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Every week, a professional Japanese teacher posts a new blog .
The Japanese language or Nihongo, is a complex language with 3 writing methods (hiragana, katakana and kanji) as well as idioms, proverbs, and local dialects, and linguistic idiocynracies. The Japanese teacher blogs in this blog category goes into some of these aspects in detail.
Popular Japanese idioms
Learning Japanese vocabulary and grammar is a great way to start studying Japanese. But sometimes it is useful to know some Japanese idioms as well.
Using the right idioms in your conversation will definitely impress your Japanese friends and co-workers and make your Japanese sound more natural too.
In this blog for Japanese learners., Miyako Fujinawa, a Japanese teacher...
How to study Japanese Kanji
There are many ways to study and memorize Kanji. You can try to learn the radicals or practice the stroke order and write them our repeatedly.
Or you try to learn them organically by making note of all the Kanji you see if you live in an immersive environment.
Or you can do what this teacher recommends. Read this blog to find out the method a Japanese teacher employs...
Translating Japanese words
There are some words in Japanese that are difficult to translate into another language. One of the most often used words in Japanese manga and anime, "Ganbatte!" is one of these words.
It can have a different meaning depending on the situation and the person saying it.
In this blog for Japanese language learners, by Japanese teacher Kumiko Yatabe deals with these mean...
Japanese writing system and Chinese characters
The Japanese word kanji which means Chinese characters is taken from the meaning "Han characters". It forms a vital part of the Japanese writing system which also includes Hiragana alphabet and Katakana characters too.
There are a multitude of Chinese characters used in Japanese and it would not surprise you to know that some are uniquely formed by ...
JOI’s Business Japanese class
JOI's Business Japanese class teaches all you need to know to do business in Japan. It includes essential business manners and key Japanese business jargon and also writing emails and giving presentations.
It is about the latter that Fujinawa sensei, one of the teachers of the Business Japanese classes, introduces in this blog. You can study the vocabulary and Kanji...
