LingQ (pronounced “link”) is a language learning platform that I’ve been using for over a year now and since I often recommend it to other people, I thought that it was about time to provide an explanation on how I … Read more
Many of you are working on improving your spoken Japanese by studying the four pitch accent patterns. But do you have a good way of looking up the correct one for each new word you learn? If not, then don’t … Read more
How many of you have been told that Asian languages are the hardest to learn because they are all tonal languages? What exactly does that mean? And since it’s from Asia, is Japanese a tonal language too? Well the short … Read more
One of the things I hear a lot is that, “you have to move to Japan to become fluent in Japanese.” In other words, to master the language, you have to learn Japanese by immersion. But that’s not true as … Read more