There's More Than "-masu" One of the interesting features of the Japanese language is the way in which the vocabulary used changes to reflect hierarchical relationships in speech. Entire books have …
Getting Started With Shadowing
A very useful habit that I stumbled on almost by accident is that of “shadowing,” in which one listens to and speaks along with native audio. This is one of the highest leverage practices you can …
Finding Your Motivation
How To Light Your Own Fire Without a doubt, learning a language (especially one like Japanese) is a tough slog. The Defense Language Institute lists Japanese as one of it’s “Category IV” languages …
Step One: Learn The Kana
Japanese has three different primary writing systems (four if you count their use of the Roman alphabet, known as “rōmaji”): hiragana, katakana and kanji. Do yourself a favor and learn hiragana and …