{"id":1527,"date":"2011-05-09T12:56:35","date_gmt":"2011-05-09T04:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/?p=1527"},"modified":"2011-05-09T12:56:35","modified_gmt":"2011-05-09T04:56:35","slug":"erins-challenge-i-can-speak-japanese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/2011\/05\/09\/erins-challenge-i-can-speak-japanese\/","title":{"rendered":"Erin&#8217;s Challenge! I can speak Japanese"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"caption\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.erin.ne.jp\/en\/index.php\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/09_erin.jpg\" alt=\"Erin's Challenge\" style=\"width:400px; height:250px;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I am months late to the game, but I found this interesting Japanese-learning website set up by the Japan Foundation called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.erin.ne.jp\/en\/index.php\">Erin&#8217;s Challenge! I can speak Japanese<\/a>. It has a few dozen short skits with copyable soft-subs in Japanese, kana, romaji and English and a bunch of Flash <a href=\"https:\/\/www.erin.ne.jp\/en\/lesson04\/vocabulary\/index.html\">learning apps<\/a>. The corny acting is so amusing. The website also comes in Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese and Korean.<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;s time we do something with it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am months late to the game, but I found this interesting Japanese-learning website set up by the Japan Foundation called Erin&#8217;s Challenge! I can speak Japanese. It has a few dozen short skits with copyable soft-subs in Japanese, kana, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/2011\/05\/09\/erins-challenge-i-can-speak-japanese\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[1037,1036],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1527"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}