You can use Google to help you learn a foreign language. Google Images can help you get a visual picture of an unknown word. Just plug in the unfamiliar word and you'll get thousands of pictures showing you exactly what it is!

Plain old Google works too. If you don't know a word, plug it into google and you'll get millions of hits wi

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The Nintendo DS is a great tool for learning the Japanese language. It has a variety of games that can help you learn kanji (Chinese characters). This is a short review of one such game that my wife bought for me for my birthday last week. It has over 47,000 questions that cover all 12 levels of the Kanji Profiency Exam (Kanken).

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Sometimes we want to write a foreign loan word in Japanese.  We type it in like normal, but when we hit the space bar, the Japanese Input system doesn't recognize our intention and gives us a bunch of random kanji (Chinese characters).  Luckily, there is an easy hotkey to force the Japanese Input system to give us ka

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