Comments on: Japan is Wherever You Are: 10 Ways to Turn Your Environment Japanese

By: ありゃりゃぎ

ありゃりゃぎ — Sat, 12 May 2018 06:43:11 +0000

What’s wrong about creating a new identity, tho?

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By: Insiya

Insiya — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 01:46:17 +0000

Just get a low coffee table. It’s basically the same thing.

By: Insiya

Insiya — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 01:45:00 +0000

Hey, Full House is awesome!!!

By: PinkStars

PinkStars — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 23:06:33 +0000

I’ve been trying to immerse my self since 2009. Movies – done. Music – done. Food – done. Furniture – done to the best of my ability. I have 4 kids though, ages now almost 2 – 13. Where I have been trying to teach them words and such in Japanese (e.g. いただきます！), I don’t think I can go “speak all in Japanese and nothing else!” or my kids aren’t going to understand anything I’m saying. Perhaps maybe say it in English and then also In Japanese? I don’t know enough to just spout off “PUT ON YOUR SHOES WE HAVE TO LEAVE RIGHT NOW THE BUS IS COMING YOU’RE GOING TO BE LATE RAWWR!!” Hm.. so then maybe I should learn all my screaming ahead of time? Haha! Any suggestions? XD

By: PinkStars

PinkStars — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 23:00:59 +0000

I modded my current dining room table into the low Japanese style table. I just took the existing legs off, and went to my local hardware store and bought new legs. I painted them black to at least sort of match, and put them on the table. It was a really easy process. Then I bought some big “floor pillows” as I have seen them called in the US at least, at bed bath and beyond to use as my seats. 🙂 Hope that helps! Not sure where you live, but I’m sure other stores may have big pillows you can use as well. Good luck!

By: Octonion

Octonion — Wed, 26 Dec 2012 21:03:32 +0000

In place of a proper zataku I’ve been planing to get a low coffee table (something like this: www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/20135022/ ). The exact same model is available from the Ikea Japan website, which I guess makes this authentic in some sense 🙂

By: ライトニング

ライトニング — Tue, 25 Dec 2012 19:26:26 +0000

Does anybody know where I can get a Zataku and Seiza online for a decent price? I can’t find one anywhere.

By: asd

asd — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 20:24:10 +0000

How can you think in Japanese if you dont know it? Or is this after learning kanji and kana?

By: Jacob

Jacob — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 03:05:46 +0000

Step 1: youtube
Step 2: find japanese music you like on youtube… Its there dont be lazy
Step 3: youtube–> mp3 converter site.
Step 4: fill your harddrive with more than you will EVER listen too.
Step 5: listen to it until you know every word to every song

By: Jessi

Jessi — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 18:59:18 +0000

Hello!!
I love this, it’s great advice! I’ve followed this as much as I can. My bedroom is my Japanese zone. Everything Japanese down to the core. Only Japanese spoken, listened, watched etc. (I live with my mother, so I have to speak English to her or else she starts complaining the entire time and it just gets out of hand.)
But my question is, do you think it’s a good idea to have ‘english’ hours? Like, if you completely immerse yourself in a Japanese enviroment and you continue to do so for days-weeks-etc, is it alright if you ‘earn’ an hour of English whatever? Like an hour of English music or English videogames, etc? As long as the person goes straight back into Japanese after that complete 60 minutes(with a timer)?
I haven’t done that yet. This is actually the only English I’ve spoken/typed all day. I love Japanese too much to not do it unless the sentences I’m thinking of are way off my radar.

Any other advice would be great 🙂

PS- I do still have my English novels out (*Smacks hands in punishment*) but they’re taped off with off limits tape XD I’ve been good about not touching them. I have many Japanese novels that I bought while I was in Kobe, so I keep to those or my study books.

By: Suisei

Suisei — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 18:51:24 +0000

I told my family I have to get rid off all my english books movies ect and they think I don’t have to. :/ They aren’t really supporting this either. 🙁 Also…I have a ton of english translated manga x.X but luckily I’m a big fan of japanese dubbed anime with english subs that it’s easy to turn the subs off :3 I really wish I had money to replace my fave english movies with japanese dubbed. 🙁

I did try NicoNicoDouga making an account on there but keep getting an error..that says This URL became invalid because of expiration(24 hours) or already completed registration.

If you consider it is already expired (24 hours), please restart the procedure from the first page.

Not sure what’s going on there. Also, I’d like to thank everyone for replying to me. I would love to reply back but not sure how. When I click reply it just sends me to the bottom of the page and no text box is shown. X.X

By: Routine

Routine — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 15:47:44 +0000

I’m a bit worried my love for Disney/Dreamworks animated movies and books is going to interfere with setting up a Japanese environment xD. Since I’m just a poor high school student, I can’t really afford to get those movies dubbed in Japanese and it doesn’t seem like they have any good torrent sites like TPB in Japan (poor guys), so I have to settle for the English versions. Well, I managed to find some movies in Japanese on Nico Nico, but it’s still a fraction of those I like to watch.
And books. As much as I’d like to get books in Japanese, a similar problem – lack of money.
Well, for now, I’m off to look for a Japanese radio…

By: Chagami

Chagami — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 14:14:53 +0000

It sounds like the issue isn’t that they disapprove of you learning Japanese, they just believe in the old fashioned “Text books are the only way you can learn” theory.

Maybe you need to ease them in? Get your hands on RTK, sit down at the kitchen table, and start working on it. If your Mom asks what you’re doing, I’ve got a feeling that she’ll actually believe you’re doing Japanese.

Then, later on, perhaps play Japanese tunes while you work. She may ask, “what kind of music is that?”, and you can tell her Japanese. She may or may not like the music, but she’ll probably believe you.

Then, start SRSing, so when she sees you on the computer, you can show her the Kanji from the book on the screen. This may be the crossover thing that allows you to be seen on the computer, and to actually be thought of as doing Japanese.

And hopefully it’ll just go from there. I’m fortunate that my parents are supportive of my Japanese interests, so by not experiencing your dilemma first hand, my advice may be useless, but still, I hope it at least leads you in the right direction!

By: Anony Moose

Anony Moose — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 05:30:05 +0000

The problem is, Mom thinks that whatever I’m really doing on the internet is actually playing. Even if I show her what it really is, it seems to be hardwired in her mind that “I’m doing Japanese stuff” = “I’m gaming”.

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By: Kimura

Kimura — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 23:37:14 +0000

Food is a big part of culture, so probably yes. With Japanese, it’s a good idea to go beyond the stereotypical teriyaki and california roll. and go for real 和食. Including sake, unless you’re legally/physically too young to be able to drink alcohol.

By: ライトニング

ライトニング — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 17:20:50 +0000

You’re about 3 years late to respond 🙂

By: Miss Language Learning

Miss Language Learning — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 15:57:20 +0000

Wow, you’re weak. I mean, I did this whole immersion thing when I was 18, and I got laughed at a lot.
Who cares? My parents disapproved too, at least at the beginning. Convince them it’s good for you. I did. I just kept going.