I almost gave up on Japanese once. When I first started self-studying Japanese, I was overwhelmed by the sheer amount of stuff there was to learn. I can even remember that panicky feeling like it was yesterday: in one … [Read more...]
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 … [Read more...]
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 … [Read more...]
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 … [Read more...]
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 … [Read more...]
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 … [Read more...]