Okay, fine, so that's a picture of Captain Hindsight and not a picture of Captain Obvious, but it's still sort of the same meessage: In order to know Japanese, Japanese has to be Obvious to you. D'uh. That's pretty obvious … [Read more...]
A lot of people don't know this, but the Japanese language is actually a big mishmash of several not-Japanese languages put together. At one time though, a long long time ago, the Japanese language was a slightly less … [Read more...]
I've never been into the whole castle thing myself (I'm more into Islands full of cats, and things like that), but I know there are a lot of castle buffs out there (as well as a lot of people who don't know they're castle … [Read more...]
Goroawase means "wordplay" but I think it's quite a bit more interesting than that. In English, when I think of "wordplay" I think of comedy's highest and most elegant form of humor: Puns. In Japanese when I think of … [Read more...]
If you've studied Japanese for a little time or a long time, you've probably run across rendaku. You might not know what it is, just based off the name, but surely it's confused you once or twice. Rendaku means "sequential … [Read more...]
I put it up on the Japanese Resources page around a week ago (and it's been on TextFugu a bit before that), but thought I should share it all with you here, since I think it will help a lot of you out. Being able to … [Read more...]