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Reading Chinese on your iPhone Just Got Easier


Reading Chinese on your iPhone Just Got Easier Makers of popular language study applications Rikai Browser and Chinese Flash release [...]

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April 4th, 2012

Rikai Browser 1.5 Released


Rikai Browser, the easy way to read Japanese websites on your iPhone & iPad, has just been updated. In this [...]

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March 2nd, 2012

Juliette Review on Geek Mom


We recently launched Juliette & The Shiny Red Ballon, our first iPad children’s book. As we pointed out, it also [...]

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February 26th, 2012

New iPad Storybook Supports Families of Children with Cancer


TOKYO – The Tyler Foundation, a charity supporting children with cancer and their families, has a new venue for fundraising: [...]

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February 1st, 2012

Should we add this to Japanese & Chinese Flash?


We consider Japanese Flash and Chinese Flash to be pretty mature products: most of the code has been developed over [...]

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January 19th, 2012

New iOS App Chinese Flash Combines Vocab Study, Tone Practice


TOKYO – Jan 9, 2012 – Chinese Flash, a new tool for studying Chinese vocabulary, launched today on the Apple [...]

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January 9th, 2012

Coming Soon: Juliette and the Shiny Red Ballon


A couple months ago we were approached by a friend of ours about making a children’s book. He knew about [...]

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November 19th, 2011

Japanese Flash Featured On CNN GO


For the month of September, we’ve teamed up with the guys at Foreign Volunteers Japan to help rebuild Tohoku by [...]

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September 11th, 2011

‘Japanese Flash’ Teams up with Foreign Volunteers Japan to Learn for Tohoku


TOKYO – September 1, 2011 – Long Weekend, makers of learning software Japanese Flash, announced that 50% of the app’s [...]

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August 31st, 2011

Updated Bilingual Browser App Adds Word Study Integration and Email/SMS Support


TOKYO – June 14, 2011 – Successful language students know repetition is key to mastery. Finding and remembering words in [...]

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June 15th, 2011

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