I have had a lot of difficulty choosing a favorite blog. No one blog seems to jump out at me as being the "quintessential" blog. Rather, I find bits and pieces of different blogs to be very attractive. The blog I noticed the most, as far as physical set up went, was the blog "Monologue" of a Columbia student. The website itself was incredibly creative and well done, and I felt compelled to read it because it looked to very interesting. The actual posts themselves, however, contained little Japanese or almost no pictures :( . "Claire" from Smith College also had a very pretty backdrop for her blog, but once again very few posts and almost no pictures.
"Isshin"'s blog (http://isshinlim.blogspot.com/) from Universiti Sains Malaysia provided LOTS of pictures that were relevant and funny and made reading her blog very enjoyable. "Subtitles" in English also helped in case there was a gap between her level of Japanese and mine. (Kanji were mainly problematic--I should download that program . . .) While there were lots of pictures, I wish there had been a little more Japanese text to go with them.
I think there there should be a nice balance between text and pictures in a blog, as well as an attractive background to set them off.
4 comments:
こんにちは！
I agree with you -- there wasn't one absolutely wonderful blog but I did find one that was close to it :) I remember seeing the blog from the Universiti Sains Malaysia. I thought it was good too but he hasn't updated in a while...
I'm not a huge Johnny Depp fan; a friend gave it to us to put on our wall. He has, however, had some excellent performances.
On blogs, I agree that no one's is perfect, but I like to see the different points of view people bring to the blogs. There are just so many. It's interesting to see what each of us picked out as well done.
(The comment is long because I felt guilty that I couldn't say anything in にほんご。）
「にほんごをならうのがすきですか」のいみ(meaning)は、"How do you like learning Japanese?"
When you put 「の」 after the dictionary form of a verb(you probably haven't learned dictionary form yet, but if not, you will soon!), it turns the verb into a noun. ならう means "to learn," so 習うの means "the act of learning!" とてもべんりなフォームですね！
そうですね、I agree with you, すいかおんなさん。pictures and text should have a good balance, and now everyone can express a lot in 日本語！
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