japan foundation – Ramblings of DarkMirage http://2pwn.tk/websites/www.darkmirage.com Anime, Games, J-Pop and Whatever Else Mon, 09 May 2011 04:56:35 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.7.2 Erin’s Challenge! I can speak Japanese http://2pwn.tk/websites/www.darkmirage.com/2011/05/09/erins-challenge-i-can-speak-japanese/ http://2pwn.tk/websites/www.darkmirage.com/2011/05/09/erins-challenge-i-can-speak-japanese/#comments Mon, 09 May 2011 04:56:35 +0000 http://2pwn.tk/websites/www.darkmirage.com/?p=1527 Continue reading ]]> Erin's Challenge

I am months late to the game, but I found this interesting Japanese-learning website set up by the Japan Foundation called Erin’s Challenge! I can speak Japanese. It has a few dozen short skits with copyable soft-subs in Japanese, kana, romaji and English and a bunch of Flash learning apps. The corny acting is so amusing. The website also comes in Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese and Korean.

The Flash video player it uses to do soft-sub and line-by-line playback makes me wonder if a similar interface might be helpful for anime/drama playback. Everything is soft-subbed these days; maybe it’s time we do something with it.

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