Click here for his webpage with list of vocabulary, etc.
Japanese News
Gimmeaflakeman Japanese News Lessons
Here is a link to the page of YouTuber Gimmeaflakeman’s Japanese news language lessons. Definitely check it out. ๐
Gimmeaflakeman Japanese News Lesson – With Vocabulary
Here is another Japanese news lesson from YouTuber Gimmeflakeman to check out.
http://www.gimmeabreakman.com/2014/10/math-teacher-attacks-drunk-h-s-girl-vocabulary/
Kodomo News Weekly
Here is a neat site to practice reading Japanese. The Yomiuri Shinbun has a “Kodomo news weekly” (KODOMOใใฅใผในใฆใคใผใฏใซ) article that comes out every Wednesday on a current news topic. There is also furigana for the kanji that are used in the article. See the link below to the October 1, 2014 article on the Dengue fever outbreak in Japan.
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/kodomo/newspaper/weekly/20140920-OYT8T50079.html?from=yartcl_blist
Here is a list of past articles
Gimmeaflakeman Japanese News Lesson
If you’ve been studying Japanese for a while or just interested in the culture you may have stumbled upon a YouTube channel by an American living in Japan with the channel name “Gimmeaflakeman“. He posts some interesting videos you should check out.
Recently he has been doing Japanese lessons by breaking down Japanese news clips. Japanese news is one method I’ve mentioned on this blog as a good tool in learning Japanese, and was really glad to see these videos.
Here he is going through an ANN News clip
Eruption of Mount Ontake & News From Japan
In case you weren’t aware, Mount Ontake (ๅพกๅถฝๅฑฑ Ontake-san), the second highest volcano in Japan at 10,062 feet and located 125 miles west of Tokyo erupted over the weekend. There is some amazing amateur footage of the eruption and descending ash cloud.
This is called a “pyroclastic flow” consisting of hot gas and rock which can move at speeds of up to 450 mph! In this cloud of ash there may also be poisonous gases. I hope some of the hikers were able to survive.
Here is a link to a Wikipedia page on Mount Ontake, and it’s already updated with info about the recent eruption on September 27, 2014!
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Ontake
Mount Ontake in Nagano prefecture Credit: Google Maps
If you watch the Japanese news on YouTube or on a streaming channel, there will usually be a number of newscasts on significant recent events such as this. A good way to know what is happening is to read Japan related news sites that are in English and then watch the Japanese news broadcasts. I like to read a site called Japan Today:
After reading the news in English you can check out the ANN streaming news at the site below:
http://www.tv-tube.net/tvchannels/watch/1548/tv-asahi-ann-news
ANN and FNN also have YouTube channels with lots of news clips to choose from. You’ll be overwhelmed by the choices.
Japanese News & Vocabulary
Below is a link to a TV Asahi news clip about vending machines (่ชๅ่ฒฉๅฃฒๆฉ) in Tokyo that were found burned and the money stolen.
http://news.tv-asahi.co.jp/sphone/news_society/articles/000034970.html
Vocabulary
ใใฉใใฏใใฐใใใ่ชๅ่ฒฉๅฃฒๆฉใ
vending machine
ใใใใ็ใใใ
to burn
ใใใใใ็พ้ใ
cash, ready money, money on hand, currency; mercenary, self-interested, calculating
ใฌใใใ็ใใ
to steal
ใฒใใใใใ่ขซๅฎณ่
ใ
victim, injured party, sufferer
ใใใชใใๆฑใใ
dirty, filthy, foul, unclean; disordered, messy, untidy, poor (e.g. handwriting); indecent (language, etc.), dirty, vulgar, coarse; dastardly, mean, base, underhanded; stingy, greedy
ใใถใใๆฒนใ
oil
ใคใใฆใ
to be attached, to have, to be in a state; to be lucky, to be in luck
ใใใใกใใใ่ญฆ่ฆๅบใ
Metropolitan Police Department (esp. Tokyo)
ใใใใใ่ทฏไธใ
(on the) road, (on the) way
ใ ใใๅฐใ
stand, rack, table; support; belt; counter for machines, incl. vehicles; setting (e.g. in jewellery); level (e.g. price level), range (e.g. after physical units), period (of time, e.g. a decade of one’s life)
ใใ
ใใธใใๅจ่พบใ
circumference, outskirts, environs, around, in the area of, in the vicinity of; (computer) peripheral
ใฏใใใใๅๅพใ
radius
ใฏใใใ็ฏๅฒใ
extent, scope, sphere, range, span
ใใใใฆใๅใใใฆใ
in all, in total, collectively; in addition, besides, at the same time
ใพใใใใไธๅใ
10000 yen
NHK NEWS 7 Broadcast (09/02/13)
One of my hobbies (if you want to call it that) is searching the internet for things. I find it a challenge and neat when you come across interesting stuff. Here is a news segment from NHK ใใฅใผใน7 on 09/02/13. It’s interesting because it’s in Japanese with simultaneous English translation. The Japanese can be heard through the left audio channel and the English through the right.
Listen First – Read Second – Translation Third (Part #2)
This is part 2 of the technique of learning Japanese (or any other language for that matter), by (1) listening to Japanese, (2) reading a script of what’s spoken in Japanese and (3) finding an English translation. As I mentioned in the first post, Japanese news is a good method for doing this.
I like Fuji Network News. They have an online website, a YouTube channel, an app and a streaming video channel! The news segments are usually not that long; anywhere from less than a minute up to maybe 3 minutes. For the longer clips, the entire script may not be available.
Below is a 1 minute 17 second YouTube clip about the current Dengue Fever outbreak in Japan. In YouTube, below the video there is a website link for the the video which also has the Japanese script the announcer is reading.
Link to script: http://www.fnn-news.com/news/headlines/articles/CONN00276174.html
You can use Rikaichan on your Firefox browser to mouse over the Japanese script to read it or copy and paste the script into the Translator feature of the Midoriย or other apps mentioned in the first video. Below is an image of Rikaichan being used to lookup a word on the Japanese MSN website.
Here is a picture from the Translator function in the Midori app. The translator feature will look up words in the text, highlight them and produce a list.ย You can then touchon a word in the list and it will take you back to the dictionary for more information.ย You can also touch a word in the imported text, and it will highlight the word in the list.
Try it out and see your Japanese slowly improve.
NHK News Web Easy
Here is a great website to practice listening to Japanese news. It’s put together by NHK and has easier versions of regular news broadcasts with more slowly spoken Japanese and furigana over the kanji.
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