Happy Halloween, everybody. To celebrate the occasion, I thought you might enjoy these 5 scary Japanese things that will educate and entertain you, hopefully a little bit. At the very least, it will show you that Japan … [Read more...]
When I started making the "Little Victories" lessons switch on TextFugu, I realized that even though I'm just changing things over on TextFugu, the entire concept of "little victories" can be used by anyone learning … [Read more...]
In a couple hours at 1:40pm Pacific Time, I'll be live on BBC Radio (sorry, no idea which one... people tell me it's probably #4, though) talking about "Character Amnesia" (or for us Tofugu-folk, "Kanji Amnesia"), so I … [Read more...]
You know how it's hard to quit bad habits? Biting your nails, drinking, eating too many cookies, yadda yadda (sure, you could take it to be the Seinfeld reference if you want)... But I bet you didn't realize you have a ton … [Read more...]
Did you make it past that highly distracting image of the butterfly? Whew... then you might not need this article... or maybe you do? We can all learn how to be more motivated and inspired, and we're all human in that … [Read more...]
It's the debate of the century! (That, and people keep asking me on e-mail, so I thought I should just write a post about it). If given a choice, should you learn Japanese from a native Japanese speaker, or from a … [Read more...]