“Can I Try This On?”
If you currently live in Japan, or ever plan to visit, you will probably want to do some clothes shopping.
Here’s a great phrase you can use when you want to try on clothes:
Rocket Japanese Review
You want to be able to speak Japanese. You even want to be able to read and write Japanese… But, when push comes to shove, your Japanese studies always take a back seat to the billions of other things going on in your life. The end result? You get frustrated with your lack of progress and risk giving up.
Rocket Japanese promises to remove the frustration and get you speaking Japanese right away.
Check out Rocket Japanese here.
Is it even possible to pick up Japanese as rapidly as Rocket Japanese claims? I decided to sign up for Rocket Japanese and find out.
Everyone learns differently. Some people learn best when they practice; some learn best when they read text; others when they listen and then others are visual learners. I’m happy to report that Rocket Japanese has all these bases covered.
Included in Rocket Japanese is a full audio course, a three volume grammar course, visual and audio learning games and an interactive forum. You can choose to run these from the internet or download them to your PC.
When I first logged in, I was a little overwhelmed with all of the options available, but it doesn’t take long to find your way around (things progress more quickly if you read the “READ ME FIRST” section, but I’m a master at skipping over those!).
My findings:
What you will learn
- Daily conversation skills
- Reading and writing hiragana
- Japanese cultural details
Positives
- Will take a complete beginner to a conversational level in Japanese
- The course is fun
- The course is designed for busy people, so you can do small chunks at a time (5-10 minute sessions can be enough)
- The entire course can be completed from your home PC
- No waiting time, get started immediately
- Any questions you ask get answered fast in the forum
- Much of Rocket Japanese is game based and therefore simple and fun to use
- Ability to expand Vocab learning game
Negatives
- In the audio course it would be good to have two native speakers. Currently there is one native speaker and one non-native speaker.
Cost
- The cost of Rocket Japanese is $97 for the downloadable version. This might seem like a lot of money, but in reality the forum membership on it’s own is worth this much.
Who is this for?
- People who are not conversational now, but want to be in the shortest time possible
- Complete beginners
- People with some passive Japanese knowledge
Where do I get it?
Download Rocket Japanese here.
Every year, every day…
The words in Japanese to describe time periods (like days, weeks, etc.) are as follows:
Day nichi
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Communicaid
Communicaid specialize in Japanese language courses. They have training centers in London, Paris, Frankfurt, New York and a host of partner language centers worldwide. If you are considering formalized Japanese language training then you might like to check out Communicaid.
Have you ever done this?
There is a great expression in Japanese that allows us to ask if someone has ever done something before. The expression is so flexible that we can use it to if they have ever done, ever seen, ever drunk, ever tasted, ever travelled, etc.
Goal Setting For Learning Japanese
Today’s video talks about goal setting. Even though this video is not directly related to learning Japanese, there is an important message in the video.
Telling The Time In Japanese
Telling the time in Japanese is not too difficult, there are some simple rules to follow.
In this lesson we will learn how to tell the time and learn how to talk about how long something will take. So, first thing’s first, let’s look at how to tell the time in Japanese.
List Of Japanese Verbs — Part One
This is part one in an on-going list of Japanese verbs that I will publish on this site. I will create more lists of Japanese verbs in the future. There is no grading about most commonly or least commonly used, I will just add them as I think of them.
So, without further ado, here they are: