Archive for June, 2010

Things We Learnt from our Last Trip to Japan

Japan Travel Tips

Whenever you fly into a foreign destination you typically have to learn things in a hurry. This is especially true when you can’t read or understand a word of the language.

Here are 5 quick things we learnt from our two week trip to Japan with hopes that they might save you a few headaches.

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Learning Japanese – An Opinion

Learning Japanese

Now I am not by any means an expert on learning languages, nor in learning Japanese in particular. But I have tried to learn some languages and am currently trying to learn Japanese so what the heck, here’s my opinion =)

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Japan Trip – Updates

Well it didn’t take us long to to book the trip to Japan. Once I found out we had Flight Centre here in Canada now, I went over and tossed them my tentative travel plans to price out. It turned out not to be such a bad price.

However, it looks like to get the best deal and fly on a top airline, we’re going to end up flying almost around the world.

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1,945 Kanji in 10 Minutes

Have you ever wanted to see all the 1,945 recommended kanji for reading Japanese? Well…now you can in just over 10 minutes.

Thanks to Kiraianet for the link. Also check out Japan Today for news on what 196 new kanji were added to the jouyou kanji list bringing the total up to 2,136 official kanji characters.

Cute Things From Japan-Cute²

Komaneko

One of the cutest things I have found from Japan is KomaNeko.

You can check it out here. The cutest stop action movies you have ever seen. And such a sweet character.

Another adorable and popular thing is amigurumi.

There are so many sweet things you can crochet.

But! What if you combined these too cute, kawaii things. It’s cuteness to the max, and you can make it yourself!

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Japan Roundup

It’s time for another Japan roundup featuring all that’s new and wacky from Japan!

Among other things, we’ll take a close up look at the samurai sword and take a peek at one crazy Kung Fu bear.

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