Thursday, June 21, 2012

Wednesday, June 13, 2012

History of Japan

PBS is famous for its excellent documentaries.
I mostly like their Empires series, about forgotten empires in history.
Their "Japan, Memoirs of a Secret Empire" has been available on youtube for a while.
If you're interested in the history of Japan, especially the time when the country was completely isolated, you may find it worthwhile to check it out.

The Way of the Samurai  



The Will of the Shogun  


The Return of the Barbarians  

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Monday, June 4, 2012

Learning Japanese: Interesting Video Logs (2) Japanesepod101.com

JapanesePod101.com brings several series of short videoclips on basic and intermediate Japanese.  
These clips are available on YouTube, and as they are grouped together by the same topic, you can view them one-by-one like the chapters of a book.

JapanesePod101.com also offers a paying service for students of Japanese.  I have no experience in this myself, but if you feel the free clips are good for you, it may be worthwhile to check it out further.

And you can learn other stuff as well  :)