I've always been interested in how the human mind changes. I took a class in college that talked about how the brain had changed at different points in society; people's minds changed with the invention of the written … [Read more...]
Japanese can be a tough language to get into. Not because it's a hard language to learn, necessarily, but because there are a bunch of mental barriers and misconceptions. Koichi's talked a bit about this before, but … [Read more...]
Sometimes it's the little things that matter. A few weeks ago, I was reading The Most Human Human, a book about artificial intelligence, linguistics and chatbots. One of the most interesting things I learned from this … [Read more...]
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...]
A lot of people don't know this, but the Japanese language is actually a big mishmash of several not-Japanese languages put together. At one time though, a long long time ago, the Japanese language was a slightly less … [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...]