Nick Hoyt 
Hello everyone, Over the last several months I have been working on creating a bilingual book (EN/JP) to help people read authentic Japanese and learn new words & expressions. Now that project is live on Kickstarter! The full details can … Read more
The Japanese language is both interesting and frustrating. For example, there are a ton of different words that you can use for the same thing. For example, what is people in Japanese? There are so many different answers that I … Read more
In this article I am going to give you everything I’ve learned from my firsthand experience of studying and using Japanese, as well as the best advice I’ve received from dozens of prominent language learners. By the end of it … Read more
Learning kanji is tough, am I right? Maybe I just wasn’t that good at it, but it took me years to learn all 2,136 常用漢字 (jōyō kanji). I used a lot of books in the process, and I still like … Read more
There are a lot of body part names when it comes to humans. Some of the most useful ones have to do with the ten digits attached to our hands. Today we’re going to talk about fingers in Japanese and … Read more