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Summer in Japan gives you plenty of opportunities to use Japanese in everyday life. The heat becomes an almost unavoidable topic of conversation, but summer also means festivals, fireworks, kakigōri, yukata, cicadas, and long evenings spent outdoors. If ...
A three-volume series that offers a clear and progressive approach to mastering Japanese kanji from JLPT N5 to N1 levels. Learning kanji is one of the greatest challenges for students of Japanese. While it is possible to communicate verbally without e ...
Japanese summer can be really hot and humid. It lasts from June to September, with the hottest months being July and August. This year, the heat was especially intense, reaching about 40 degrees Celsius in some cities. During summer, there are many festi ...
If you’re learning Japanese, you’ve probably come across the word gohan (ごはん). It’s one of the first words taught in any beginner class, usually translated as “rice” or “meal.” But did you know that gohan represents much more than just food? ...
Confessions of a Japanese Linguist (NJM Publishing, 2014) is a detailed book by Shane Jones, an American ceramist artist, Japanese/English translator and language teacher who shares, with tons of generosity, all his thoughts and secrets on how to really ...
Do we need to learn it? The short answer is YES! Of course, any Japanese language learner needs to know Romaji’s rules, not only to understand how to read Japanese—which for Romance language speakers is not that difficult, even though it mixes phoneti ...
That is a common question among Japanese students trying to master not only the two kana syllabaries (hiragana and katakana), but also putting all the effort into learning the more complicated kanji, of Chinese origin. Eve ...
Depending On Your Level When you study Japanese in your home country, the lack of opportunities to listen and practice what you learn can be a little bit frustrating. Also, not using Japanese daily can lead to easily forgetting the vocabulary you stud ...