Tag: Japanese language

The Japanese language is very different from any Western language, and just as English speakers need to get used to ...

When Japanese couples get ready to have a child, they naturally start making lists of possible baby names. While most ...

Kanji are the Chinese characters which were imported into Japan around the 5th century A.D. Unlike the hiragana and katakana ...

One thing that surprised me about the Japanese was how superstitious many people here are, and there are many beliefs ...

Part of learning a foreign language involves internalizing its phonetic system, and that can take time, especially when the language ...

Japan is a unique country in the way that traditional architecture, clothing and other elements of daily life exist side-by-side ...

I've written before about how effectively studying a language requires certain things. A real desire to learn is important, as ...

One famous aspect of the Japanese language is its vagueness and subtlety of meaning. For example, passive speech is used ...

All languages change and evolve over time, and Japanese is certainly no different. There was no written language in Japan ...

I've learned some things about the Japanese people during my time here, which I thought I'd share with you. First, ...

J-List has been bringing you interesting and random products from Japan since 1996, selling everything from our famous "Looking for ...

It's got to be a challenge for anime creators to come up with fresh and interesting characters for fans to ...

Every language has dialects, and Japanese is no different. I've heard that since Japanese people are more likely to stay ...

The Japanese do their best when it comes to learning English, with most taking six years in junior high and ...

Each language has its own unique phonetic features and potential for language play, some of which are picked up by ...

Well, my little trip to the U.S. has come to an end, and it's time to head back to Japan. ...

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

Foreigners are fascinated by kanji characters because they're so different from anything we use -- the idea of capturing complex ...

Hello from Japan, where the words "not by the hair of my chinny-chin-chin" mean something very different.In addition to writing ...

Making errors when speaking a foreign language comes with the territory, and smart language learners will do what they can ...

If you watch anime in Japanese at all, one word you may have learned is suki which means "like," usually ...

Just as in the West, Japanese parents-to-be obsess over what name to give their new baby. In addition to reading ...

It's fun to study random bits of Japanese culture, like the way children who want the weather to be good ...

This has certainly been a harrying week for violent protests. The Japanese government's purchase of the Senkaku Islands from their ...