Tag: Japanese language

How do you feel when you're watching anime and a character uses an honorific like "Onii-chan," but the subtitles use ...

I will never eat pasta salad without chuckling ever again. Nor will I be able to look at the bisexual ...

Everyone knows that Japanese is a hard language to learn, right? But I found it surprisingly easy, partly because it ...

Learning a foreign language involves a lot of things. You must get used to new grammar and word order and ...

There are so many worthwhile anime series for fans to enjoy each season it can be easy to miss one. ...

One of the most enjoyable romance anime of the winter 2023 season was Otonari no Tenshi-sama ni Itsunomanika Dame Ningen ...

I love social media because I can maintain a running conversation with hundreds or thousands of people about topics like ...

I'm fascinated at how a country can look a certain way when viewed from far away culturally and geographically, then ...

One thing I love is language, and making the decision to study Japanese in university back at SDSU was one ...

Whenever people get culturally closer to another country, words are shared between them. Let's look at 16 Japanese words we ...

It seems to me like every otaku’s dream is to learn Japanese, whether it is to understand anime better or ...

If you've studied Japanese at any time in the 21st century, you've probably done so using the Genki Integrated Japanese ...

What social media sites do you visit these days? While I use Facebook mostly to interact with followers on our ...

One of the fun parts of becoming an anime fan is opening yourself to a completely new language, which naturally ...

I've written before that memes don't flow very freely across language groups, and anime visual jokes and ideas we take ...

The Best Way to Learn Japanese is the JLPT One thing I'm passionate about is the Japanese language. Learning Japanese ...

Moekana 2nd Edition – Learn Hiragana with Mirai-chan J-List loves to help you get closer to Japan, and have always ...

How My Life as a Hentai Translator Began Today visual novel games are popular around the world, but it wasn't ...

I started studying Japanese at SDSU back in 1988. When a person learns a new language, they actually develop a ...

For those unfamiliar with the Japanese concept of goroawase (語呂合わせ), meaning pun, or play on words, it's a system in ...

Anime is fun because, in addition to seeing stories of shield heroes and raccoon girls doing battle in exotic isekai worlds, ...

It kind of goes without saying, but anime isn’t always the best place to learn Japanese from. This is because ...

The other day my daughter sent me a funny graphic titled The Internet Taught me Japanese that listed some ridiculous Japanese/English word ...

The Winter 2019 anime season is wrapping up, and I'm enjoying watching the final episodes of each series I've been ...