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		<title>Mistakenly Mao</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 13:02:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seeing as how we just kicked off the Winter Olympics, I thought this might be a fitting story even if it is a little off topic. There was an interesting piece in Canada&#8217;s National Post about Japanese figure skating star Asada Mao recently, describing how a local street vendor had named a hot dog after [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top Japanese Words and Phrases of 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 01:02:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pink Tentacle has another great year-end round up over on their site. Many are of these words and phrases are a good reflection of the big changes that happened not only in Japan, but on a global scale during the past year. Nevertheless, there are some interesting surprises on the list.
Here are the top ten: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;m moving to my own blog!</title>
		<link>http://nihongo.3yen.com/2008-05-16/im-moving/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 22:47:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tae Kim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[    About this site]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve decided to start my own blog at: http://www.guidetojapanese.org/blog/.
The reasons why I&#8217;ve decided to stop writing on 3yen is because I wanted more flexibility in the subject area since I&#8217;m currently learning Chinese. I also have more flexibility over the site itself and you&#8217;ll see things like recent comments and static pages that I haven&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Learning methods: does it matter?</title>
		<link>http://nihongo.3yen.com/2008-05-05/learning-methods-does-it-matter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 01:52:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tae Kim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[  Learning & Resources]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[プチポスト]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Normally I hate blog posts that just links to another blog that links to another blog that links to the primary source, especially when I&#8217;m subscribed to both blogs. Just give me the source, I don&#8217;t need your one line comment and link!
Nevertheless, I read a blog post about language learning methods and felt an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The most useful word&#8230; EVAR</title>
		<link>http://nihongo.3yen.com/2008-05-02/the-most-useful-word-evar/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 19:49:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tae Kim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[    Intermediate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[  Grammar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[  Vocabulary]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In every language, there&#8217;s a common pattern of the most useful words being the most complicated and confusing. This is a natural consequence from the fact that the word must cover many different types of usages and meanings in order to be so useful. Due to its usefulness, it will also often go through various [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Things that lose &#8220;coolness&#8221; when translated</title>
		<link>http://nihongo.3yen.com/2008-04-18/things-that-lose-coolness-when-translated/</link>
		<comments>http://nihongo.3yen.com/2008-04-18/things-that-lose-coolness-when-translated/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 15:57:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tae Kim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[    Intermediate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Misc.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[プチポスト]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Some things in Japanese just seem to lose their cool when translated into English.
I&#8217;m sure there are examples where the reverse is true but it&#8217;s much easier for me to come up with these examples.
Fighting words
「ぶっ倒してやる！」 (Cool) -> &#8220;I&#8217;m going to beat you!&#8221; (Not cool)
Technique/Spell/Summon Names
「螺旋丸！」 (Maybe Cool) -> &#8220;Spiraling Round [Thing]!&#8221; (Definitely not cool)
語尾 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What, you forgot it? Good!</title>
		<link>http://nihongo.3yen.com/2008-02-27/what-you-forgot-it-good/</link>
		<comments>http://nihongo.3yen.com/2008-02-27/what-you-forgot-it-good/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2008 17:43:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tae Kim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[    Beginner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[  Learning & Resources]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Misc.]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When I wrote that current spaced repetition software all suck, I wasn&#8217;t saying that you shouldn&#8217;t use them or that the idea of spaced repetition itself sucks. To make an analogy, Linus Torvalds said subversion sucks in a talk about git and while I found his talk interesting I still continue to use subversion. It&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lingq, a cool and promising flash card website</title>
		<link>http://nihongo.3yen.com/2008-02-16/linq-a-promising-and-cool-website/</link>
		<comments>http://nihongo.3yen.com/2008-02-16/linq-a-promising-and-cool-website/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2008 23:51:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tae Kim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[  Learning & Resources]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[プチポスト]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I just wanted to write a quick post about Lingq, a website I just found about today. It&#8217;s so cool that I just had to write something about it right away. It&#8217;s a real world implementation of some of my ideas for a better flash card program. Instead of having to create your own index [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>Final thoughts on remembering the kanji</title>
		<link>http://nihongo.3yen.com/2008-01-31/final-thoughts-on-remembering-the-kanji/</link>
		<comments>http://nihongo.3yen.com/2008-01-31/final-thoughts-on-remembering-the-kanji/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2008 22:59:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tae Kim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[    Beginner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[  Kanji]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[  Learning & Resources]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In my first post about Heisig&#8217;s Remembering the Kanji (RTK), I invited people to convince me that the book can teach you to &#8220;write kanji like a native&#8221; as claimed in the book&#8217;s introduction. As it turns out, it all depends on how you define, &#8220;write kanji like a native&#8221; and the introduction needed some [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>25</slash:comments>
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		<title>Ruby tags considered harmful</title>
		<link>http://nihongo.3yen.com/2008-01-08/ruby-tags-considered-harmful/</link>
		<comments>http://nihongo.3yen.com/2008-01-08/ruby-tags-considered-harmful/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2008 16:46:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tae Kim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[    About this site]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[  Kanji]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[  Learning & Resources]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[For those of you unfamiliar with the ruby tag, it is an html tag that adds tiny readings over kanji. 「ルビ」 traditionally is used in print for archaic kanji or when the author wants to indicate a non-standard reading for the kanji. However, on the net, ruby tags are being abused everywhere I see them. [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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