| It’s very hard to understand Japanese in the beginning because the structure of sentences is so completely different from English. So, unlike learning French, Spanish, or other languages with…

| In Japan, it’s very important to know a person’s social standing, as it affects the language you use when you talk to that person. This is why Japanese people…

| We received the above good question by email the other day, that we thought we should probably explain better, so we’ll be adding this information to our FAQ shortly,…

| On the surface, the English phrase “more or less“ looks like it should be the equivalent of the Japanese word 多少 (“tashou“, made up of the kanji for “many“…

| The latest version of the 日本国語大辞典 (Nihon Kokugo Daijiten, Shogakukan’s Japanese Dictionary, and the largest of all the Japanese-Japanese dictionaries) has over 500,000 words listed. How are students of…

| Japanese adjectives have very strict rules. There are only two kinds of adjective:1. “い” adjectives (adjectives ending in the character “i”)おいしい (oishii, delicious)青い (aoi, blue)鋭い (surudoi, sharp)These adjectives can…