Tag: Japanese language

Well, we're done with another Anime Expo, and this one was loads of fun as usual. We greeted many fans ...

We've finished the first day at Anime Expo, and we're all incredibly tired after selling so many awesome products from ...

I went to Japan in 1991, happy to finally put all the Japanese I'd studied at SDSU to some use ...

One interesting aspect of Japan is the many ways its language has changed since the 1868 Meiji Restoration, which abolished ...

I once saw an interesting thread on Japan's ubiquitous BBS 2ch entitled, "Things Japanese people do abroad that mark them ...

One day I took my son out for a bowl of gyudon, steamed beef over rice, the most popular form ...

Language has many uses, including communicating great ideas, recording the events of history and ordering pizza. It also helps define ...

We’re happy to be carrying the “Moekanji” cards, an awesome way to master the first year of kanji by harnessing ...

During the two months I'll be here in the U.S., I've got a long list of things I need to ...

Even before my wife and I became parents, we knew we wanted to give our children the gift of bilingualism. ...

A few weeks ago I went with my son to an onsen hot spring, which is a rarity these days ...

It's fun to delve into history and see what interesting people you can find, like Nakahama "John" Manjiro, the first ...

There are many powerful images of summer in Japan, including visiting the Tanabata festival while wearing a yukata, lightning fireworks ...

There are certain paradoxes you encounter when dealing with Japan. For example, we often think of the country as a ...

That Steven Spielberg, he's really good at making movies -- you could even say he's "Jaws." In Japanese, the word ...

I get a lot of questions from readers interested in working in Japan, usually as a teacher of English as ...

Although I've been in Japan for more than 20 years, there are some things I've never really mastered, like eating ...

Yesterday I took a trip to Takasaki to visit the local branch of the Tokyo Immigration Office. I was there ...

All languages use onomatopoeia, words based on sounds, and some examples in English are bark, oink, crash, click, snap, clap, ...

One subject I write about a lot is the great interest the Japanese seem to take in what foreigners visiting ...

For a country of such famous subtlety and nuance, in which the subjects of sentences are usually left off because ...

Are French people Buddhists? Are the Germans lonely? Are the British particularly heroic, and do Americans eat lots of rice? ...

I've been a student of Japanese since that first day in 1987 when I started Higurashi-sensei's class at SDSU. (There ...

Like everyone, I'm a big fan of using Internet search to artificially raise my IQ, finding information or verifying it ...