Tag: Japanese language

One of the first things you do when learning a foreign language is, of course, to investigate all the "naughty" ...

One of the more useful features of the Internet is the ability to search for information, and this works the ...

The roles of men and women in Japan can be quite different from in the West, for example the general ...

I continue to enjoy my time back home, doing San Diego things like going to the beach and the desert. ...

When you learn a language as different from English as Japanese is, you have to get used to concepts not ...

Every once in a while I like to revisit the rules of Japanese pronunciation, since the language can be tricky. ...

It was reported last week that the Japanese Diet had passed a new law that outlawed various forms of Internet ...

The Japanese, of course, spend a lot of energy learning English, with most taking six years of the language, or ...

Recently I wrote about a class of four-character compound words that are fun for students of Japanese to learn because ...

It's always fun to see what natural coincidences occur between languages. A Swedish friend of mine who's married to an ...

One of the most useful words of Japanese is sumimasen, which generally corresponds to "excuse me," though like most aspects ...

The Japanese language has a lot of unique features, like its syllable-based pronunciation system in which ka, ki, ku, ke ...

Life is a little more fun when you know some Japanese, whether it's to communicate with nihonjin who can't use ...

Last time I wrote about the word gohan, which is Japanese for steamed rice that's ready to eat. (Uncooked rice ...

With a sentence structure and grammar unlike anything used in the West along with three different writing systems, learning the ...

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

The Japanese language naturally has elements that are very different from Western languages, like a formalized system of polite speech ...

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

If you've read a few novels by James Clavell, you might come away with the impression that Japanese are highly ...

I often think the themes in anime and games must be potentially confusing to some viewers, even when everything is ...

You probably don't think of Japanese foods like omurice (an omelet served over rice with a ketchup heart drawn on ...

Dialects are part of the wonderfully complex world of human language, and Japanese has many distinct dialects in use, although ...

One interesting aspect of the Japanese language is its "vertical" nature, with different words used in different situations depend on ...

There's no way around it: alcohol is often an important part of social life in Japan, and there's even a ...