Welcome to this week's Sunday Haiku. Each Sunday, spend a few minutes enjoying a haiku or some facet of Japanese culture. Makoto+ Shogun (or Lifetime) members, click here for almost 100 haiku lessons with sound. ( Read more
Improve your Japanese: Motivation
Tips for keeping your motivation for learning Japanese up!
Here are five words related to sleeping in Japanese 1) 昼寝 hirune (afternoon) nap; siesta [昼 hiru (noon; daytime) + 寝 ne (sleep)] 2) 寝不足 nebusoku not enough sleep [寝 ne Read more
A Hiragana Reader from our upcoming Beginner's Bundle - BERI- BERI- SHOSHINSHA. If you know hiragana,...
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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 vocabulary list, no problem! Scroll down to "Vocabulary List" for that and/or download the free PDF (...
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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,...
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If you've wondered what the infinity stones are in Japanese, look no further! It is fairly easy, actu...
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The HUGE kanji on this man's shirt is 糞 This is the kanji one might see ...
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My collection of mysteries, The Agora Letters, is normally $3.99 at Amazon (for Kindle). Until tomorrow, it is .99. If you have Kindle Unlimited, it is free. Click here to c...
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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 phrase with “because”; in Japanese, you often end with because (ので). Just add it after an a...
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