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Japanese Ghost Stories to Help Your Language Studies

20 Aug, 2018 2 min read 1 Person loves this

Japanese is said to be heavily context reliant, which means that the circumstances around a conversation greatly influences what is said.  Whether it is through body language or the use …

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Japanese Honorifics: How To Act Polite in Japan

06 Aug, 2018 5 min read 1 Person loves this

Politeness can be a very big issue in Japan, and the Japanese language displays this. Japanese honorifics can be fairly complex and to fully go over the system is very …

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An Introduction to Japanese Onomatopoeia

Japanese Onomatopoeia: A Guide

16 Jul, 2018 4 min read 0 Show some love

Onomatopoeia are words that describe how something sounds. Examples include bam, pow, or meow. In English, you might expect to hear/read onomatopoeia in children’s books about what animals or in  …

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50 Japanese Words You Need to Know Before Going to Japan

50 Japanese Words You Need to Know Before Going to Japan

08 Jun, 2018 5 min read 0 Show some love

Going to Japan? You might be wondering how much Japanese you need to know. In some places you can get by with virtually no Japanese and only English. In others, …

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Let's Eat! Japanese Phrases For Eating Out

Let’s Eat! Japanese Phrases For Eating Out

16 May, 2018 4 min read 0 Show some love

One of the universal aspects of humanity that transcends cultural or language boundaries is hunger. We all must receive nutrients somehow or another. One of our great pastimes of the …

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Japanese Grammar: Get to Grips with the Basics

Japanese Grammar: Get to Grips with the Basics

19 Apr, 2018 5 min read 0 Show some love

The English language and the Japanese language have very strong differences that can seem off-putting to a native speaker of either language to attempt to learn the other. When focussing …

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Japanese Particles: an Introduction

Japanese Particles: an Introduction

22 Mar, 2018 4 min read 0 Show some love

Japanese is a language that is not dependent upon sentence structure so much as it is dependent upon particles (in Japanese, joshi, 助詞). Particles are characters that relate a noun …

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New Year celebration

Happy New Year in Japanese (and Other Greetings)

01 Jan, 2018 2 min read 0 Show some love

New Year’s Day marks the end of weeks of winter celebration. There was Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa and then New Year’s Eve right at the December’s end. Students wrapped up their …

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Is Your Stomach Standing? 8 Common Japanese Idioms

Is Your Stomach Standing? 8 Common Japanese Idioms

30 Nov, 2017 4 min read 0 Show some love

Japanese is a language with a rich reservoir of idioms. There are lists and dictionaries of Japanese idioms out there, which are worth looking at as a reference or just …

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Japanese Sentence Structure Explained

Japanese Sentence Structure Explained

02 Nov, 2017 7 min read 3 People love this

In English, there is a concrete grammatical structure. In a simple sentence, you have the subject, the verb, and the predicate. Of course, this changes as we get into more …

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