It's pretty common for high school graduates to have a shockingly poor grasp of kanji, yes. Duller kids often struggle with kanji, period, in the same way that many native English speakers struggle with spelling. Everyone who doesn't write by hand on a regular basis is at risk of ...
Matt Wood:In this case, it was my kids who decided on a cat. I was teaching them about programming and making games, and when we were brainstorming ideas, one of them simply suggested, “Hey. What if you got to play as a cat??” So we explored that idea a bit. At that time t...
If I were you,l will learn hiragana and katakana first,and at the same time,I will learn daily simple words.こんにちは はじめまして ありがとうございます ごめんなさい おじゃまします メールしてくださいetc...and next I will try to read some books for kids or mannga.In mann...
On one hand,kids’ showsare an awesome way to get your daily dose of easy Japanese without having to pause every five seconds to look up a word in the dictionary. On the other, anime can be quite challenging for beginners. But who doesn’t enjoy a good one? Armed with the right mind...
Revealing, occasionally awkward, and often hilarious look at how Americans have learned about sex from the early 1900s to the present. Using clips from an astounding array of sex ed films, this captures what it was like for the kids - confusion, shock, embarrassment - and as well for those...
Japanese maples flower in the spring, with tiny little blossoms. Over the summer, the blossoms turn into the little “helicopters” (also known as samaras) we all knew and loved as kids. These seed pods have little “wings” attached to the seed itself, and they spin like the blades of...
Tokyo―Our kids,the Japanese government announced,have forgotten how to behave.They can't he bothered with housework.If they see someone being wronged,they probably look the other way. Few countries have placed more importance on being well―behave in public than Japan.The simplest requests for ...
Okaachan(おかあちゃん) may sometimes be shortened tokaachan(かあちゃん). Just likemama, this word is more child-like in nuance. Little kids usually say this when speaking to their mother. The suffix-chan(ーちゃん) is added when addressing children or someone you are very close to. ...
I’ve been teaching beginner courses in Chinese for more than ten years, but I still remember what it was like to write my first characters. When starting to learn Chinese characters, one of the first questions that pop up is how to learn them. I don’t mean what characters to study,...
Most rich people in Japan are fleeing overseas. They want to educate their kids into English more than Japanese. They are clearly more open-minded than Nihonjinron folks in the country. Other matters aside, measuring in purely in financial terms, “You could buy a Porsche for the money you ...