Tag: kanji

Regular customers know that J-List sells awesome Japanese calendars every year. This year we've got a great line-up of anime ...

The Best Way to Learn Japanese is the JLPT One thing I'm passionate about is the Japanese language. Learning Japanese ...

With the announcement that a third season of the hit school romance drama Yahari Ore no Seishun Love Comedy wa Machigatteiru, ...

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

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 ...

Hello from "the land of kawaii and sugoi," Japan! J-List is in full Christmas mode, packing and shipping hundreds of ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

It's well known that the Japanese are an extremely polite people, and this politeness is actually infused into their language. ...

Every once in a while I like to revisit the rules of Japanese pronunciation, since the language can be tricky. ...

The Japanese language naturally has elements that are very different from Western languages, like a formalized system of polite speech ...

You probably don't think of Japanese foods like omurice (an omelet served over rice with a ketchup heart drawn on ...

Back when I was an English teacher. I had some interesting discussions with my students about why they wanted to ...

With any language, there are certain words that are guaranteed to cause problems for foreigners -- our brains excel at ...

The Japanese language has three writing systems to communicate the written word: hiragana, the syllable-based system used for expressing basic ...

The Chinese writing system, kanji, is an inseparable part of the Japanese language, the same way Latin or Greek is ...

Kanji is the primary writing system used in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Japan. In the case of Japanese, kanji ...

Each year the organization that publishes the Standardized Kanji Test (and the kanji practice for the Nintendo DS) announces the ...

Sometimes it's fun to learn how concepts in one language are implemented in another. One word of Japanese I like ...