TL;DR You can turn Badly in Love into a full Japanese lesson by watching it with Japanese subtitles on and importing the subtitle track into LingQ with the browser extension. …
TL;DR The best books to learn Japanese depend on where you are. Beginners need structure. Intermediate learners need volume. Advanced learners need authentic material. This guide covers all three stages. …
If you’ve ever tried to learn Chinese or Japanese, you already know the wall every learner eventually hits: the characters. Mandarin Chinese uses thousands of hanzi. Japanese layers thousands of …
TL;DR The best Japanese podcasts depend on your current level and what your personal interests are. Absolute beginners should start with shows that use slow speech and high-frequency vocabulary. Intermediate …
Japanese numbers look simple until you try to use them. You start by memorizing one through ten. Easy enough. Then, when counting three dogs, you realize that the word for …
Can you learn a language, specifically Japanese, with Netflix? As with many resources, the answer depends on how you use it. Netflix offers a wide variety of series, films, and …
We all know about Sally and how she sells seashells by the seashore. This is just one example of a tongue twister. Many try to repeat a tongue twister until …
Podcasts are a great way to improve your listening and comprehension skills while learning a new language. Having the ability to listen to a language is convenient, enjoyable, and essential …
Learning a new language is no easy feat, especially Japanese. It can take years to even half-decently learn a language. That’s why the question, “how hard is it to learn …
Hellos and Goodbyes are normally the first thing we learn to say in every new language. At first, saying ‘goodbye’ might seem pretty straight-forward until you dig a bit deeper. …
Japanese is a fascinating and rich language with a long history. It’s also a language full of cute words and expressions to describe just the right feeling. Today we’ve got …
Anime is one of those cultural phenomenons that doesn’t seem to go away. Dragon Ball, Pokémon, and Naruto are not only popular in Japan, they’ve also cemented their names at …
To the untrained eye, the Japanese language can look quite puzzling, like a quilt made of different textures. The characters don’t all look alike or even similar. The reason for …
Imagine that someone did something nice for you. So, what would you say? Thank you, of course. The answer seems pretty straightforward until you consider all the variations you can …
Does learning to read Japanese need to be hard? As both the regular readers of my blog know, I have been learning Japanese on LingQ this year, mostly to see how hard it is. I wrote some posts on it, if anyone is interested: http://tracesofdodo.blo…
