Learning any foreign language well takes an extraordinary amount of dedication and effort. For many people, they “wish” they could speak Japanese (or any other language) but in reality, they don’t …
Language Acquisition and Comprehensible Input
The Problem With Academic Methods I’ve studied languages virtually my entire life. The grade school I attended required mandatory, albeit simplistic, French lessons. I studied German in high …
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Getting Started Learning Verbs
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 …