Hello everybody,

Would you like to start speaking and reading japanese
( hiragana and katana)? Do you already know them?

I’m really need to get a hold of more complex grammar. I know basic subject, object, verb but I think I want to learn how to express the time and place. I know a few of the particles and their uses but I don’t know which order to put them in in the sentence. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

hi..Im looking for sites for help me in japanese language….
I hope every one can help me improve my japanese language

おはようございますみんなーさんは~わたしのおなまえはらいざです。。よろしくおねがいします~~^_^

Hi all,

Japanese for Absolute Beginners http://bit.ly/3Jw4tA and Japanese for Beginners http://bit.ly/SHUUZ start again this week. Why don’t you join us, it’ll be lots of fun.

math and science, for sure. I had terrible teachers in those subjects for the most part :(

I’m using the pro version because i like having the desktop app, though it’s kind of pricey. The normal version works pretty well, and you can display your presentations via your browser. I just do a screenshare to show my presentation, because (of course) it’s not compatible with Adobe Connect, or anything really.

After doing a quick looksy, here’s bulleted recommendations:

- Invest the $10/month to own your own domain and get it hosted. If you’re interested in doing this send me an e-mail since I can get discounts for folks who join my hosting service via me.

- Yep, I would recommend Wordpress. There are some Blogspot blogs that do well, but there are many more Wordpress Blogs doing better. You can customize a lot more, there are great plugins that help with things like SEO, subscribing, etc., and I think it’s easier to use, though that’s just my own opinion.

- Add an image to every post, and make those images awesome. It’s been shown time and time again that images are one of the main factors to get people to read articles and click through.

- Titles of posts could probably communicate more information about each post – hard part is to make the post still interesting while relaying that information. Right now when I read some of the titles I don’t know what I’m getting in the content, which makes me want to move on.

- For comments, a few ways to increase that: 1. Talk about something controversial. 2. Use Disqus (if you’re not already). 3. Guilt people into commenting (go to the front page of http://tofugu.com and see how I write the copy around the # of comments…. It’s increased comments by a bit since doing that). 4. Ask questions at the ends of your posts to encourage commenting. 5. Ask people to comment and see what they think.

- Drive traffic from Twitter, one targeted person at a time. It’s tough when you’re first starting, so each individual counts, and I think it’s more important to focus on single people until you hit around 100 unique readers a day, then you can start working the word-of-mouth.

- YouTube videos is also a great way to drive traffic to your blog.

- Lastly, I’d recommend figuring out more solidly what your niche is. People love reading niche news, because why read something that’s not a niche when it’s so easy to follow the absolute best niche content around the web and bring it to you in Google Reader.

- Make it easier to subscribe via RSS. Sign up for Feedburner, too, so you know how many people are subscribing. Big RSS icons are awesome.

- Read blogs about blogging…. or, more specifically, find some that you like and connect with and read all of the posts. It’ll take a day or two of lots o’ reading, but totally worth it. And then, subscribe and keep on learning. There’s soooo much to learn about blogging, and how to really make it work for you and your biz, and it’s all about learning learning learning, which, I suppose, is why we’re here at eduFire. Blogging class anyone?

Hope those help, I just subbed your blog!

Welcome to eduFire Terry! I see you are in both of the orientations, perfect! I look forward to seeing you around eduFire :)

Welcome to eduFire Terry! :) You will enjoy the orientation!

Hi Momen and welcome to eduFire! I don’t believe you have attended the teacher orientation classes yet which I highly recommend. It will teach you how to use the virtual classroom and much more. clicky here If you need anything, just let me know and enjoy teaching here!

Hi and welcome to eduFire! Payment is made through a PayPal account or credit card. Can you attend a student orientation class? The class will teach you everything you need to know about studying here :) click here to register

need a place to stay in tokyo?

see if this place is legit: http://www.sakura-house.com/

@Jenny-Lyn good deal. and whenever you remember the name of the ‘secluded spot’ in imabari, you know who’ll want to know what it is??? ME, ME, ME!

btw, u happen to have any links or pics to share of the places u’ve mentioned? this is “ProjectJapan: Our Trip In Pictures”…as i just got reminded by visiting the 1st page of this post…whew…been so long since i’d actually read & wirtten that.

@Joe ditto to what Jenny-Lyn said. have a Great trip!

so folks, ya heard it here from Jenny-Lyn…and we hope to re-post the info she shared in 1 of our normal? formats later. tbc (to be continued)

in the meantime, here are some pictures to by which to get intrigued.
http://www.jref.com/gallery/showgallery.php/cat/554

I hope more people will attend this creative writing class. Andre’s exercises spark the imagination. It’s a fun way to put theory into practice.