Tag: Learning Japanese

Japanese sentences are peppered with a variety of colorful English phrases, since adding foreign words to one's speech gives it ...

There are many ways to help a program of Japanese study be successful, including taking an active interest in popular ...

Last time I wrote about how the name a person calls another says a lot about their relationship, whether they ...

When you go to an onsen (OWN-sen), a hot springs bath, it's important to have all the essentials with you, ...

Transliteration is the act of moving from one writing system to another, which is never an easy task. When expressing ...

The other day I was riding my bicycle past a steakhouse, and I noticed a sign that promised "Steak & ...

September means the start of university, and I've got quite a few readers in my Twitter feed who have just ...

When you're a white guy studying Japanese in university, a funny thing happens: as you progress in your studies there ...

One word you learn pretty early when studying Japanese is gaman suru (gah-mahn suru) which means to endure or tolerate ...

At J-List, we like to support our readers who want to learn Japanese, whether it's tackling the basics for a ...

Yesterday I went to my local DMV to renew my Japanese driver's license. Back in the "good old days" there ...

Learning a foreign language is a difficult thing, and to do it properly you frankly need to get a little ...

Like Turkish, Basque and Korean, the Japanese language is an "agglutinative" language, which just means that a lot of information ...

I remember when I first started learning Japanese, I wondered how Japanese text entry could work on a computer. I ...

One of the holy grails of speaking a foreign language is thinking in your target language, a process that seems ...

I sometimes look back with fondness on my college days, and the adventure that was learning Japanese in Mrs. Higurashi's ...

One of my favorite images of Japan are the Daruma, the unique red dolls that are seen everywhere around this ...

In my Twitter feed I post various things, including new items added to the J-List site, random anime pictures I've ...

There's more to communication than just words, especially in a country like Japan. Often a negative opinion is expressed indirectly, ...

I wrote last time about how names work in Japanese, and how it can be fun to assign kanji to ...

The Japanese language is very expressive, and there are some interesting phrases one encounters from time to time, which I ...

One thing I like about learning a foreign language like Japanese is the way it helps you to learn how ...

"If Burger King married Dairy Queen, their child would be Jack in the Box." This bit of wisdom was uttered ...

When I started my third year of Japanese at SDSU, there was a new book we were required to buy: ...