Tag: Japanese language

Grammatically, Japanese is quite interesting, seemingly unrelated to all other languages, though one theory suggests a link to languages like ...

The Japanese are masters when it comes to committing information to memory, like the man who memorized pi to 100,000 ...

When you study a foreign language, it's natural to want to learn the "naughty" words first, but there's just one ...

Japan is an island nation and is thus naturally closed off from the rest of the world, both geographically as ...

What color is the sun? You might answer that it's yellow, or orange, or white. However, when asked this question ...

When studying a language, it's not uncommon to encounter a word that that's difficult to translate on a 1-to-1 basis. ...

After 4 years of language study at SDSU and nearly 23 years of living in Japan, I'm as bilingual as ...

My wife and I naturally wanted to raise our two kids to be bilingual in English and Japanese. I always ...

While Japan generally imitates the legal framework of the West, one big difference is the use of 判子 hanko, or ...

I received a request in my Twitter feed from a customer who was studying Japanese in preparation for a visit ...

When I decided to minor in Japanese back at SDSU, I had to choose one Japan-related elective class in addition ...

If you're studying Japanese or plan to, there's a good chance you'll need to take the Japanese Language Proficiency Test ...

Living in a foreign country means more than just learning that country's language. It also means subtly taking the local ...

There are many approaches to studying a foreign language, including the Communicative Method, stressing verbal communication with other students, the ...

When I was in the U.S. I played with Apple's new iPhone in an Apple Store and immediately knew I ...

I watch more than a little late-night Japanese TV, and I enjoy its light- hearted goofiness. The other night I ...

I saw a report in the news that said that 40% of private universities in Japan had failed to fill ...

Sometimes part of the fun of studying a language like Japanese is "surfing" the linguistic elements that are different from ...

The money used in Japan is the yen, written with the kanji 円 en which means "circle." Yen comes as ...

Sometimes I think my family would make the basis for an interesting 4-koma manga series along the lines of Darling ...

There's a category of four-syllable (or four kana) words used here that are so loaded with meaning they boggle the ...

One reason I like studying a foreign language like Japanese is the way it teaches you about your own brain, ...

Kanji is one of three writing systems used to write Japanese, used to express advanced cognitive concepts in sentences. (The ...

While there are many innovative ways of studying Japanese, including self-study programs with flashcards and textbooks, online study programs and ...