Bob Dylan, esteemed Japanese linguist Languages are always changing. The English that you and I speak today is almost completely different than that English people spoke a hundred years ago, and it's even a little … [Read more...]
So you've passed JLPT 1. You're a master of Japanese. People point and stare due to your Japanese abilities. You start feeling worthless. There's an emptiness in your heart. What is there left to do? Is this it? Is this as … [Read more...]
I read about this strategy on Lifehacker (you can read the whole thing here) about a week ago, and thought it would be particularly useful for kanji (and vocab) learning. Learning a new language isn't so much about the … [Read more...]
Say you booked a last minute trip to Japan. Then, soon after that, you quickly realize that you don't speak a word of Japanese (let alone a hundred words). For all of you people out there (or, for all of you beginners of … [Read more...]
Passing the JLPT at any level requires being able to read some Japanese and of course the best way to learn to read is well....reading stuff. The problem with reading is that it's really hard. For most of us below the … [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...]