5 Temmuz 2012 Perşembe

Hiragana Worksheet finally here!

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This is a continuation of the previous post, How to write in Japanese - With the help of a Hiragana Table.

After trying to write out the Hiragana characters myself, I realise the untidiness of scribbling the characters across a blank paper. Therefore I've came out with the 'Hiragana Worksheet'!

Think you've got the best way of practicing Hiragana? Wait till you check my Hiragana Worksheet out.

Cool Features and Benefits:
  1. Each Hiragana character (showing it's correct stroke order) is included in the left-most square for quick and easy reference!
  2. Square boxes are drawn up to keep your writing practice neat
  3. Square boxes to help you keep track on the number of characters you've written
  4. Print as many copies as you want to practice! There's no limit.
Sample Picture of the worksheet:


















Lastly, if you've found this useful, share it with your friends. Let them know how easy it is to practice Hiragana.

Cheers!

How to Write Numbers 11 to 20 in Japanese

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I saw someone ask this question on WikiAns and decided to contribute and also create a blogpost about it as well.

Knowing how to write and say the numbers 11-20 in Japanese is easy once you see the pattern. Once you "get" this, I guarantee you'll find it easy to write numbers in Japanese from now on.


So what's the Pattern?

There's a general relationship between the way you write the numbers 11-20 in English and how you write it in Japanese characters. Look at numbers mathematically and treat each number as adding the 'tens-number' with the 'ones-number'. [Note the slight difference in the number 20.]

For example:
[number] = [what it means mathematically] = [romaji] = [kanji] = [hiragana]

[11] = [10+1] = [juu ichi] = [å��一] = [ã�˜ã‚…ã�„ã�¡]
[12] = [10+2] = [juu ni] = [å��二] = [ã�˜ã‚…ã�†ã�«]
[13] = [10+3] = [juu san] = [å��三] = [ã�˜ã‚…ã�†ã�•ã‚“]
[14] = [10+4] = [juu yon] = [å��å››] = [ã�˜ã‚…ã�†ã‚ˆã‚“]
[15] = [10+5] = [juu go] = [å��五] = [ã�˜ã‚…ã�†ã�”]
[16] = [10+6] = [juu roku] = [�六] = [�ゅ���]
[17] = [10+7] = [juu nana] or [juu shichi] = [å��七] = [ã�˜ã‚…ã�ªã�ª] or [ã�˜ã‚…ã�†ã�—ã�¡]
[18] = [10+8] = [juu hachi] = [å��å…«] = [ã�˜ã‚…ã�†ã�¯ã�¡]
[19] = [10+9] = [juu kyuu] = [å��ä¹�] = [ã�˜ã‚…ã�†ã��ã‚…ã�†]
*[20] = [2x10] = [ni juu] =  [二å��] = [ã�«ã�˜ã‚…ã�†]

Do you see the pattern yet?
Learning how to write numbers in Japanese and how to say numbers in Japanese is closely related. Take the time to really understand this. You'll be glad you did. :)

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Creating a Bonus for our Affiliate product - Rocket Japanese

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We've been wracking our brains to come up with a *BONUS* that we can create or put together for the people who are interested in purchasing Rocket Japanese through us.

We know that it's got to be useful, relevant and most of all, extremely attractive to the people who are interested in learning how to speak and write in Japanese.

Hopefully, this bonus will also be a complement to what's already being offered in the already excellent Rocket Japanese program.

Most importantly, it has to be simple and straightforward. There's already a multitude of resources all over the Internet. There's no use overwhelming and confusing our visitors. It's got to be specifically targeted to the needs of our target customers.

So here's a bunch of ideas we've come up with so far:
  1. A collection of popular Japanese music (with lyrics + romaji) / popular English music translated into Japanese - to help people learn Japanese in a much more relaxed, fun and entertaining manner. It's pretty impressive for a beginner to be able to sing a Japanese song, don't you think? :)
  2. Simple and innovative games to help you learn Japanese in a FUN environment. (Yes, to me, it's really ALL about having fun... because that's the best motivation to keep going. Otherwise, I just quickly lose interest.)
  3. A "secret bonus X" that I'm not prepared to reveal to you here yet because this is a resource that I keep to myself and usually only share with close friends.
What do you think? Do these bonuses sound attractive? Are there any other items that you would like to see on this list? If you have a good suggestion(s), we'll send you the bonus when it's done for free to show our appreciation. :)

Leave your comments! Arigatou Gozaimasu! �り��� �����!

Japanese Dictionary

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Japanese can be quite challenging to some. In view of that, HowToWriteInJapanese.blogspot.com has provided you guys with several posts on basic Japanese writings like I love you, Merry Christmas and much more. To help you with that we've found some useful tools you can use to help you to learn Japanese.



This is a dictionary from Amazon. I picked this because of the reviews. Most of it are positive ones though, expectedly, there're some that are bad. Click on the link to read more about it and look through the reviews to see if it suits you.



Here are some of reviews by the customers:
  • Best in the class!,
April 19, 2000 By A Customer
This review is from: Random House Japanese-English English-Japanese Dictionary (Mass Market Paperback) Living in Tokyo, it`s been essential for me to have an effective translation dictionary. This one has filled the bill. True, it isn`t necessarially the best choice for beginners, but as you begin to explore Japanese more, this book will keep up with you. In my Japanese language class, this dictionary has pulled through for us when other students` dictionaries could not. The best feature is the easy-to-read Romaji (English spellings) that permit you to sound out the words without having to read Japanese. However, the Japanese is included also, meaning I`ll be able to continue learning with this book for quite some time.
  • Excellent for Beginning Japanese Language,
March 19, 2003
By Christopher Fung (San Francisco, CA United States) - See all my reviews
As a Japanese language student, I found this dictionary to be a very useful tool in the beginning stages of learning Japanese. Most likely, the beginning student will learn to associate Japanese phrases with their respective Romanizations instead of thinking in Japanese script. For this reason, this dictionary is a good tool to help transition students from thinking in romanji to the respective Japanese scripts (hiragana, katakana and kanji). I have found this dictionary quite useful when I studied the Japanese language during my first year in high school. However, after I began associating Japanese phrases and words with hiragana, I began using a dictionary that allowed me to search words in the hiragana script (a,i,u,e,o,ka,ki,ku...ra,wa,wo). It was difficult to go back to this Romanized dictionary.
As this dictionary is not exclusively Japanese to English or English to Japanese, this dictionary compromises its comprehensiveness. I have found that this dictionary doesn't include many more advanced or classical Japanese words and phrases that may be found in Japanese newspapers or official documents.
Yet, if you are a beginning Japanese student without any experience with Japanese script, this is a good start. However, if you are student who has more experience with the script, a better recommendation might be Kodansha's Furigana Japanese-English Dictionary or Kodansha's Furigana English-Japanese Dictionary.

Welcome to the *Launch of HowToWriteInJapanese.Blogspot.com!

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Youkoso (よ���) Welcome!

It's our big launch for HowToWriteInJapanese.Blogspot.com today. We're really happy and excited because we've been working hard to put together relevant & useful content for our visitors.

So far, we've created some awesome article posts on
  • The Top 10 Things People are looking to write in Japanese
  • How to write Merry Christmas in Japanese (in good time too since jolly xmas is just around the corner ^_^)
  • How to write Your Name in Japanese (I'm sure some of you will be interested in this.. I don't blame you. I checked mine out already and it's REICHERU = レイãƒ�ェル)
  • How to Write in Japanese Hiragana - with the help of a hiragana table
  • and much, much more. 
You've got to surf through the blog to find out more of course...

We've also created our very own Learn Japanese Hiragana Writing Workbook - hiragana writing lessons made easy for beginners. (Mainly because it's the resource we wished we had when we started out learning japanese.)

> Do put your name and email in the right-most sidebar area and we'll send a copy of that to you!

And *drumroll* the latest and sparkliest new addition to our HowToWriteInJapanese.Blogspot.com family:

-->Our very 1st YouTube video on 'How to write in Japanese Hiragana - 5 Easy steps to learn the 46 basic characters of Hiragana'!<--
Watch it here now @ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nAOrx7AfV4

We'll be coming up with more exciting articles, latest news, videos, pictures and much, much more. So please remember to subscribe to our RSS Feed on the top-right-hand-corner of the site. Thanks for stopping by! Do take your time and have a look around! ^_^

27 Haziran 2012 Çarşamba

Taking HDR photo with iPhone

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Pano< price: $2.99 (¥350)developer: Debacle SoftwareiTunesSunset sight from EnoshimaHow do your think if HDR images are able to be made on iPhone with using panoramic photo app “Pano”? It's true. Left Image is the one of my HDR works made in iPhone.Photographer's latest expression method HDR (High Dynamic Ranged Image) is processed from some piece of photos taken in different exposure. PhotoMatix and Photoshop or other software working on Mac /PC build REAL dynamic ranged image inside and compress it into normal range with tone mapping. I like to make HDR with using these software. Peace of photos for HDR should be taken by tripod fixed exposure adjustable cameras. Well processed HDR remind impression of landscape which photographer saw inside his mind.Taking photos for HDR is so trouble not to be able to take everyday for us because tripod and cameras are heavy to bring everyday and taking process is not so quick to make your wife to wait.But now, we can get the camera processing "HDR" inside with only one shooting sequence necessary. The camera name is panoramic app “Pano” and following is the way of making HDR photo on iPhone.I've met great sunset today. In sunset composition, always buildings are too dark if I took sky like as following left image, and If I make building to center, sky will be taken white as right one.Because I wanted to express both of these, I launched Pano and start sequense. Taking pieces divided into different exposure in each sequence carefully. I sat 1st horizon to bottom border where will be blended with next cut. 2nd shot's composition was automatically sat as sky is placed upper border. And took 3rd with my back-lighted hand which normally photo can't expose color.After Processed panoramic photo keeps each exposure and blended naturally.Processed photo tone was ajusted to be normalized. I rotated and touched tone up with using Photogene. If took work was my favorite work, iPhoto 09's is waiting at home.These are the way of make HDR on iPhone. Of course this method can't compress tones from different exposed cuts manually and not suites complex composition, in addition, resolution of Pano processing is not so large. I don't have idea which Pano handle real range inside. Some person will say it's not HDR. Yes I think so in narrow meaning. I often say this as "pseudo HDR". But the fact is, if you have iPhone, you can take picture of sky and ground in one picture with impressive color. without tripod and heavy camera.Pano and iPhone gave us HDR camera which is able to take "HDR" anytime. Following images are my pseudo HDR shots. Enjoy!Aso panoramaKumamoto panoramaSunset on Pacific oceanSunset at ShinjukuWinter skyTokyo TombSunset at ShinjukuSunset at Aso

Quiet style font viewer Cédille

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Cédilleprice: FREE!size: 0.2MBdeveloper: KanotomoiTunesI've dreamed what I feel well if I handle scale able font book on my hand. Cédille is simple font viewer shows in iPhone/iPod touch for it.Sometime when I'm planning website or presentation style, I launch this simple font viewer on my palm and place on drafting paper in order to feel letters in my physical. Simple and well designed interface of Cédille does not interrupt my plan. And iPhone's clear bright screen show me letters like printed.Cédille shows font collection list on iPhone/iPod touch at start up. Tapping font name shows letter samples. Sample viewing style is able to selected from Repertory or Sample. Sample is same with Font Book.app on Mac OS X. Japanese font shows a part of poem "The Square of Polano" by Kenji Miyazawa. Repertory view shows all sample shape included font. Blue line on repertory view are baselines.In sample view, bottom slider changes scale of font size. This feature helps me at web or graphic design in point which how letters are seen in particular size.When I launch Cédille at first time, I've been surprised that Mobile Safari shows website well, but iPhone/iPod touch does not contain so many fonts. It means I've ignored that Apple's work to take carefully in selecting fonts. Cédille opens me this fact and gave me the result of Apples in clearly anytime.This is 2nd time to reviewing developer kanotomo's work. At last time, I've reviewed his modern simple designed calender "Quick Calender" in order to know Japanese Holidays. I like his excellent simple, quiet and clear graphic style and waiting next work.