some interesting ones. So far, I’m really enjoying ゆうのテキトーお悩み相談室 (itunes link). It’s really funny! It’s also pretty risque so don’t ask some Japanese kid to help you with understanding it!

There’s also a bunch of audio dramas (such as this one) that seem like it might be worth a listen. At least, the format is different from the usual talk radio.

I’m also listening to this Korean podcast.

Any other podcasts that you would recommend?

Japanese podcasts on iTunes I recently discovered this trick to get Japanese podcasts on...

Me, myself, and I

taekk — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 15:09:20 +0000

Does anybody else find there’s no good male word for “I”? 「私」 is too formal except for work (which I no longer do in Japanese). I was comfortable with 「俺」 for a while but now I’m too old and Mr. Rogers-ish. And I never liked 「僕」 as it feels a bit too much boy scout-ish. I wish there was something not as rough as 「俺」 but not so boyish as 「僕」. Maybe something new in that crazy slang young people are coming up with all the time?

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2010 and audio still sucks

taekk — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 04:31:19 +0000

I finally got around to adding sounds to the Hiragana chart. Check it out. More needs to be done but it was hell getting it all working. I didn’t feel like using flash (not supported by iPhone and iPad) and instead opted for the html 5 audio tag. Only problem is that there is no single audio format that works for more than 2 browsers. So I wrote a script that changes the audio file based on your browser. The volume control is buggy in Firefox and of course, none of this works for IE (until IE 9). Anyway, long story short, setting up audio on a webpage is still a LONG way away from being something a non-techie can do. Isn’t that kind of sad?

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The story of A-san

taekk — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 04:17:32 +0000

My twitter account is the story of A-san told in the form of a dialogue. Rules for replying and adding your own dialogue lines are below. Not sure how well it’s going to work but here goes.

気まぐれ会話のルール：
１）会話の続きは、「@kimchi314」の返事で行う。
２）会話の続き以外の返事はダメ。
３）返事は、日本語だけ。
４）話し手を明確にする。

例えば、「@kimchi314 A：ありがとう」

Update: I will retweet any interesting replies (with maybe a little embellishment). Eventually, I will follow good contributors. Use #kimagure for meta discussion about 気まぐれ会話

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気まぐれ会話

taekk — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 17:56:31 +0000

Follow my twitter account!

http://twitter.com/kimchi314

I’m going to try something interesting (or at least I hope it turns out interesting). (Hint: read post title)

I’ll wait a few days to start or until I get 100+ followers.

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Google buzz

taekk — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 17:35:50 +0000

Great, another Twitter account but now in my email and without the hassle of having to add followers (they pre-load from your contacts). I guess my major problem is I don’t spend enough time online ALREADY.

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Death Note on Hulu

taekk — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 19:15:36 +0000

I was recently informed that Death Note is available to watch completely for free on Hulu. And with none of that dubbing crap, which used to be all so common back in the day. I feel like an old fogey when I think back on how difficult it was to get any sort of Japanese content in the United States back in the day. I used to feverishly grab onto whether random stuff I could get my hands on. For crying out loud, at one point, my only source for study was a 単行本 of 「新きまぐれオレンジ★ロード」 that I happened to get a hold of somehow. Seriously, I had that exact book, cover and everything. You guys no longer have any excuse!!

(An an aside, I still remember one of the FIRST words I ever looked up in my Kanji dictionary was in the first couple sentences of that book: 「瞳」. Guess what? Since it’s not in the 常用漢字 list, it wasn’t in my dictionary. So I was pretty screwed to begin with until I luckily managed to find WWWJDIC. Thanks, Jim Breen!)

By the way, my favorite anime of all time is Lain. Who can resist an anime that talks about internet protocols and Memex? Yes, I’m a geek at heart and personally, I can’t wait for IPv7!

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