Japanese apologies can be incredibly nuanced.
It’s important to know which one to use when and when to use a…
We talk about animals a lot more than we realize: We have our lion’s share of animal idioms, we give…
You’ve probably seen blog titles like “Get Fluent in an Hour!” and “Learn 5,000,000 Kanji in Two Days!”
I talk…
Typing is practically second nature to us these days. We’re texting, writing essays, working online gigs, exchanging ideas and sometimes…
In a nutshell, katakana uses characters to represent syllables (instead of single letters like an alphabet) and it’s used primarily…
We all use filler words such as “like” and “um” in our native tongue, and it’s very much the same…
Japanese is a beautiful language—and one of the reasons why is because there are numerous ways to say “I love…
Why are there so many English words that look completely different than they sound? English pronunciation can be so complicated…
Japanese punctuation, also known as 約物 (やくもの) — yakumono, includes all the written marks in Japanese that aren’t numbers, (かな)…
After several years in Japan, I figured, “Okay, I can speak enough Japanese to get around, follow conversations and make… 
