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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 dialects
Japanese dialects are often separated into two categories of eastern and western. But in reality, there are many variations and even some types of spoken ways that are not strictly dialects at all but completely different forms of the Japanese language family.
It can be confusing to understand various people from different prefectures and Japanese people are often very interest...
Traditional Japanese businesses
Japan is a country with old age customs and a rich culture of businesses and merchants that have been around for a very long time.
There are more than 50,000 businesses that are over 100 years old. Of those, about 4,000 of them have been running for more than 200 years.
As you can imagine, with a history of business stretching back so far, there are some interest...
Imported words in Japanese
Gairaigo are loan words or imported words into Japanese of foreign origin. Many of them come from English and Chinese but there are some words from other European languages too.
In Japanese these words are usually written in the katakana phonetic script, but some have Kanji readings attached to them which are often known as 'ateji'.
In this blog for language learners,...
Japanese old sayings and proverbs
There are countless Japanese proverbs. Some come originally from Chinese ancient texts, and others are translations of universal proverbs that have origins in Europe or Shakesperean wisdom.
Yet, some other Japanese proverbs are derived from the unique Japanese culture, Zen Buddhism and just old adages that ring true even over the stretch of time.
Many Japanese ...
