![]() ![]() I especially related to how Yozo finds things that help him for a little while, fleeting moments where he thinks everything will turn out alright, only to be brought back into the throes of depression. Interspersed with examinations of society and work culture, I found the book increasingly interesting and moving. I found that I related a lot to the visceral feelings of “otherness” that Yozo describes, and in the time and culture it was published-post-World War II Japan-the descriptions are especially poignant.ĭazai threads the needle of writing about mental illness without seeming melodramatic, even with Yozo’s descriptions of feeling inhuman scattered throughout the book. The book holds a particular focus on the alienation of childhood depression, describing the way Yozo moves through life in a time before the language of mental illness was ever discussed out loud. Dazai shows a scarily realistic look into the mind of a man that struggles through depression, alienation, and addiction as he searches for a way to be human. As a semi-autobiographical work, it depicts much of Dazai’s own life through the eyes of the main character, Oba Yozo, from his failures with love to his participation in the Communist Party to the momentary bits of tenderness in his life. No Longer Human was the Japanese author’s last complete work before he committed suicide in 1948. When I first read No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai in an attempt to expand my focus beyond American literature, I did not expect the book to impact me as much as it did. The price – 8.99€ (9.Trigger warning: This review contains discussion of depression, mental illness, and suicide.Sometimes responsiveness when you press on the buttons is slow.The trial version is pretty big (around 20% of the content is for free).Dictionary to lookup for the vocabulary.Learning games and interesting stories to keep the motivation up.This is not very often but it is still sometimes anoying Pros Sometimes the app didn’t react when I touched buttons on the touchscreen for some seconds. So you have plenty of content to study which includes the full Hiragana alphabet! The other somewhat bigger drawback is the responsiveness. But for that I have to say that you can download the trial version which gives you around 20% of the content for free. ![]() The biggest one is the huge price compared to other apps (it’s 9.99$). The negative sitesĪnyway, there are still some drawbacks and limitations. I found everything of that pretty helpful for studying in the train. For people who have problems to pronounce the given vocabulary, the can listen to over 1800 recordings. ![]() Furthermore it teaches you Hiragana and Katakana (two of the three used alphabets) and also the stroke order with animations how to write them properly. A good design and the functionality is the 500 pages of content which not only teach you some words like “ありがとう”(arigatou = thank you) but the app brings the student also closer to geographical, historical and cultural facets of Japan and its language. And either the design is horrible or the content is pretty sparse. That price is ok, but they lack of implementation a lot. The good thing about the Windows Phone is, that you can learn in the train or in situations where you usually stare at the wall bored and wait for the thing to come. What you can find is a bunch of Japanese learning software. So I decided to have a look in the Markeplace. The first thing in my mind was: “How could I learn that language in my speed with my busy time schedule I have?”. Since I got a kind of addiction to the Japanese language, I started to study it some month ago. I choosed apps which I like and I think that could be for interesting for other users too. In the next weeks I wanna do some reviews for some apps of the Windows Phone 7. WP7 App Review: Human Japanese Sebastian Schütze
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