{"id":384,"date":"2010-06-08T16:55:38","date_gmt":"2010-06-08T21:55:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/?p=384"},"modified":"2010-06-08T16:55:38","modified_gmt":"2010-06-08T21:55:38","slug":"online-all-the-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/2010\/06\/08\/online-all-the-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Online all the time?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been following the mobile tech news including the new android and iPhone with interest. It certainly seems like a lot of exciting stuff is happening and many areas could offer innovations in learning languages. In particular, voice recognition could potentially allow a program to check your pronunciation and text-to-speech could read out any Japanese text. Definitely, Android seems to have a lot more innovative stuff that could be potentially leveraged for language acquisition. And we already have touch screens all over the place so I&#8217;m hoping it&#8217;s only a matter of time before you can look up kanji online by writing it with your finger. Still, I haven&#8217;t bought a smart phone of my own, so I can&#8217;t test anything myself. I&#8217;m just not keen on being online all the time and certainly not by paying $100 every month. I already pay over $40 dollars for broadband. I&#8217;m not even on the road that much and have access to a computer most of the time.<\/p>\n<p>Do you have a smartphone and is it worth the money?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been following the mobile tech news including the new android and iPhone with interest. It certainly seems like a lot of exciting stuff is happening and many areas could offer innovations in learning languages. In particular, voice recognition could &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/2010\/06\/08\/online-all-the-time\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-technical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}