Wednesday 4 November 2009

Anzumoji free かわいい handwritten font - How to get it (for MAC)




I was looking for Japanese handwritten fonts for my mac, and found  a great free font called Anzumoji at http://www8.plala.or.jp/p_dolce/index.html.

But it took a while  for me to find the actual font, fighting as I did to understand the Japanese!

So I made a little download guide . .. getting the font from the download site and into the font library on your Mac.

1. Go to the site http://www8.plala.or.jp/p_dolce/index.html and click on fonts in the right menu. :-)) (Easy part!)

2. Click on ◆フォントダウンロードページへ◆


3. On the next page click on ◆あんずもじ等幅をダウンロード◆.


This starts your download and apjfont.lzh appears in your download folder. (You can also click the link to the left. .. I dont know what the difference is. )

I had no idea what a lzh file was, so after a quick google I found ZIPEG , a free extractor, and extracted the lzh file. A folder called apjfont appeared on my desktop.




All I had to do now was drag the APJapanesefont.ttf into my fonts library et voila:-)
このフォントはかわいいですね。ありがとう



















Sunday 1 November 2009

あげる、くれる、もらう

Giving and Receiving in Japanese (notes from A dictionary of Basic Japanese Grammar and other sources that I don't remember)


あげる くれる もらう


To Give


あげる to give seen from speakers point of view


Use あげるwhen you are giving something, or when someone is giving something to someone (but not to you.)


(A)(B)(something)をあげます


examples:


私は母に本をあげました

父が山田さんに本をあげました


くれる to give from receivers point of view


Use くれるwhen you are being given something


(A)()(something)をくれます


examples:


母が私に本をくれました


To receive


Use もらう


(B) (A) (or から)をもらいます


examples:

母に本をもらいました