Every time I visit Kyoto and theKyushu RegionI’m reminded ofukiyo. I forget about my phone with its constant notifications and justbe. With its beautifully preserved Edo-era streets, ancient wooden pagodas and incredibly landscaped gardens, it’s effortless for one’s mind to escape to a flo...
For me, the resonances of Japanese words are rather different. For instance, off the top of my head,kimonosprings to mind. But earlier than kimono in my memory is reading aboutorigami, the art of artistic paper folding, in a Reader’s Digest Christmas Annual or some such. I think I man...
It can be tough to wrap your mind around how people can go through life without singular and plural. But just give it a try. It turns out that knowing whether you have one or more than one isn’t as critical as you might think. In Japanese, there is no (regular) use of the ...
Designed with beginners in mind, each article is annotated with word types and hiragana, allowing you to look up unfamiliar words at any time, making learning Japanese no longer difficult. Rich content updated daily to meet the needs of learners at different levels, while also learning about Jap...
Designed with beginners in mind, each article is annotated with word types and hiragana, allowing you to look up unfamiliar words at any time, making learning Japanese no longer difficult. Rich content updated daily to meet the needs of learners at different levels, while also learning about Jap...
The number in parentheses is the number of times the word appears in the corpus. CC100 Find [JA Freq] Freq_CC100 in the dictionary collection. Made by the mind behind arujisho, this uses the CC100 dataset which was made by crawling the web. Coverage is very wide, and there is reason...
Keep these notes in mind, and you’ll conjugate Japanese adjectives with ease: The two types of adjectives in Japanese are i-adjectives and na-adjectives. All conjugations of i-adjectives involve dropping the final i and attaching a new ending. The word “to be” (desu, です) is used ...
The pronunciation doesn’t change based on the combination of words either. For example, if you say [auto] it’ll be pronounced as [a][u][to]. The pronunciation doesn’t become like theautopart of the English word ‘automatic’.
aIt’s never easy to admit(承认)you are in the wrong.We all 1 to know the art of apology(道歉).Think how often you’ve done wrong.Then count how many 2 you’ve expressed clearly you were 3 .You can’t go to bed with an easy mind if you do 4 about it. It' s never easy ...
Peter: Let’s word from the Japanese. Give us the Japanese name for it. Sakura: 親指 Peter: Okay one more time. Sakura: 親指 Peter: And break it down a bit. Sakura: おやゆび Peter: Okay and there is two words in there. Can you give us the two words? Sakura: 親 Peter: Okay...