Ads make an appearance

2009年 12月 13日 by Vili | 3 comments

As you may have noticed, we’ve added some links to The Japan Shop on the front page, and will be experimenting with them on other pages as well. They’re obviously advertisements. But I’m hoping they might be somewhat useful to Speedanki users, as opposed to being merely annoying, as most ads tend to be in my experience. Whether you’re studying for the JLPT or learning Japanese for other purposes, you really do need to have some offline study materials to complement your online studies. In my experience, shiny new materials also help in keeping your study motivation up. The products featured are not random stuff, but things that I know are good, in many cases because I have personally used them during my many years of Japanese studies.

If you want to support Speedanki, feel free to buy your stuff through these links. The Japan Shop ships internationally with reasonable shipping costs. Our commission is not going to make us rich, but I’m hoping it would somewhat offset the server hosting bill. Also, Clay, the guy who runs The Japan Shop with his wife Yumi, is a great guy and worth doing business with.

P.s. they also have some cheap downloadable audio products. I have the Sound and Action Japanese Instant Download ($2.99) and I’m having a lot of fun with words like びりびり and せかせか at the moment. ^^

  1. Owen Hilton’s avatar

    Owen Hilton on 2009年 12月 16日 at 20時 11分

    Ads for learning-aids could be useful but please don’t put them on the flashcard pages. Apart from being a distraction, for those of us using mobile broadband in areas of poor reception they may slow things down too much.

  2. Vili’s avatar

    Vili on 2010年 1月 1日 at 20時 35分

    Thanks for your comment, your point about mobile users is taken. On the other hand, most users rarely see the front page, so that by itself is not much of a media. More thinking needed..

  3. cristy’s avatar

    cristy on 2010年 1月 19日 at 21時 12分

    Thanks for publishing a convenient way to memorize and check kanji skills. I hope to increase my knowledge. I would appreciate it if you would also include grammar lessons.I’m preparing to take the JLPT
    I’m building another website and I would like to include this link to my site. Thank you