Sounds

We have now arrived at the final lesson for the free online course Master the Sound of Japanese. Today I am going to talk a little bit about how emotions affect sounds, and then I am going to provide you … Read more

There are certain aspects of the language that that are important to understand if you want to speak Japanese like a native. I’ve collected some of the most important ones and laid them out below into seven individual steps. These … Read more

In this lesson I’d like to talk about a concept of language learning that I didn’t figure out on my own, but that I learned it from a rather successful polyglot. This idea provides the basis for the tips to … Read more

Today’s lesson is about Japanese contractions – what they are, why they happen, and how you can learning to spot them when you encounter them so that you can then trace them back to their original meaning. These are two … Read more