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...
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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.
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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 ...
Japanese alphabets The Japanese language is often known as being one of the most difficult languages to learn since it has not one but three different alphabets — hiragana, katakana and kanji — which can be differentiated both by the method of writing them, and their uses. In this weekly blog from one of the Japanese teachers at JOI, Itaya sensei, she explains some great language learning tips t...