始めまして
Minh (ミン)です
高に生です
日本語を一人で勉強します
一緒に頑張りましょ~

こんにちは！
私はキラです。
よろしくおねがいします。

Hi Manelyn, nice to meet you. Fairly genki here. :)

hi kunichiwa ogenki desu ka tomodatchi……………watashiwa manelyn desu firipin jin

I’m not a native, but I have worked as a Japanese > English translator for several years and have a high level of comprehension; most of my work was in dialogue-heavy fields. If there’s any help I can be to people, great. Otherwise, just glad to enjoy good company with Japanese interests.

Thanks for asking. What I was doing before, and which I could do again, is record an .mp3 file, use software like Windows Movie Maker to time still jpeg images to the audio, and take the result of that. I’d be essentially narrating a slide show. The problem was that I didn’t do any mp4 conversion (because I didn’t know I required it at the time) before uploading to YouTube, hence “blurry” results from haphazard automatic conversion by YouTube.com. Surely I can do better than that.

With a new day on my hands, I was planning to follow previous advice and find YouTube’s help section and see what I can find etc., but any advice is most welcome. :)

I’m going to have to set up more free stuff that’s separate from SuperPass classes too. That’s not a problem. I’m just saying I have yet to do it. I should be able to deal with that over the course of today and tomorrow.

I really want to get a YouTube video up too, but it’s hard finding out what’s the best means for that. Still working on it.

First of all, sorry if this is not the right place to post this… Feel free to move or delete the post if you believe that it’s spammy or so.

I’m organizing a competition for Japanese learners at http://nihongoup.com/blog/japanese-resources-contest

There are many ways to enter, and many interesting prizes to win… You can review eduFire, NihongoUp, Human Japanese, or any other Japanese learning resource, interact on Facebook or tweet about the contest :)

Do you know much about the far more down to earth task of making basic YouTube videos? What software would work for that without making things all blurry (which I understand happened to me because of WMM → .mp4 conversion → Flash 7 conversion)? I just had my first Japanese class, a free intro for complete beginners that worked very well, and I want this material all over the Internet in YouTube form.

It went well, for those who managed to make it. It looks like I have good reason to set up at least two regular weeknight classes (spaced out properly) for the future.

Well, it’s 45 minutes before this class starts. I’ve been asked about teaching regularly on weekdays. I have not set a schedule for that yet. I’ll be asking people about what times are good for them as students.

Thanks, Corina, Andre. I’m definitely hoping to use the Connect Pro platform through eduFire to help more people with their pronunciation. Actually, today I’m starting a new experiment and trying to teach a little Japanese for the first time.

I think that I’m going to seriously get into podcasting (and even audiobooks, possibly) and try to push my voice as far as I possibly can. I’m not perfect, but I’m better than most, and that will have to do as a starting point.

Still accepting students! I’m glad my first Japanese tutoring class is garnering attention, but the Book of Five Rings is still great, great stuff, and I really am looking forward to presenting this to an audience of people interested in greater success. Of course, I’m still working on my own success, but I’m inspired by everyone here on this website.

Because inspiration implies passion, it is inevitably harder to sustain. You can be motivated to do something over a longish period of time and be periodically inspired to work even harder than usual.

Thanks Francisco, I’ll be checking it out too as soon as I have time. That’s in short supply tonight.

http://jbstrategy.blogspot.com/2009/11/addressing-popular-misconceptions-about.html

But I did get that up.