Photo by Official US Navy Page Studying Japanese as a native speaker of English can seem so impossible that … Read
Japanese syllable structure and the Past Tense of Verbs
Japanese Language & Culture Guides
Sometimes, when we want to tell you how to do something, a special guide page makes more sense than an article. We hope to help you to understand difficult concepts relating to the Japanese language and culture. We’ll begin to categorize the guides too, as soon as we put more of them back up again!
How To Guess A Kanji’s Stroke Order
Although I'm not the type who believes you have to learn to write kanji by hand (who writes by hand nowadays?) … Read
How To Count Anything In Japanese
The Japanese language has this tricky thing known as "counters." With counters, certain things have certain … Read
Rendaku aka “Sequential Voicing”
If you've studied Japanese for at least a little while, you've probably run across a phenomenon known as … Read
Namba Aruki
In this guide I'm going to show you how to learn and practice Namba Aruki, a walking style from the Edo period … Read
Japanese Gendered Language
In America, 90% of Japanese teachers are women. That's great, because women are good people too, but did you … Read