It seems that even after years of study, a number of people taking formal Japanese classes and doing self-study don’t get comprehensive coverage of the following particles: しか、さえ、and すら. By “comprehensive”, I mean that, … [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...]
When you're sitting there writing or typing something, you may take for granted the little things... little things like periods, commas, and quotation marks. That's cool - they only hold together everything a sentence … [Read more...]
If you've studied Japanese for a little time or a long time, you've probably run across rendaku. You might not know what it is, just based off the name, but surely it's confused you once or twice. Rendaku means "sequential … [Read more...]
One application which I've used for a long time is Evernote, though I've mostly been collecting and organizing recipes... until now. Just today, as I was scrolling through the Asahi Shinbun, I had an epiphany. I should be … [Read more...]
The other day I stumbled across of a list of "at the same time" grammar points in one of my Japanese text books. I'm studying for the Japanese Proficiency Test, ikkyu level, so all the Japanese I'm learning now either … [Read more...]