Erin’s Challenge! I can speak Japanese
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.
May 10th, 2011 at 11:31 am
FIRST COMMENT WIN!!!
that’s my contribution >:D
May 11th, 2011 at 5:51 am
Looks like something happened to your CSS or at least the link to it.
May 11th, 2011 at 10:40 am
Agreed. I almost didn’t recognize the site until I checked the URL
May 11th, 2011 at 5:23 pm
Thanks guys. There was something wrong in the new update for W3 Cache (which has a function to compress CSS automatically).
The site was actually working for me because logging into the admin account bypasses the site cache, so I didn’t notice.
It’s all good now.
May 15th, 2011 at 3:55 pm
Oh I remember this! :O
NUS used to (I’m not sure if it still does because I gave up on the system ages ago…) use Erin clips to supplement our lessons!