Being an ethnic Chinese person living in Japan, I don’t exactly stand out from the typical Japanese person. Sometimes, I get comments from some of my other gaijin friends that it should be easier for me – after all, in a … [Read more...]
My (friend's) wedding / (my) vacation time in Taiwan has come to a close, and while these three weeks have been a lot of fun, they've also been very educational as well. You see, I wanted to attempt to remember what it's … [Read more...]
English loanwords in Japanese are often a source of amusement for native speakers of English learning Japanese as a second language. There’s so many of them, it seems like if you don’t know a word in Japanese, you can just … [Read more...]
In a couple hours at 1:40pm Pacific Time, I'll be live on BBC Radio (sorry, no idea which one... people tell me it's probably #4, though) talking about "Character Amnesia" (or for us Tofugu-folk, "Kanji Amnesia"), so I … [Read more...]
We've had a lot of "fun" with DragonBall as of late, and after this tip I couldn't help but post this as well. I've seen little bits of this live action Chinese Dragonball knockoff, but not more than a couple of minutes. … [Read more...]