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Chapter 4 - Swedish Furniture and Katakana Loanwords | babelhut.com

By tummai 416 days ago from http://babelhut.com

A look at Chapter 4 of the Japanese version of the Fight Club DVD.

Topics include:

Swedish furniture.
Katakana loanwords are hard to hear.
Demanding medicine from your doctor in Japanese.

Jack orders some Swedish furniture from his IKEA catalogue, which is a really difficuly scene due to all the loan words and technical furniture

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The Super Secret Japanese Katakana Key | nihonhacks.com

By tummai 346 days ago from http://nihonhacks.com

Sometimes we want to write a foreign loan word in Japanese. We type it in like normal, but when we hit the space bar, the Japanese Input system doesn't recognize our intention and gives us a bunch of random kanji (Chinese characters). Luckily, there is an easy hotkey to force the Japanese Input system to give us ka

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Cherry Blossom Season 2008 | Neil Duckett

By fz22gq 325 days ago from http://neilduckett.com

If all things go according to plan we should have Cherry Blossom’s in Tokyo the last week of March and first week of April.

For more detailed information on this years Cherry Blossom Forecast you can go here or here, both are in Japanese though so you may need to just do what i’ll do and wait to see it with your own eyes.
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Is Katakana English Unnecessary?

By j2fi 301 days ago from http://www.j2fi.net

There has been talk about the necessity of the katakana character set, and the obtusely irregular usage of Katakana English, a variation of English that often leaves native speakers of the language scratching their head in confusion.

One particular Japanese English language specialist thinks that the problem exists in the sc