Japanese Vocabulary

Welcome to this week's Sunday Haiku. Each Sunday, spend a few minutes enjoying a haiku or some facet of Japanese culture. Makoto+ Shogun ...

Improve your Japanese: Motivation Tips for keeping your motivation for learning Japanese up!   In the mid-90s when I was a bright-eyed a...

Here are five words related to sleeping in Japanese 1) 昼寝 hirune (afternoon) nap; siesta [昼 hiru (noon; daytime) + 寝 ne (sleep)] 2) 寝不...

A Hiragana Reader from our upcoming Beginner's Bundle - BERI- BERI- SHOSHINSHA. If you know hiragana, give this reader a try! It's FREE!...

I want to give you a brief overview of how Japanese words change depending on the context, however, if you are here just to get a vocabul...

Happy Mother's Day!  Did you know Japan also has a Mother's Day? It is called 母の日 (haha no hi), which, er, literally means, "Mother's Day...

If you've wondered what the infinity stones are in Japanese, look no further! It is fairly easy, actually.  It's all in katakana. (Almo...

The HUGE kanji on this man's shirt is 糞 This is the kanji one might see at a public park, reminding dog owners to pick up their dog's 糞....

My collection of mysteries, The Agora Letters, is normally $3.99 at Amazon (for Kindle). Until tomorrow, it is .99. If you have Kindle Un...

 In today's blog post, let's examine two kind-of unrelated but useful conjunctions: ので and のに. Because—ので node  In English, we start the...

  Wikipedia says the recovery period for jet lag tends to be one day per time zone crossed. Florida to Japan crosses 14 time zones. That...

I came of age regarding learning Japanese in the mid-nineties. Mangajin was on its way out (I discovered that grand magazine a month befo...