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Erin’s Challenge! I can speak Japanese

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Erin's Challenge

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.

5 responses

  1. Poro Avatar
    Poro

    FIRST COMMENT WIN!!!
    that’s my contribution >:D

  2. Xcomp Avatar
    Xcomp

    Looks like something happened to your CSS or at least the link to it.

  3. Jaemin Avatar
    Jaemin

    Agreed. I almost didn’t recognize the site until I checked the URL

  4. DarkMirage Avatar
    DarkMirage

    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.

  5. Soshi Avatar
    Soshi

    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!

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