Jalup Intermediate
Learn how to use monolingual definitions and build upon your base knowledge using these 1,000 Japanese-Japanese sentences.
Continue reading →Learn how to use monolingual definitions and build upon your base knowledge using these 1,000 Japanese-Japanese sentences.
Continue reading →Japanese humor is funny (surprise). It comes in all different forms, from cheap slapstick, to short skits, to long joke setups, to detailed storytelling. To foreigners, some of it may seem a bit outdated, or cheesy, or just weird. Of course just like humor of your own country, there is plenty of bad humor. Unfunny people are more common than funny people, and this includes … Continue reading →
Use polite Japanese when you want to be polite. Use casual Japanese when you want to be casual or rude. Simple. And then one more just to mess with your inner Japanese order: Use polite Japanese to be rude. This is why Japanese gets more amazing the deeper you dive. Who would’ve thought? Now some of you may know that using polite Japanese can make … Continue reading →
If anything deserved celebration (お祝い), it would definitely be school lunch (給食). There is a school lunch national holiday (学校給食記念日) on 12/24, which is perfect because I don’t believe there really is anything else going on around that time. But one day isn’t enough, so a month later from 1/24, there is a full school lunch week (全国学校給食週間). So what festivities could possibly be held … Continue reading →
お前 (Omae) is the Japanese word for “you” that is considered very rude. You’ve seen it all over anime and action movies and you get it. Save it for your enemies. Otherwise don’t use it. Maybeee if you are being “one of the boys,” with a group of guy friends, you’ve heard it’s okay to use. But with a girl? You are better off not showering … Continue reading →
In case you need to shed some tears (quite possibly when seeing you have 500 Anki reviews due today), Japanese has a wide range of crying words for you to choose from. But what really stands out is a 3-pack of tears based on changing one sound. Do you want to cry (泣く) with: ほろほろ (horohoro) ぽろぽろ (poroporo) ぼろぼろ (boroboro) And if these weren’t confusing … Continue reading →
Foreign sport names in Japanese? Easy. Besides 野球 (やきゅう) for baseball, they are almost all in katakana, and they all sound fairly close to their original pronunciation. But you may be wondering why baseball is one of the few foreign sports that has kanji. The truth? Many did. Except the foreign name just stuck better. When foreign sports were introduced to Japan, they were given … Continue reading →
Regardless of whether you believe Japanese is easy, or difficult, or you have no opinion on the matter at all, a definite remains. It starts off easy, and gets more complex the further you go. Learning こんにちは (hello) is easier than learning 俺を殺さんでくれ! (Don’t kill me!) If Japanese was a game, what would the end of it be? Becoming fluent? Is this really an end? … Continue reading →