Tag: Learning Japanese

One of the challenges in learning Japanese is tackling kanji, which is not easy for Westerners, as it's a very ...

Leave it to Japan to turn something as simple as "yes" and "no" into something more complex than it needs ...

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

One interesting aspect of learning Japanese is tackling the complex world of yomoji jukugo, a class of four-character compound words ...

You've been in Japan too long if you "teach" someone your phone number. In Japanese, you'd usually use the phrase ...

When I was studying Japanese back in the 1980s, I had a real problem finding tools to help me learn, ...

When a member of one language group learns to speak another language, the laws of phonetics decree that he or ...

In Japanese, there's a class of polite phrases that are useful to memorize since they're used quite almost daily. One ...

Like other languages, Japanese comes in various dialects. Some of these are regional, like "standard" Tokyo speech or the more ...

The J-List crew had fun at our official company New Year's Party on Friday, consuming lots of good food and ...

When you start to learn Japanese, the first thing you need to tackle is hiragana, the basic writing system that ...

There are many benefits of learning Japanese. You get to interact with some of the friendliest people in the world ...

When I came to Japan in 1991, I brought with me a large body of knowledge of Japan's popular culture, ...

I often talk about the various unique aspects of Japanese, in part because I just think languages are cool, but ...

At J-List, we like to encourage interest in learning Japanese, since it's such a rewarding language to study whether you're ...

One fact about learning Japanese I've written about before is the odd "duality" your brain starts to perceive. In general, ...

I've achieved a small milestone in my life, finally finishing the first manga I ever picked up. The series was ...

One odd thing about learning Japanese is getting used to revised versions of words from your native language. The Japanese ...

One of the first words anyone studying Japanese learns is honto, which means "really" or "truly," and whenever a gaijin ...

The Japanese system of phonology is a unique one based on syllables, for example allowing for the sounds ka, ki, ...

Each language is special, with unique features that may cause confusion for speakers of other languages. For example, Romance languages ...

The other day I bought an Initial D driving game for my Playstation 3, which is fun since the mountains ...

One of the skills you need to acquire when you come to live in Japan is the ability to deal ...

It's interesting to see what kinds of cultural issues you can learn about from anime. I'm currently hooked on Toradora, ...