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Japanese Vocab and Grammar

Japanese • 29 Aug 2023

Using the Japanese Future Tense: How It Works and Ways to Express It

Maybe you’ve heard that there’s no Japanese future tense at all. But even though there is no future tense like…

Japanese • 14 Aug 2023

Japanese apologies can be incredibly nuanced. It’s important to know which one to use when and when to use a…

Japanese • 11 Aug 2023

With more than 120 million Japanese speakers on the planet, it would be surprising if you didn’t know one or…

Japanese • 10 Aug 2023

We talk about animals a lot more than we realize: We have our lion’s share of animal idioms, we give…

Japanese • 28 Jul 2023

Before I traveled to Japan for the first time, everyone assured me that “Everybody speaks English there,” and I wouldn’t…

Japanese • 21 Jul 2023

Adjectives are the crayons of the speech world. They add color and interest to conversations. I learned their importance quickly…

Japanese • 5 Jul 2023

In a nutshell, katakana uses characters to represent syllables (instead of single letters like an alphabet) and it’s used primarily…

Japanese • 26 Jun 2023

We all use filler words such as “like” and “um” in our native tongue, and it’s very much the same…

Japanese • 24 Jun 2023

Japanese is a beautiful language—and one of the reasons why is because there are numerous ways to say “I love…

Japanese • 20 Jun 2023

As a foreigner learning Japanese, you were probably first taught that “why” in Japanese is どうして (doushite). But do you…