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Category Archives: Japanese
Wheat Free Dorayaki
We’re studying Japan this week and for a snack I found a recipe here that easily converted to wheat free. Mind you, I’ve never had the wheat version but found this very yummy and satisfying. For the filling I followed the advise in the comment and only used 1 1/2 cups sugar. I think you [...]
Posted in Allergies, History, Homeschooling, Japanese, Recipes, wheat free
Latest Haul
Here’s a quick pick of the latest bookmooch books… from Japan! Sam and I are working on reading and translating but it is really slow going. Most of the time we’re using jisho.org. Though that at times led to some interesting words. O_o At one point we dug up a Japanese children’s song because we [...]
Posted in Homeschooling, Japanese
A Brief Update
One of the things that has kept us so busy lately is the upcoming parade for the True False Film Festival. Sam has been busy making a huge parade puppet with his Puppet Pals friends. We’re down to the wire. The parade is this Friday. I hear there will be a couple dozen of these [...]
Learning Japanese
I have decided (again) to really make this a priority for me personally. If I’m going to teach my son to speak in Japanese, I need to learn it first… or rather teach him as I learn it. Really learn it. Waiting for him to learn it is not going to happen. I could go [...]
Posted in Homeschooling, Japanese
Days of the Week & Basic Hiragana
Today Sam and I started working on days of the week in Japanese. We even made sound file (WMA) of the English days of the week song using the Japanese words. It takes the equivalent of 2 verses to get all the syllables in but it works… kinda. I’m desperately searching for ways to jump [...]
Posted in Games, Homeschooling, Japanese
Oh no!
I was doing good. Going to bed on time. Then… I signed up for the free week trail at Jpod101 tonight. It went something like this… I’ll just download the newbie pdfs for us to use. Whoops! You only get to download 10 in the trial (musta missed that stipulation somewhere). Farg! I downloaded the [...]
Posted in Homeschooling, Japanese
Bunraku Puppetry
Friday we went to a presentation on this amazing Japanese puppetry form held at Mizzou. Oh. Freaking. Wow. The “puppeteers” were from Japan and part of the Imada Puppet Troup. Really, really amazing to watch them manipulate these puppets. It took 3 puppeteers per puppet! Some of their puppets are 100+ years old! After the [...]
Posted in Homeschooling, Japanese
Japanese Festival
The Japanese Festival in STL yesterday was so much fun. Sam said the best part was speaking Japanese and being understood! We received some pleasantly surprised looks from our first attempts. Very encouraging. Wouldn’t it be cool if next year we went and spoke nothing but Japanese while there. Sam thought so. The beginning of [...]
Posted in Homeschooling, Japanese, Life
Japanese Podcasts
On a whim, I searched the iTunes store for Japanese podcasts. (from within the iTunes application) I found lots; many of which are free! (my favorite price) The best so far (really wish I’d found these guys sooner) is JapanesePod101.com podcast. Their premium yearly price a lot less than Rosetta Stone. If their free podcasts [...]
Posted in Homeschooling, Japanese