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    Spoken Japanese Verbatim Text: Transcript of a TV Interview with ANNO Hideaki

    May 10, 2007
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    As many of you know, it’s one’s duty as a geek to love Neon Genesis Evangelion. Recently, I was rewatching the show, and then reading about in on Wikipedia. Anyway, there’s a link there to the text of a 2004-ish TV interview with the creator/director, ANNO Hideaki (庵野秀明). It’s a good example of very natural, semi-formal spoken Japanese. In...

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    Japanese Text-to-Speech Engine

    May 9, 2007
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    So I was sniffing around Google, looking for something interesting to read, and came across this article at a place called ネットマニア(NetMania). It would appear that Pentax are in the process of developing a very good, natural sounding text-to-speech engine. And here I thought all they did was make cameras — as it turns out, they may be planning...

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    Monita’s Digital Dictionary: More Fun and Learning

    April 30, 2007
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    Fun and learning are a great combination. You get to enjoy yourself now, and take some knowledge with you into the future. With that in mind, here’s another website recommendation. As part of the Yomiuri Shimbun Online Geek Section, there’s a fun column called “Monita’s Digital Dictionary“, it isn’t really a dictionary at all, but a place where a dog...

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    Japanese Websites

    April 24, 2007
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    You know, it’s fine someone telling you “hey, read websites in Japanese”, but then…what websites are cool to go to? What websites indeed. Well, here’s one for starters:やわらか戦車(せん・しゃ), the continuing story of a tank who’s mainly good at…retreating. Somehow, it’s just so…可愛いーーーー(cute). Anyway, enjoy. You like this AJATT shizzle? Yeah? Share it, playa! Tweet

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    Kanji Reading Aids

    April 24, 2007
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    So, you want to read real Japanese websites? You know basic grammar, you know what words are doing, but you don’t yet know that many kanji readings? Have no fear, two tools can come to your rescue. The first, and my favorite, is Hiragane Megane (hiragana.jp). Go there, copy and paste the URL (of the website you want to...

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