tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1425985850280051605.post8013529634930817960..comments2023-08-09T14:03:35.138+09:00Comments on Keith's Voice on Extreme Language Learning: 手話入門Keithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02533265523359409077noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1425985850280051605.post-53082200468026109572008-07-02T04:43:00.000+09:002008-07-02T04:43:00.000+09:00Hi Keith,Thanks a lot for the feedback. Thats inte...Hi Keith,<BR/>Thanks a lot for the feedback. Thats interesting about the mistakes. I will ask Kei about these. She is native Japanese/English so she should be pretty good, but I suppose everyone can make mistakes. Maybe the way she writes is more informal than the standard?<BR/>About the Mac version, I would like to do it and it is definitely on my agenda but the problem is that I don't have a Mac. I think I would need a lot of access to one in order to develop and test a Mac version. A lot of people have asked about this so I will look into it.<BR/>Cheers,<BR/>JimAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1425985850280051605.post-12913161390426732712008-06-27T14:31:00.000+09:002008-06-27T14:31:00.000+09:00Bryan, that sounds like a first. There certainly a...Bryan, that sounds like a first. There certainly are English speakers or ASL speakers who would like to learn Japanese Sign Language.<BR/><BR/>I wish I could give some input before the format is finalized. For one thing, I hope they would include the Japanese words that each sign corresponds to, along with furigana for the Kanji. I'm just afraid they will leave that information out, but I believe most users of their product would want it since they would most likely also be Japanese language students as well.Keithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02533265523359409077noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1425985850280051605.post-9817778395041087952008-06-25T10:22:00.000+09:002008-06-25T10:22:00.000+09:00Interesting. I don't know anything about shuwa but...Interesting. I don't know anything about <I>shuwa</I> but I have a friend over here in Shizuoka-ken who received a grant to cover the production of a English-to-shuwa video dictionary on DVD-ROM, with demonstrations of each word done by students of the local hearing-impaired school. Should be interesting when she is done.Bryanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09219495498382955840noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1425985850280051605.post-8677491111887274992008-06-21T09:29:00.000+09:002008-06-21T09:29:00.000+09:00Jim, it looks like a good app. When will the Mac v...Jim, it looks like a good app. When will the Mac version be out? ;)<BR/><BR/>About the Japanese project, the punctuation characters are incorrect. The comma in Japanese is not ゝ<BR/>That characters means that the previous hiragana should be repeated.<BR/>The correct comma is 、<BR/><BR/>And the period in Japanese is not at the top but instead at the bottom.<BR/>Not ゜but 。<BR/><BR/>And finally, hiragana and katakana should be mixed. But I suppose it could be ok to write all in hiragana for beginners. <BR/><BR/>So this is the way the second sentence in the screen shot should be properly written:<BR/>こんにちはケイさん。ぼくのなまえはアルバートです。ぼくはイギリスじんです。<BR/><BR/>Yes, in a sentence like that, I would put Kei's name in katakana so that it stands out. <BR/><BR/>Here is the same sentence with Kanji, hiragana, and katakana.<BR/>こんにちは、ケイさん。ぼくの名前はアルバートです。ぼくはイギリス人です。<BR/><BR/>But seriously, when will the Mac version be out? :-)Keithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02533265523359409077noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1425985850280051605.post-18239265457042950482008-06-21T03:54:00.000+09:002008-06-21T03:54:00.000+09:00Hi Keith,So, you like James Bond then ;-)I am not ...Hi Keith,<BR/>So, you like James Bond then ;-)<BR/>I am not learning Japanese but I am passionate about languages. I speak French, Catalan and a bit of German.<BR/>Anyway, I thought you might be interested in my Free website/application.<BR/>www.mylanguagenotebook.com<BR/>The site has an app to download which is basically a language learning notebook (but with audio too). But you can load projects into the notebook.<BR/>The projects are available on the site for download and anyone can make their own projects in the app and upload them.<BR/>There are already some decent Japnese projects on the site in Katakana and Hiragana.<BR/>Anyway, I hope you like it.<BR/>All the best,<BR/>Jim MorrisonAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com