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
Today’s topic is something that very few people knew about when learning Japanese several decades ago, but is becoming a more increasingly popular topic among modern Japanese language learners. What is pitch accent in Japanese? It is both similar to … Read more
Now we get to an interesting part of the Sounds of Japanese. Well actually, it’s all been interesting, but this part is something unique. I’m talking about silent and semi-silent vowels in Japanese. The official name for the phenomenon is … Read more