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...]
Ahhh, today's blog post isn't so much of a post, but an announcement of a new addition to our Guide library. It could easily be its own post, but we felt it is more appropriate to segregate it into a guide. About a … [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...]
Most languages have different ways of writing letters and characters. In English, there's not only printed script, but cursive, and a million different fonts and variants thereof, and people are constantly churning out new … [Read more...]
Japan has had many different names in its time. We in America are lucky. We just have "America," "The United States," and "The United States Of America." I don't think we've really been called much else, at least not as an … [Read more...]
When you're sitting there writing or typing something, you may take for granted the little things... little things like periods, commas, and quotation marks. That's cool - they only hold together everything a sentence … [Read more...]