Japanese Pronunciation Guide 2012
Every once in a while I like to revisit the rules of Japanese pronunciation, since the language can be tricky. ...
Every once in a while I like to revisit the rules of Japanese pronunciation, since the language can be tricky. ...
Pachinko is the national pastime of Japanese men, and most anytime you drive by one of the many pachinko parlors ...
There are many differences between Japan and the U.S., and some of them can be downright hard to reconcile. When ...
I like living in Japan a lot, but one aspect of my adopted country I'm not a fan of is ...
It was reported last week that the Japanese Diet had passed a new law that outlawed various forms of Internet ...
Japanese Urban Legends and...Totoro? As with any culture, the Japanese are susceptible to urban legends, the (usually mistaken) beliefs that ...
The Japanese, of course, spend a lot of energy learning English, with most taking six years of the language, or ...
I've done my best to understand the Japanese in the 20 years I've lived in the country, and while I've ...
Recently I wrote about a class of four-character compound words that are fun for students of Japanese to learn because ...
One of the more surprising aspects of Japanese popular culture is the number of stories featuring characters of questionable gender, ...
Earlier this year I took a trip to Australia, which was a lot of fun. I noticed something while I ...
It's always fun to see what natural coincidences occur between languages. A Swedish friend of mine who's married to an ...
Although I love living in Japan, I'm happy that I'm not there now. The reason is that Japan has entered ...
One character archetype I like a lot is the tsundere (TSOON-deh-reh), a word which combines tsun tsun (meaning angry, grouchy) ...
One of the most useful words of Japanese is sumimasen, which generally corresponds to "excuse me," though like most aspects ...
It's always interesting to explore the "when worlds collide" moments between Japan and the U.S. Tomo, the J-List employee who ...
Well, my wife has gone back to Japan, having spent a nice two weeks with me here in San Diego ...
One of our favorite recent anime series is I Have Few Friends, known by its requisite four-syllable nickname as Haganai, ...
Japan is, on the whole, a very safe place. The number of murders in the entire country is among the ...
The Japanese language has a lot of unique features, like its syllable-based pronunciation system in which ka, ki, ku, ke ...
I've just gotten back from Las Vegas, after a bit of a relaxing vacation. Mrs. J-List was with me, and ...
Recently an American friend of mine who works as a professor at a Japanese university told me he bought a ...
I've been enjoying my time in San Diego, zooming around the freeways as I drive to the J-List San Diego ...
Life is a little more fun when you know some Japanese, whether it's to communicate with nihonjin who can't use ...