Category Archives: Featured
Kanji Makes Japanese Easy
Kanji and Japanese aren’t the same. At least that is how I see it in my head, for better or worse. It is very odd to see it that way so it takes some explaining.
One day I plan to learn Chinese after I learn Japanese. Since kanji is from China originally and the Japanese incorporated [...]
The Technology Matsuri
Here are the entries for this December Blog Matsuri. This was a lot of fun and I learned a lot. I definitely think you should check each of them out.
Joshua Zimmerman
Entry: Robot School Girl Horror
Description: This one creeped me out and got me excited, not that way, at the same time. I love robots and [...]
Why my JLPT Fail was Still a Win
Yesterday was JLPT day and I did fail it. Whether it is graded that way or not I am not sure. However, I failed it in my opinion. That being said I would not trade the experience for anything in the world. I am going to include some picture of the trip too so not [...]
Boy Scouts in Japan
The title is a bit misleading, but serves our purposes as a starting point. First I want to bring up that I am an Eagle Scout in the “Boy Scouts of America” and strongly believe in the values, skills and life lessons I have learned in Boy Scouts having been in it for almost 20 [...]
Language Bloopers – Edufire Superpass Contest Giveaway
I am pleased to say I have a free 1 month SuperPass I can give away to someone. So what are the benefits of the Superpass?
SuperPass is $29 a month (or less than $1 a day)
$1 one week trial
With a membership, you get access to unlimited live online teachers.
In class, you can interact with your [...]
AJATT QRG Review – All Japanese All The Time Quick Reference Guide
Khatzumoto finally released the much anticipated, by his readers, Quick Reference Guide to AJATT. As an avid reader of his site and practitioner of AJATT, with my own twist, I was excited to be able to buy this and give it a look.
As a note, like he does, if you read his whole site [...]
Why Your Language Book is Holding Your Japanese Back
Most books for learning are horrible for the long term learner of Japanese. There are several things to take into account when trying to learn Japanese, or any language for that matter, from fluency level to resources, and even how you learn. I want to discuss the importance of learning written language and how most [...]
How To Learn Japanese
This is a presentation my teacher asked me to do. In this post I am going to write out the whole presentation and walk you through the slides instead of just posting the slides. At the end I’ll have the slides to download too. This is probably going to be long as [...]
Unspoken Japanese Culture
It seems that in every society there is a set of rules which need to be followed day-to-day which are intuitive to all. No one speaks of these rules except if a group is doing introspection on society. If someone were to break one of these rules it can be embarrassing or uncomfortable for the [...]
