Insightful, Hopeful

As I have posted in my blog, I am trying to re-learn Nihonggo. I have been listening to the Primsleur cds I bought in the past. Good thing I found notes that go with the CDs on the internet on the MP3 Japan site. This site also contains Nihonggo lessons from NHK radio which can be downloaded in mp3 format.
I also helped my mom in cleaning our common room and I found a notebook I have misplaced. This contains URLs on sites I found interesting. I wrote in this notebook since my college days, when I was just discovering the internet. I did not know the bookmark function of IE back then hehe. But it did prove helpful as it served as a hard copy of my bookmarks.
I will be posting some interesting websites I have visited through the years. But first I will post some links about Nihonggo especially resources for the wannabe Nihonggo speakers or anime fans like me who just want to learn Nihonggo for fun. Hope the links help.

Learning Japanese forum at JapanToday.com
Japanese Vocabulary
Easy Japanese Yasashii Nihongo
Chiron's Survival Japanese Course
Japanese reference links


In line with learning languages, these are some site where you can buy products to learn a language of your choice:
World Language
A to Z Languages
Penton Overseas, Inc
Tagalog Learners Home

Incidentally, just recently, one of my favorite opinion columnist from the Philippine Daily Inquirer, Michael Tan, wrote about how learning different languages can help a nation be globally competent. The title of the piece is Multilingual. Though his opinion might not be totally the same as mine, especially regarding Nihonggo, I do believe that people can all learn much by learning a language of another race because it tells much about their culture.

At work, I also encountered working with languages through the CultureInfo class included in the Microsoft .NET Framework. One could get the different names of languages, date formats and number formats used in different countries. I guess this makes Microsoft .NET truly innovative. Sorry to the non-techie readers, I can't explain this further hehe

Last but not the least, a site which I found very interesting with rich resources on anything about language. The site is called Unilang.

Enjoy. Hanggang sa muli (Til next time)