Language

• Is Japanese difficult to learn? A programmer's perspective
  
  When I mention that I’m learning Japanese, many people ask something along the lines of “isn’t it a difficult language to learn? [ Read more... ]
• Japanese characters in Ubuntu PDFs
  
  I’d just been looking for some Japanese tutorial PDFs, and there are some really good ones. [ Read more... ]
• Japanese answerphone message
  
  This is just a simple, and generic, answerphone message. I thought it might be fun to confuse potential cold callers with it. [ Read more... ]
• Typing Japanese characters with Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic)
  
  There are quite a few tutorials on getting hiragana characters on Ubuntu, but many of them seem rather complicated, and very few seem to mention Karmic at the time of writing (even though it’s been stable for a good few months now). [ Read more... ]
• Japanese Greetings
  
  Here are a few standard hello and goodbye phrases. Some of them are quite casual in use, although I’ve tried to point out where that is the case. [ Read more... ]
• Interjections and incidental words
  
  The following are a list of words, usually at the start of a sentence, that are used as incidental words or interjections to start expressing something. [ Read more... ]
• Telling similar hiragana and katakana apart
  
  There are a few katakana and hiragana that are quite similar, and are easily mistaken for one another. [ Read more... ]