When you're not saving the Mushroom Kingdom from blood-thirsty turtles, you can use your uneducational Nintendo DS to study, improve, and practice your Japanese. There are several "games" out there to help you. Of course, … [Read more...]
When learning Japanese, you can get by for a few years without worrying about transitive and intransitive verbs. As things start making sense, though, you'll begin noticing that there are verbs that sound and look similar, … [Read more...]
In America, we tend to be encouraged to be show our individualist side, take initiative, tell people about our accomplishments, and stick out as much as possible from the rest of society. That's all fine and dandy, I have … [Read more...]
If you can speak English (fluently), then you have no excuse. You should be able to pronounce everything in Japanese, and pronounce it nearly correctly (with the exception of the 'R' sound, but even that isn't too bad). If … [Read more...]
For some reason I've been getting a lot of emails regarding this subject lately. There are a lot of people out there learning Japanese on their own who don't know what to do first. Of course, there isn't a set way to start … [Read more...]
There are so many reasons as to why people are learning Japanese. There are some great ones, some good ones, and some really really bad ones. Granted, my list below is all my opinion. I'm sure others have different ideas, … [Read more...]