Most of the world doesn’t speak Japanese. In fact, only 1.8% of the world speaks Japanese, and most of these people live on a series of islands that add up to, approximately, the size of the state of California. If you happen to live outside of this island (statistically, you probably do), then the chances [...]
Eventually you’re going to graduate. You’re not going to be in Japanese class forever. And since you already know how to survive the classroom, you need to know what to do afterwards. So what do you do once you don’t have a schedule or classmates or teachers or homework!? Is it possible to maintain your [...]
Japan uses a lot of loan words from different languages, but you probably already knew that. The nice thing about these words is you can usually tell what they mean. For example, セーター (se-ta-) is “Sweater.” They kind of sound similar. Also, アメリカ (amerika) is “America.” I bet you could figure that out if you [...]
A happy 2013 to all of you! … Okay, enough with that. Let’s get down to business. Every year we run our big sale on New Years. Why? Because it’s a pretty good time to resolve to do something. Also, you’re looking to spend those wads of cash you got from Colonel Sanders for Christmas. [...]
Nobody’s perfect. Everybody misspells a word, makes typos, or some other mistake when writing I like to think that I have a decent grasp on the English language but, as any longtime Tofugu reader knows that despite my best efforts, I still make a ton of typos, weird grammatical errors, and even leave some sentences [...]
Hat tip to the always on top of things Reddit. Looks like a non-Japanese (aka USA, for now) Amazon Kindle store now stocks books in the Japanese language. This opens up some huge opportunities for study, though it does currently have its share of problems. I spent the weekend reading terrible books and trying things [...]
Sometimes we (myself included) need a reminder that time moves in mysterious ways, and that each and every person always has way too much of it whether they think they do or not. As Einstein said, “The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once.” So the question is, how will [...]
