I've been known in the past to say you can't learn Japanese from anime... and that's still quite true. The amount of people out there who watch thousands of hours of (admittedly addicting) anime under the pretense that … [Read more...]
Last week, John wrote the post "How To Gain Time And Be More Productive." When he was drafting his post, I sent him my own list of productivity things that I wrote up previously for the summer interns to teach them about … [Read more...]
For a while now, I’ve felt like I have a lot more free time than my friends and acquaintances. And yet, I still feel like I am incredibly productive. How is this possible? Mad skills? Superhuman intelligence? Maybe. But … [Read more...]
Eventually you're going to graduate. You're not going to be in Japanese class forever. And since you already know how to survive the classroom, you need to know what to do afterwards. So what do you do once you don't have … [Read more...]
A while back I stumbled across a great website by the name of Tower of Babelfish. Their front page has a bunch of pictures of fugus, so that in itself is enough to make them awesome in my book. Anyway, the guy running the … [Read more...]
I'm sure you've seen people in TV shows or movies say itadakimasu (いただきます） before digging into a meal. Maybe you've been with a Japanese person who's said it. Maybe you've even said it yourself. But what does it really … [Read more...]