Category: Japanese

Chapter 2: How to Say Testicular Cancer in Japanese »

I announced in the inaugural Project Mayhem post that I would be studying Fight Club, in Japanese, in order to work on my embarrassingly insufficient Japanese listening skills. Japanese Fight Club is pretty difficult for my level. I’d estimate that 50% of the vocabulary that I ran into in the first 3 scenes was unfamiliar. [...]

A Mnemonic Device To Remember Japanese Dictionary Order »

The Japanese dictionary order is a, ka, sa, ta, na, ha, ma, ya, ra, wa, n. I’ve been studying Japanese for a long time, but it wasn’t until recently that I learned the above dictionary order for the Japanese syllabary. The main reason for this is that I mostly use an electronic dictionary to look [...]

Project Mayhem – Learning a Foreign Language Through Movies »

A few posts ago I mentioned that I had a new project to target my deficient Japanese listening comprehension skills. I stated that I was going to watch one of my favorite movies one scene at a time, over and over again, in dubbed Japanese. I ended the post with the first line of the [...]