Tag: A Certain Magical Index

Last time I wrote about an interesting feature of the Japanese language, a class of four-character kanji phrases that are ...

The Japanese use English in many ways in their daily lives, for expressing words related to automobiles or technology, for ...

One thing that's good about living in a foreign country is the way you come to understand the people around ...

Body language is a big part of communication, and one aspect of interacting with the Japanese is picking up on ...

I managed to catch a natsu-kaze or "summer cold" which has knocked me out for the past couple of days, ...

I write a lot about how Japanese is a vague, nuanced language that can create some challenges for Westerners trying ...

Anime is a useful bridge between East and West since it allows you to pick up on some of the ...

Learning a foreign language like Japanese is fun because it makes you more aware of how your own brain works. ...

Getting into anime means exposing yourself to a world of new ideas, some of which might be potentially confusing at ...