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| Here at GenkiJacs we are Cat People or 猫好き（ねこずき）. (That being said, please let us know if they open a dog café any time soon….) Our Pop Culture course…
JapanesePod101 “1 week free study with GenkiJACS Tokyo” ‘s competition winner testimonial
| In February our partner JapanesePod101 did a contest where the winner could study 1 week for free at our Tokyo school. The winner, a very nice student from Thailand,…
壁ドン（Romantically Hit the Wall…）
| Have you ever watched an Anime or a Japanese Drama and witnessed a scene where (usually) a man traps a lady against the wall by stretching out his arm?…
Let us honour our food and … hug?
| Like almost every language, Japanese has some funny and interesting word puzzles. Here are two examples for the more advanced Japanese language students. Can you find the solution? 通(とお)り時(とき)に閉(し)まって、通(とお)らない時(とき)に開(あ)いている物(もの)は何(なに)？…
花見
| As many of you are no doubt aware, late March-early April is the time for the cherry blossom. It is a wonderful time to be in Japan as parks…
Studying – The 気to Success
| Did you get it? “The 気 (KI) to Succes” as in… Ok. We know we’re not funny. It is true, however. In order to master a language, studying is…
Exciting Literature
| What could possibly be more exciting than Japan or Literature? Exactly! The two of them combined together. This is why we would like to present to you five popular…
Onomatopoeia – How to “Sound” More Japanese
| “Onomatopoeia” is the beautiful art of describing things or actions by imitating or creating sounds. While in English and other European languages, they are mostly used to describe actual…
数字世界へようこそ – Welcome to the World of Numbers
| For those of you who already had the pleasure of entering the Japanese “counting-system” during their studies, it probably goes without saying that learning all the different ways of…
Are you a carrot?
| Mistakes are nothing to be ashamed of. They are part of being human. That is to say, everybody makes them and no one can totally escape them. Especially when…