Hoolan

GReeeeN

Posted in Japanese, music by hoolan on August 26, 2009

GReeeeNGReeeeN are J-pop band I have been a fan of for sometime, their music is more on the rock side of J-pop not heavy but certainly not poppy like Arashi. The group is made up of Hide, Navi, 92 and soh all of which have studied dentistry at Ohu University of Fukushima pretty weird history for a pop group if you ask me.

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Creating your own Japanese TV channel

Posted in Japanese, Life, TV, Uncategorized, Web by hoolan on August 18, 2009

jptv

This tutorial is mainly for PC users. I don’t own a Mac ): so I have no idea if this works or not. I imagine it will but you might have to search around for some other programs that are for Mac.

So if you are using the same method of learning Japanese as I am,  All Japanese All the Time, you will need to completely immerse yourself in Japanese. Even if you are not following the same method doing this helps tremendously. Now there are plenty of ways to do this such as always listening to podcasts, music or watching anime and J-drama. But these get stale pretty quickly especially when you don’t fancy sitting through a 20 minute episode of anime or 45 minute episode of J-drama. To combat this you can create your own Japanese TV station that will show small 3-5 minute clips that will keep your attention without drawing you in too much or boring you to death.

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