Tag: Japanese language

I often write about the way Japanese is a vague and nuanced language, and how some of the challenge for ...

At J-List we genuinely want to help people all over the world connect with Japan in a variety of ways, ...

We live in a complex world in which everything around us is becoming more and more global, including marriage. My ...

Do Japanese couples say "I love you" to each other? The short answer is, of course they do, just less ...

Every gaijin who speaks some Japanese knows the agony of accidentally using the wrong word of nihongo at an embarrassing ...

I, of course, am a card-carrying language geek, loving the study of language and all its unique aspects and drinking ...

I wrote last week about the general work situation in Japan, which has an impressively low unemployment rate of just ...

If you've listened to spoken Japanese at all you've probably noticed the word です desu, often pronounced with the last ...

Like many women in Japan, my wife is a fan of 韓流ドラマ hanryu dorama, or South Korean dramas, and every ...

This Saturday, February 22, is 猫の日 neko no hi or Cat Day here in Japan, due to the fact that ...

Transliteration is the act of transcribing words from one writing system to another, and it's an inherently imprecise process because ...

It's interesting to look at some of the less famous Japanese companies that have nevertheless managed to find success around ...

One of my favorite Japanese words is 勤勉 kinben (pronounced keen-ben), which means industrious, diligent, and studious. Just as America ...

The J-List staff had fun at our New Year's Party on Friday, eating and drinking on J-List's tab as a ...

Last night I started watching the new Super Sonico The Animation series, a fun show if you like music, fanservice ...

One of the more well-known linguistic issues related to Japanese is its lack of L/R sound differentiation, which is where ...

All around our city there are these metal plates put up by our local PTA on which are written interesting ...

My kids are haafu, half Japanese and half American, and my wife and I have done our best to ensure ...

Today (December 12) is 漢字の日 kanji no hi or Kanji Day, a day for appreciating the role of Chinese characters ...

Westerners seem hopelessly taken with the mysteries of kanji characters, often choosing to get exotic tattoos with Chinese characters on ...

When you start to learn a language as separate from English as Japanese as, you naturally expect some things to ...

You never forget your first, they always say. My first anime shower scene was the Macross "Do You Remember Love?" ...

We're currently finishing up some construction on the land behind J-List, erecting a concrete wall to keep rainwater from running ...

I often talk about the various unique aspects of the Japanese language, in part because I just think languages are ...