Tag: Japanese language

I've written before about how people who are bilingual actually develop separate personalities for each language, and it's interesting to ...

The J-List crew had fun at our official company New Year's Party on Friday, consuming lots of good food and ...

How would you feel if the government lost your Social Security records, so that years of work and payments into ...

If English is your native language, make sure you give your parents a big hug next time you see them: ...

When J-List started our popular "Reserve Subscription" magazine service a decade ago, we had no idea how popular it would ...

One interesting difference between Japan and the West is the use of hanko, or name stamps, when indicating approval on ...

The story of the Chinese Zodiac is one that's as familiar to Japanese children as Noah's Ark is in the ...

Among the fun things we're doing here in Las Vegas, we took the kids to see Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition ...

Every language represents different challenges to learners. If I were to study a Romance language like Spanish, I'd need to ...

The other day I sat my family in front of the TV to watch Up, the fantastic film by Disney/Pixar, ...

The other day I was watching a BBC documentary on ancient history, because BBC documentaries are awesome -- I hope ...

Each year the organization that publishes the Standardized Kanji Test announces the "kanji of the year," the character that best ...

When you start to learn Japanese, the first thing you need to tackle is hiragana, the basic writing system that ...

There are many benefits of learning Japanese. You get to interact with some of the friendliest people in the world ...

Raising kids in Japan inevitably means guiding them through juken, or "taking an important test." Both my kids had to ...

I've written before about how Japan seems to be a very harmonious place, where people are more or less on ...

Because the Japanese generally study six years of English during junior high and high school, there's a tendency for English ...

The Japanese love to take standardized tests, and many people use them as a tool to better themselves over the ...

It's fun to watch anime and pay attention to the various character archetypes that show up. Like the ojosama (rich ...

During my time in Japan, I've been able to observe some of the more interesting traits of the females around ...

At J-List, we like to encourage interest in learning Japanese, since it's such a rewarding language to study whether you're ...

One fact about learning Japanese I've written about before is the odd "duality" your brain starts to perceive. In general, ...

I've achieved a small milestone in my life, finally finishing the first manga I ever picked up. The series was ...

One of the themes I cover a lot is how there always seems to be a "right" way of doing ...