Hats off to those gung ho folks who have decided to go for complete Japanese immersion in their online computer environment. Setting your computer's language preference to Japanese or running a Japanese OS and doing your online tasks on Japanese sites will make reading Japanese an integral part of your day, you will learn contextually and the repetition is just what the language acquisition doctor ordered. If you get stuck you can always use rikaichan, LiveDictionary or Moji.
It is simple enough to find news, tech support, search and bloggy musings in Japanese, but what do you do about sites like flickr, Alexa or YouTube which you use regularly but are yet to provide Japanese localisation? Try Japanize, a Firefox plugin which does on the fly Japanese localisations for a whole bunch of popular English websites. Japanize is designed for J-folks who want to use English language sites but it is perfect for Japanese learning keen beans who masochistically want to force themselves to deal with as much Japanese text as possible. (via from the inside, looking in, the blog of a returnee venture capitalist called Shinichiro Fukushige and a great read, often with bilingual postings)
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