Firefox 2.0 Updates

Both of my extensions have been updated to work with the new version of Firefox (2.0). No functionality changes have been added, just a compatibility update, so look in the next few weeks for a new version of Chinesepera-kun with some much needed changes and possibly an updated Perapera-kun (Japanese) with a few bug fixes/updates a couple people wanted.

Perapera-kun (Japanese) 0.5.22
Chinesepera-kun 0.2.0

Finally Chinese Popups in Firefox

Finally it is here. An extension that does the same functionality as Rikai-chan did for Japanese, for Chinese!!!

This is a mod of my mod Perapera-kun, which was a mod of Rikai-chan. It works the exact same way as Perapera-kun including exporting words to a list for study. So you no longer have to pain thru copying, pasting, and right clicking to find how to pronounce a character. At least Im rejoicing…now I can officially begin studying Chinese. Enjoy!
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Rikai-chan becomes Perapera-kun

An otherwise great plugin, Rikai-chan was patently missing the ability to export words. Most people who used Rikai-chan study Japanese and were not people who just wanted to skim a Japanese Hentai site!!…wait I take that back…they probably were, so for the few of us ACTUALLY studying languages or at least are doing so in addition to browsing asian porn sites….enjoy!
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Japanese and Chinese Resource Links - 8/17

Found some great resources today.

Japanese
I found a blog awhile back called MutantFrog Travelogue which offers up interesting viewpoints on Japan related news/politics. In a recent post about which reports on Japan he respects he trivially tossed a link in his post to http://www.gregoryclark.net/ who is a used to be famous/is still famous australian who has lived in Japan and written many an article for Japan Times and other publications in Japan (in Japanese and English) and has these posted on his website. The articles are all in 2-column form with English on the left, and Japanese on the right–a great resource for learning political or recent news vocabulary!

Chinese
This also applies to Japanese, but a resource I found a loooong time ago (before I was studying Chinese) then remembered is MIT’s OpenCourseWare program. Everything is released under the CreativeCommons copyright and therefore is 100% free. You can download the whole course or go thru all the homework assignments, tests, handouts, and in the case of Chinese (and others I suppose), even textbooks are online for free. They also have culture and history courses available for the interested. Amazing resource and quite handy since I’m still at the starting out stage in Chinese. Highly Recommended.

• Chinese I
• Advanced Japanese I
• MIT’s directory of OpenCourseWare

Topic Focus: Shopping - Part 1

In my next english friendly topic post, I will take words from my 100yen purchase of a book about shopping. I really do find these more useful than I expected especially since the English conforms to the Japanese way to ask questions rather than vice versa. Alot of vocab in here I didnt know, some useful some I dont know Ive ever said in English before (exfoliating facial treatment). They are sorted by chapter and I read the first 2 so heres some highlights:

エリア	area	売上税	sales tax
免税店	duty-free shop	値札	price tag
ブランド店	designer shop	予算	budget/price range
売り場	selling area (section?)	売約済み	sold (on a tag)
地元	local/locals	オーバーする	go overbudget
ぐれる	go astray/get lost	特製品	special made item
呼び出し	announcement	割れ物	fragile goods
アナウンスをする	to announce	レジ	cashier
飾る	docorate/display	購入する	purchace
食品	foods	申告書	(paper) form
食器	kichenware	記入する	fill out
品揃え	selection	混ぜる	combine/intermix
手に取る	pick up	豪華な	fancy
お土産	suvenier	紙袋	paper bag
おもちゃ	kids toy	ビニール袋	plastic bag
くし	comb	別々に	seperately
ぬいぐりみ	stuffed animal	配達	delivery
日用品	daily necessities	着払い	COD
手帳	day planner	航空便	air mail
電卓	calculator	船便	sea mail
おいておりません。	don’t have any	返金する	refund
定価	original price	申告する	declare (immigration)

本日の擬音語：のんびり スッと

• のんびり
• 今度の休みはどこにも行かないつもりで家でのんびりだけしたいよ。
• スッと
• このジュースを飲むとスッと元気になるんだよ。

１２日目：２級の読解編

条件	保証書	通信販売	到着
返品	交換	裏面	使用感
傷	汚れる	あるいは	想像する

１２日目：保、留、守、伝、済、件、帯、信、歴、箱、規、変、選、決

保	保つ	保温	保湿	保険
留	留める	保留	留学	停留所	書留
守	守る	お守り	留守
伝	伝える	伝わる	手伝う	伝言
済	済む	返済	済み
件	用件	件名	事件
帯	地帯	携帯	温帯	帯
信	信じる	通信	信号	自信	着信
歴	履歴	履歴書	着信履歴
箱	ゴミ箱	受信箱	送信箱
規	新規	規定	定規
変	変える	変わる	変換	大変な
選	選ぶ	選択	選考	選手
決	決める	決まる	決定

１１日目：でたまらない、 でしょうがない、 でならない

• でたまらない
• 子供のことが心配でたまらない。
• 家族に会いたくてたまらない。
• おいしそう。　食べたいなあ。　ああ、たまらない。
• でしょうがない
• 今日は何もすることがなくて、暇でしょうがない。
• いい成績が取れて、うれしくてしょうがない。
• また、忘れ物をしたの？　しょうがないなあ。
• でならない
• 親友の結婚式に出席できないのが、残念でならない。
• 検査の結果が気になってならない。

１１日目：２級の読解編

異物	異常	引っかかる	はさむ
おもちゃ	万一	発生する	不安定な
花びん	植木鉢	ぬらさない	内部
本製品	家庭	専門家	身