Monthly Archives: February, 2010
JapanGaku is Splitting Dumb Otaku
This blog was started over a year ago, originally, to be an outlet where I can talk about anime, manga, and j-drama plus other otakuness. Since I went more and more into learning about Japan itself and the Japanese language. As I did that though I moved away from my original goal of blogging about [...]
Can You Really Play in Japanese?
The word for “play” in Japanese does not necessarily have the same context in Japanese as it does in English.
In English when we think play we think, in general, we think games or sports. From tennis and golf to video games or mind games.
The word 遊ぶ (あそぶ) can mean up to three main things.
to play
to [...]
