So, as previously mentioned in this space, Kate and I will be spending a few weeks in Japan in August\/ September. Out of a combination of politeness and self-interest, it would be good if we knew at least a smattering of Japanese before going there. Back in ’98, I did the book-and-tape thing, and learned at least phrasebook Japanese (“Eigo ga hanashimasu ka?”), but I remember very little of that, and Kate doesn’t know any.<\/p>\n
We’ve heard good things about the Rosetta Stone software packages<\/a>, but those are really expensive. The goal here isn’t to be able to watch anime without subtitles, it’s just to avoid embarassment in a three-week vacation. They’ve got an online subscription service<\/a> for less money, which is a bit mroe reasonable, but I’m curious what the Internet has to say.<\/p>\n So, does anybody have any suggestions regarding the best way to pick up a little bit of Japanese at a level that will be useful in getting around on vacation? The real ideal thing would probably be to take a class from a local college or community college, but we’re doing a whole bunch of other travelling this summer as well, so that really doesn’t work with our schedules.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" So, as previously mentioned in this space, Kate and I will be spending a few weeks in Japan in August\/ September. Out of a combination of politeness and self-interest, it would be good if we knew at least a smattering of Japanese before going there. Back in ’98, I did the book-and-tape thing, and learned… Continue reading Learn. Japanese. Fast?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}