To me, one of the more interesting things about learning Japanese is when people say that they start to dream or think in Japanese. That's amazing because not only does it mean that those people are completely engrossed … [Read more...]
Japanese text on the web is a lot like politics and sausage - it's a messy process that nobody should ever have to see. But in the time I've been working at Tofugu, I've had to bear witness to some horrible, horrible … [Read more...]
A year ago today, the fourth-largest earthquake in recorded history hit Japan, followed by a series of tsunami and nuclear meltdowns. I vividly remember watching the disaster unfold over a live video stream, hardly able … [Read more...]
Over on Mutantfrog Travelogue, a post went up earlier this week called "My Japanese sucks and always will." The post talks about how the author, somebody who's a long-time student of Japanese, passed the JLPT 1, and has … [Read more...]
Japanese can be a tough language to get into. Not because it's a hard language to learn, necessarily, but because there are a bunch of mental barriers and misconceptions. Koichi's talked a bit about this before, but … [Read more...]
When it comes to Japanese, I still have a long ways to go and a lot to learn. But, I've had lots of time to learn about learning, make mistakes, and apply plenty of learning theories of my own. Looking back now to when I … [Read more...]