Tag: Learning Japanese

When you learn a language as different from English as Japanese is, some things are going to be challenging, such ...

Perhaps more than any other people, the Japanese import words from other languages for their daily use, nearly always taking ...

Some languages are similar to each other, such as the Romance Languages that share features like genders for nouns, or ...

The Japanese love movies, and watch a lot of them. Happily for gaijin like myself, they usually prefer watching U.S. ...

Children are very creative, and it seems there's nothing that a child is incapable of imagining, especially when it comes ...

Have you ever strolled into a coffee shop an ordered an "American"? Although green tea seems as popular a drink ...

For some reason, living in Japan robs a person of the ability to open the hood of their car. When ...

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

It's once again that time most feared by foreigners living in Japan: election season, when white-gloved Japanese politicians drive around ...

Lightning strikes! Twice before the J-List office has had the bad luck of being struck by lightning, frying our main ...

There are many ways to approach an understanding of Japan, through the classical aspects of the country, through its music, ...

Hello, all. It's mid-week and we're all doing fine. Although I got to work late today, I'm ahead of schedule ...

Hello all. I am still in San Diego, enjoying the January warmth, which until I got here was the January ...

Japan can be a very uniform place: because things like education and transportation policy tend to get decided on a ...

Hello and Happy Monday from your friends in Japan!It is interesting to observe the differences between Japan and the U.S. ...

Hello from Japan, where stores play Auld Lang Syne to signal to customers that the store is about to close.Den ...

Hello again from Japan, home of cars with unique English names like the Honda "That's."I often think that the U.S. ...

Hello and Happy Friday from all of us in Japan!One of the coolest "needless items" that can be found Japan ...

Hello again from all your friends at J-List!In my general overview of the Japanese language and collection of advice for ...

Hello and Happy Friday from your friends in Japan! I think that everyone should pick a country and go live ...

Hello from Japan, where some English words don't always mean what you think they mean -- for example, a "manicure" ...

Hello and TGIF from Japan! Although you may think of certain foods as sushi, sashimi, tempura and sukiyaki as popular ...

Hello and TGIF from all of us in Japan! It's Friday in Japan, and I'm taking a rare day off ...

Hello again from a very hot Japan! The J-List server change went pretty well. There was a bit of a ...