Japanese on your mobile phone
Posted on February 12th, 2007 by admin
(Written by: TangoTown, Originally posted on adventurasia.freezope.org around 2003~2004)
TangoTown!!
Learn Japanese using your mobile phone (keitai). Dictionaries, phrasebooks, kanji searching and lessons like flashcards, quiz games and daily lessons emailed to your phone.. plus a heap more…
Just enter http://tangotown.jp
into your Japanese keitai and you can see for yourself. Suitable for DoCoMo, (i-mode), Vodafone (Vodafone Live!) and EZWeb phones.
Filed under: Japan, Technology
(Comment by Baracuda)
Hi, Tangotown like site will not provide free service. Also their services are not better than even Japanese made handheld dictionaries. I just bought present Seiko J-E E-J electronic dictionary to my friend. However adventurasia, give us basic Hiragana and Katakana alphabet to for free. Plus it is very nicely design. I am proud that some “GAIJIN” will do their best to provide such a beautiful learning tool. I check internet since 1994 and only one quicktime movie base hiragana tools was available. But this flash version is much better and easy to learn. Design to teach you 5 letter per day or per week. Take your time when you study. It is nicely design and thanks to adventurasia for providing such a perfect service. baracudaJP AWI Academy
Hi BaracudaJP, Thanks for your comments, and I’m glad that you like the ‘Hiragana / Katakana Flash animations’. It was created by my friend at NTMS Tokyo.
Anyways, I’ve been wanting to create an ‘online Japanese’ learning Web site with integrated CD-ROM (for authentic audio, video, and graphics) + learning tracking for quite some time now. I’ve now gotten a better idea of, umm, how to put together this project, and have found a good platform to work with, but it’s mainly a time problem. The course will be aimed at people who are at about Japanese Proficiency Level 3 and wish to take the Level 2 exam.
Why this level? Well, mainly because I haven’t really seen that much material for this level (eg. CD-ROM products or Web sites) and it’s the level I’m trying to achieve. hehe. So it’s killing several birds with one stone — studying Japanese / further my skills in multimedia type production / and provide a service to people who are interested in studying Japanese.
I’ll be sure to make an announcement on my site as various phases of the project are done. But, I’m currently swamped with my regular job now, and perhaps in December 2003 I can start more seriously on this site.
I’m curious to know whether other people are interested in this sort of site, and whether you’re interested in contributing in some way. Obviously, if I’m the sole author, then the learning style will be the way I learn things, which may not make much sense to others.
(Comment by GaijinBart)
I agree with baracudaJP. Why should we pay money that the langugae we want to learn only for in Japan. I dont want to mention the discrimination that exist. If you are gaijin you know what I’m saying. I am looking for similar animation at least to learn first 100 kanji. I check many site but only this site is given real free learning toll for japanese language. I wish owner of this site can give us another animation like kana and let us to know free for first 100 Kanji. I am sure your site must be very popular outside Japan. I learn this site from my friend. He is currently working in USA and soon he will be join with other gaijin in Japan. You dont have the jp extension in your site but from contents seems it is somwhere in asia. Good luck to you. It is very useful site I ever see about japan. Other bunch of gaijin site just design to ditch new gaijin who enter in to japan. Thank you.