Ok, I know there are a lot of strange things in Japan and this is one of the stranger one’s in my opinion. Here’s what you do, you buy the dvd with a picture of a cute girl on the cover and you learn there are 49 more of these girls that you can stare at, you plop the dvd into your dvd player and commence the show, then what you get is this…
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There is currently a trojan (if you don’t know what a trojan is, click here) called Downloader-UA.h that has been downloaded by hundreds of thousands of people. They thought they were downloading a music/video file but they were actually downloading a file that tells them to download another file to operate it, that other file was Downloader-UA.h. Take a look here to see a small list of the files that direct you to download the trojan and ways to know that you are installing the trojan. Always make sure to run virus scans, adware scans, spyware scans, and trojan scans as well frequently to make sure you’re not a victim of hackers and spammers.
Imagine walking down the street on the way home when a crazy zombie starts coming at you with a mallet, what will you do? Shoot English at it of course xD. That’s what you do in the new Nintendo DS game “English of the Dead.” Using your stylus, you write words that you read in Japanese into English on the lower screen the POW, you kicked some zombie butt. This is a interesting game thats being sold by Sega lol, what better way to learn something than through a game and I’m not talking about Cooking Mama ^^. This is a great way for Japanese to learn how to write English words and memorize them as well in my opinion. You get to play a game where you kill zombies with words, how messed up is that but it’s also pure genius at the same time xD. Now if they do the reverse and make you read English and you have to write Japanese then they might have a market in English speaking countries, I know I wouldn’t mind getting one ^^. Would you want to buy one?
No, you’re not learning about yaoi lol ;p
Since a lot of you like the attachments for Firefox that I told you about, I thought I would share more with you. Just like the Japanese Rikai-chan, there’s also a Chinese version that translates the kanji into the Chinese translation rather than Japanese. Here’s a site called Visualizing Japanese Grammar, that is a website designed to help you learn Japanese grammar through visual pictures rather than just words, this should help those who learn better visually. Ever wanted to know about all those Japanese words that frequently pop up in anime? Check out Japanese words of anime fans, by anime fans, for anime fans. I’ll keep you updated when I find more awesome stuff like this ^^.
This is for those who can read hiragana, one of the writing systems in Japan. I recently came across another Firefox plugin, the furigana injector, which puts hiragana above kanji words, this is called “furigana” in Japan. The plugin is for people who can read hiragana and understand Japanese words but can’t read kanji, this will really help you out on Japanese websites. If you’re learning Japanese then this will help you to speak Japanese more fluidly; by speaking the hiragana you read out loud, it will train your mouth muscles to speak Japanese. Just to let you know, the furigana injector doesn’t translate the kanji into English, so use the rikai-chan plugin for that. Also, there’s a setting to change the “level” of the kanji being translated, for when you read Japanese you tend to get accustomed to certain kanji’s and don’t need furigana to read it, my favorite being 見る (the first character is the kanji, pronounced mi, the second character is hiranga that is pronouced ru, so altogether it is miru, the translation for it is “see/look”) . Enjoy ^^.
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