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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
From the outside, Japanese may seem like one of the most polite languages out there. Because of all the bowing, calm gestures, and Japanese honorifics, you may be shocked to …
If you are about to start a Japanese language learning journey, prepare for a challenging, but wonderful experience. Japanese is a remarkably rich, and it contains concepts that don’t even …
