97 Animals in Japanese (with Audio and PDF)
We talk about animals a lot more than we realize: We have our lion’s share of animal idioms, we give…
How to Learn Japanese in 30 Days [Zero to Conversational]
You’ve probably seen blog titles like “Get Fluent in an Hour!” and “Learn 5,000,000 Kanji in Two Days!” I talk…
How to Type in Japanese: Keyboards and Practice Ideas
Typing is practically second nature to us these days. We’re texting, writing essays, working online gigs, exchanging ideas and sometimes…
200+ Katakana Words: Your Introduction to Japanese Loanwords
In a nutshell, katakana uses characters to represent syllables (instead of single letters like an alphabet) and it’s used primarily…
12 Japanese Filler Words to Speak More Like a Native [with Audio]
How often do you say “like” and “um” when you’re speaking to a friend? These little space-fillers are called filler…
77 Ways to Say “I Love You” in Japanese Like a Native Speaker
Japanese is a beautiful language—and one of the reasons why is because there are numerous ways to say “I love…
233 Mispronounced Words in English
Why are there so many English words that look completely different than they sound? English pronunciation can be so complicated…
12 Japanese Punctuation Marks You Need to Know
Japanese punctuation, also known as 約物 (やくもの) — yakumono, includes all the written marks in Japanese that aren’t numbers, (かな)…
