The J-List staff continues to add great new products to the site at an incredible pace, with tons of amazing Sailor Moon, Cardcaptor Sakura, Totoro, and Rilakkuma products in stock and ready for your order. We’ve got great news for our customers, too: an EMS Cash Back sale! Get a $50 store coupon for ordering $200 or more, or a $20 coupon for ordering $100 or more, when you order using EMS!
J-List is located in Gunma Prefecture, in the exact center of Japan, famous for grand mountains, cold, windy winters and a delicious pork cutlet dish called sauce katsudon. Perhaps because we’re just a 2-hour train ride from Tokyo, our prefecture is often used as the setting for a lot of anime series, with locations such as famous hot spring towns, exciting mountain overpasses and even the pool I used to take my kids to showing up in 2D form. Nichijou, a 4-koma manga and anime about a genius child professor, a robot she builds and a talking cat (and some other stuff), is set in J-List’s home town of Isesaki, and contains several Easter eggs for Gunma residents, which I explain in a graphic if you’re curious. Japan is undergoing a huge boom in yuru-chara or cute local characters designed to promote tourism, which I also show in the graphic. Click to read about the Gunma references in Nichijou!
Part of mastering a foreign language involves coming up with strategies that help you trick your brain into learning. In my own case, I figured out early on that I learned better if I made word associations, allowing me to tie a word like 暗い kurai (dark) to the similar-sounding English word “cry” using the sentence “cry in the dark,” or combining 死ぬ shinu (to die) with the English words “she knew,” creating “she knew he was going to die.” These word associations can get quite silly, yet they really get the job done and very useful tools. One year my son was preparing to take a standardized English test called the STEP test, and I wanted to help him get through the vocabulary he was trying to memorize. He was having trouble until I got the idea of tying the words to lines from the Star Wars films, which we’ve watched together many times. For example, one difficult word was “contamination,” so I turned on my C-3P0 voice and spat out the Episode IV line, “I’ve got such a bad case of dust contamination I can barely move.” Apparently my idea of studying through Star Wars was a good one, because now there’s a Star Wars English-Japanese Dictionary for Padawan Learners we have on the site.
If you need to order some awesome products from Japan and get them delivered in time for Christmas, J-List has your back with our new EMS Shipping Sale! We’ll give you $20 back for EMS orders of $100 or more, or a sugoi $50 back for orders of $200 or more, when you order using EMS shipping. EMS is the super-fast, super-reliable shipping method that will zip products to your door from Japan in only a few days, will tracking and
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