“Language” Category Archive

2005年10月11日 火曜日

Anime and Learning Japanese Culture

by Mizuko Ito

Features, Japan Abroad, Language, Movies, Television

In her master's thesis submitted to the East Asian Studies Center at USC, Annie Manion argues that among college students in the US, anime has become one of the most important drivers of interest in Japan and Japanese language study....

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2003年05月02日 金曜日

You Think What You Write?

by Jane Pinckard

Language

Great NYTimes article about recent scholarship linking Asian writing systems to cognitive patterns (free registration required). Controversial new works by Hannas (The Writing on the Wall: How Asian Orthography Curbs Creativity) and Nisbett (The Geography of Thought: How Asians and...

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2002年12月13日 金曜日

Power of Keigo

by Justin Hall

Language

The words for "broken" and "awkward position" in Japanese sound quite similar to my still-untrained ear. Fitting, since my computer is broken and I'm in an awkward position....

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2002年11月12日 火曜日

Benefits of Bilingualism

by Mizuko Ito

Biculturalism, Language

If you were ever in doubt about the benefits of chanponism, recent research suggests that early exposure to two languages has cognitive benefits. A recent article in the LA Times writes:. " Kids who grow up in bilingual homes may...

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2002年11月09日 土曜日

Rikai.com - Magic Translation

by Justin Hall

Language, Technology

Rikai.com provides an absolutely amazing, essential service - character by character, word by word translation between Japanese and English on web pages. It works like near-magic; as you hold your mouse cursor over a particular Kanji character, and a floating...

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2002年08月26日 月曜日

Dating a Japanese Weblog

by Justin Hall

Language, Technology

For Chanpon.org, we are using some web log publishing software called Moveable Type. We're working with the nice folks that made it to help them develop support for Japanese characters in dates and times. Here's a draft sketch of Japanese...

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2002年07月18日 木曜日

Janglish Panglish

by Kaori Kitao

Features, Language

A whimzikaru rooku atua Japanese adaptation of English words....

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