Étiquette : japanese studies

nieatriestine:

ARASHI’S MASSIVE POPULARITY IN JAPAN:

  1. 2,000 boxes of special chocolates to promote Matsumoto’s Shitsuren Chocolatier drama got sold out in less than 5 MINUTES.
  2. The lip-balm used by Aiba during Baba Arashi segment in VS Arashi 2014 New Year SP suddenly became no.1 on the sales ranking after the episode was aired.
  3. Sakurai’s birthday present for Aiba, a blanket that costs 39,900 yen, got sold out everywhere after it was mentioned on TV last year.
  4. Sakurai’s Kazoku Game drama promotional campaign, “Call this number and Yoshimoto Kouya will answer you”, was cancelled the next day after it’s launched because the number was spammed by too many people.
  5. A newspaper reported that Arashi Live Tour Love last year helped to raise the domestic flights rate by 8.4%.
  6. The 5 trees that represented Arashi in JAL CM last year attracted so many people that the land of Hokkaido where the trees located became a tourists destination. The farmers later had to plant another tree because some ill-mannered fans went to invade the land without permission and stole the tree branches.
  7. With Sakurai Sho as their endorser, JINS! claimed that their annual sales rise by 60%.
  8. 4 shrines all over Japan that COINCIDENTALLY named after the members become so popular as Arashi fans think they’ll get Arashi concert tickets if they pray there. 
  9. Ninomiya starring movie “Platina Data” created its own record as the movie that had been mentioned most number of times on twitter in 24 hours last year.
  10. Publishing companies claimed that Arashi helped  their magazine sales to boost a lot that whenever they are on the cover, most of the magazines have to be reprinted.

Found these on twitter. I think there’s more.

axel-speaks:

The best thing about studying languages is when you’re listening to a song or watching a show in the language you’re learning and then suddenly there’s this line and you know what it meant without reading the subs or the translations and you just pause and have a mental freak out and you’re like FUCK FUCK I UNDERSTOOD THAT FUCK SOMEHOW MY LIFE SUDDENLY GAINED MEANING I AM BORN ANEW AND WILL LIVE FOREVERMORE I AM ETERNAL

japanese-revision:

japanese-revision:

Textbooks:

Online and Phone Dictionaries:

For kanji.

Online reading:

Manga.


Improving your speaking:


Listening:


Reading & Writing practice:


News:


Podcasts and radio:

Radio dramas

YouTube:

Japanese sign language.


TV:

Tumblr:

Those who are studying in Japan

2012 – 2013 exchange students

Working as part of the JET Programme

Blogging:


Learning websites:


Other resources:

I’ve added even more to the list since I first posted this and am continuing to add new things to it. So, I thought I’d re-post it. As always, if anyone has anything they would like to add, let me know!

nisha-no-nihongo:

Learn Kanji by radicals instead of by strokes

Kanji is made up of parts called radicals. If you learn by strokes you will sometimes have over 15 strokes. But if you learn the radicals, kanji becomes much more simple. Radicals are like building blocks and you only need 2-4 to put together a kanji. But it is still important to know how to write kanji in proper stroke order.

Check out another radical cheat sheet by TextFugu