Thoghts on learning Japanese back in 1987, the many nuances of Japanese name suffixes, and being romantic under an umbrella
I sometimes find myself thinking back to my college days when I first started learning Japanese, and it never fails ...
I sometimes find myself thinking back to my college days when I first started learning Japanese, and it never fails ...
When a foreigner comes to live in Japan, he or she is in for some changes. I remember my first ...
Slate.com ran an article yesterday on Apple's Japanese iTunes Music Store and how frustrating it was that fans of J-POP ...
The fermented soybeans known as natto (NAT-toh) are one of the most famous foods in Japan, enjoyed throughout the country, ...
The subject of Japan's police is an interesting one. Japan's boys in blue are organized under the umbrella of the ...
People talk about convergence all the time, of things coming together in a more convenient form. Living in Japan, one ...
We have a rule at our house: in order to help our kids become bilingual, we only watch DVDs from ...
Part of Peter's Unified Theory of Japan is that the Land of the Rising Sun has a lot in common ...
Bathing is very important in Japan, and almost all Japanese take time to enjoy a slow bath at the end ...
I'll never forget the moment. In my first year of SDSU, my family got a Japanese homestay student who stayed ...
Today is a holiday in Japan, Seijin-no-hi, or Coming of Age Day. Venture into any Japanese city right now and ...
One thing I like about learning another language is the understanding you get of how your own brain works, not ...
One of the cool things about teaching ESL in Japan was learning my own language and its grammar. Language is ...
Happy New Year from J-List! In Japanese, the phrase is akemashite omedeto gozaimasu (ah-kay-mah-shtay oh-meh-deh-TOH go-ZA-EE-mahs), literally "congratulations on opening ...