What’s your Japanese missing?
Gitaigo—擬態語 (ぎたいご)—power!
Of course, communicating in Japanese—or in any other language—requires a variety of tools. Sometimes you need to be polite, sometimes you need to write, sometimes you need …
The big question on the typical Japanese learner’s mind is: Is it even possible to learn so many kanji?
The next question (and the main question for everyone else) is usually: Can learning kanji be fun?
The answers to …
First things first, is there even such a thing as Christmas in Japan?
Well, Santa also comes to Japan (kind of).
But if by “Christmas” you mean the whole family gathered around the tree, hanging gold and red decorations while …
Have you ever channel-hopped around Japanese TV?
I’m imagining you ended up doing some nearly endless zapping—scared and perplexed by all those people screaming and waving their hands in the air while speaking a language that seems to have …
