Archive for April 27th, 2009

Kanji Scrabble #02: Have Fun Learning with Kanji Scrabble: a Kanji Game Just for Twitter!

Monday, April 27th, 2009

To help your Kanji studies, we came up with a fun game using Twitter!

Kanji Scrabble, a JapanesePod101.com original game. (Learn How to Play Here)

The Kanji for this week are as follows: (Remember, each compound must use the Kanji in the brackets [ ].)

Kanji Scrabble #02 [中]　日、二、本、一、国、人、十、中、三、時 (Learn How to Play Here)

To start, all you need is a Twitter account and to follow our Twitter account @japanesepod101

(What’s Twitter you ask? Read our guide here.)
We’re waiting for your tweets and blog comments!

@Hint: (deleted)

Kanji Scrabble #2 Answers

Kanji Kana English Meaning
一日中 いちにちじゅう Throughout the day
中中 なかなか Very, considerabley, easily, readily, quite, highly, rather, by no means (with negative verb)
中二 ちゅうに Second year of junior high
中人 ちゅうじん Person of middling talent, strength, etc. Middle class person, bourgeois person, Matchmaker or middleman.
中国 ちゅうごく China, South-west most region of Honshu, Middle of a country, The Hiroshima area
中国人 ちゅうごくじん Chinese person
中日 ちゅうにち China and Japan, the middle day, the equinoctial day
人中 ひとなか Society, company, the public, the world
国中 くにじゅう All over the country
日中 にっちゅう Daytime, during the day, Sino-Japanese
日中 にっちゅう Daytime, during the day, Sino-Japanese
日本中 にほんじゅう Throughout Japan

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Everyone Wins! If You Played Kanji Scrabble Last Week, You’re a Winner!

Monday, April 27th, 2009

Thanks for playing and for all the great feedback on our first-ever Kanji Scrabble game!

30+ people played Kanji Scrabble #01 by putting their answers on Twitter.
Several more visited the blog and offered feedback and advice.

When we created the game, we had no idea how it would go.  You took a chance on us by playing, so we want to say “Thank You!” for help making the game a success.

So what do you win?

Everyone who answered on Twitter or commented on the blog entry gets a 1-month Basic Subscription ($8). Our way of saying thank you!

What do you do if you’ve won?

If you played, you won.

Simply e-mail us contactus@japanesepod101.com with your JapanesePod101 username and Twitter username. (You’ll need to be a member for us to upgrade you.  so If you’re not already a member, sign up and then email us.)

*Moving forward, we will be offering prizes. So stay tuned for more!

What is Kanji Scrabble?

In short, it’s a fun and interactive way to learn Kanji on Twitter.

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