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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.
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...
Writing emails in Japanese
With emails becoming the most used form of business communication, it is important to learn how to write emails in Japanese properly. There is a course that you can take at JOI that teaches business Japanese and also how to write a business email.
But this blog is a funny look at how people can make mistakes when writing Japanese. The computer Kanji covert feature can ...
Coffee in Japan
Did you know that Japan is the 4th ranking country in coffee consumption? There are coffee shops and cafes everywhere and also vending machines selling coffee in cans.
Recently, convenience stores also serve freshly ground coffee for a very reasonable price as well. In this blog for Japanese learners by Japanese teacher Yukiko Takane, she looks into the different ways that the wo...
How many Kanji for the JLPT N3?
If you include the Chinese characters from the N4 and N5 level, then the commonly quoted number is about 650 kanji in total that you need to learn in order to pass the JLPT N3.
This blog for Japanese learners includes a fun way to study for this. You can learn almost 50 Kanji this way and it is an interesting pastime during this period of Stay at Home.
Many stude...
