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I started French lessons yesterday. Let me tell you that learning a foreign language is hard enough but trying to decipher it from Japanese is even harder. Hopefully I'll learn something, there are only 6 lessons.After class, I went across the street to... ...full story at Adventures In Japan

from Adventures In Japan on Tue, Oct 07 2008

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10 Apr 07 visit Let's Learn Japanese Basic 1: [ Episode 19, Part C ]  »  YouTube videoEpisode 19, Part C of Let's Learn Japanese Basic 1. This episode is called "Mt. Fuji will come into view before long". japanese japan nihongo nihon nippon language lets learn kanji hiragana katakana lessons lesson
13 Oct 08 visit Japanese Students Don't Like, Yawning  »  Mottekaero My Japanese students are generally hard working and always try their best.Many of them come for lessons right after work or give up their weekend to squeeze lessons into their family schedule. They have sacrificed their free time to learn my language.It...
12 Mar 10 visit Book Reviews › Traditional approaches to Japanese language learning are changing  »  Japan Today When Nagiko Umino started out as a Japanese language teacher, she didn’t realize how much she would end up learning from her foreign students. Last…
08 May 08 visit Started Japanese Class  »  Mottekaero Tonight I started studying Japanese again.My town offers free Japanese lessons for foreigners so the wife signed me up and tonight was the first meeting. It wasn't really a lesson as such, more of an introduction and level check.It was really cool to see...
08 Nov 07 visit English lessons on youtube  »  TEFLtastic If you search “English lesson” on youbtube, there are a couple of British Council lessons and stuff you could look at. Quite frankly though, televisual English lessons are something much better left to the Japanese:
14 Oct 08 visit Politics › British PM says world can learn lessons from Japan's mistakes  »  Japan Today British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Tuesday that the international community can learn lessons from the slow way in which Japan dealt with its banking…

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