Thursday, February 12, 2009

Learn Japanese From Yoda

Well, not exactly. But, let me explain. It should come as no surprise that George Lucas may have been inspired by Japanese culture for many elements of the Star Wars saga. It is loaded with obviously Japanese-influenced names like Yoda and Obi-Wan Kenobi, the Jedi with their culture and Samurai lifestyle, etc.

And, as it turns out, Yoda speaks in a very Japanese manner.

So, there is this very interesting blog post and video that could be very helpful to beginning Japanese learners. It teaches some basic Japanese word order using Yoda as an example.

http://www.tofugu.com/2009/01/20/learn-japanese-from-yoda/

It's not really an entire site to learn Japanese from Yoda, but there are lots of interesting features on the site for Japanese learners to explore and have fun.

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