When it comes to students rating teachers in a classroom, one of the most common things students look at is clarity. "Did I understand what this teacher was teaching me?" "Was the teacher clear in what they're teaching?" … [Read more...]
This is the second article in a series all about "Making Japanese Obvious" where I guide you through various things that will help you to get to the point where Japanese becomes obvious. Why? Because when something is … [Read more...]
Every now and again some famous celebrity sells their soul to Japan for a few million handfuls of yen. In the past, they did not need to worry much about their soul selling escapades being viewed by a western audience. … [Read more...]
Okay, fine, so that's a picture of Captain Hindsight and not a picture of Captain Obvious, but it's still sort of the same meessage: In order to know Japanese, Japanese has to be Obvious to you. D'uh. That's pretty obvious … [Read more...]
Goroawase means "wordplay" but I think it's quite a bit more interesting than that. In English, when I think of "wordplay" I think of comedy's highest and most elegant form of humor: Puns. In Japanese when I think of … [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...]