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2025.03.12
【Interview with a TCJ Student】 A Student’s Journey: Taking Private Lessons Five Days a Week After Early Retirement
This article is for those considering learning Japanese. We had the opportunity to interview one of …
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2025.01.20
【For Beginners】How to Start Learning Japanese
Today, we introduce how to learn Japanese for those who are interested in starting or have just begu…
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2025.01.14
Japanese Words Originating from Martial Arts
The Paris Olympics and the best drama at TV's Emmy Awards “SHOGUN” have brought renewed global atten…
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2024.12.23
Exploring Japanese Number Units: Big and Small
How do you say “ten thousand” or “two million” in Japan. Do you know how to read 0.12 or 1/2? Japane…
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2024.12.20
【A Must-Read for Beginners】7 Similar Japanese Words: Grasp Their Meanings and Nuances!
Shukudai wo tasukeru (helping with homework), Nihongo wo narau (learning Japanese), Haha ni deau (me…
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2024.12.17
Sensei, What is Charao “チャラ男” ? ~Japanese use various onomatopoeia~
Dogs bark with a “wan-wan,” and rain falls with a “shito-shito” sound. Japanese is a language where…
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2024.12.05
Is the Japanese Used in Anime Accurate? Can I Speak Like the Characters?
In this article, we’ll introduce how Japanese is generally spoken in everyday life, using examples …
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2024.11.27
蛇化(Hebi ka)? 蛙化(Kaeru ka)? バット(Batto)? ワンチャン(Wanchan)?… Youth slang beyond just “やばい(Yabai)”!
You’ll encounter a lot of “youth slang” or “trendy words” in Japanese anime, TV shows, video games, …
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2024.10.22
A Japanese language teacher teaches! Summary of Japanese expressions that are easy to make mistakes
"たばこ:Tobacco(tabako)” and "たまご:egg(tamago)", "にく:meat(niku)" and "くに:country(kuni)" are Japanese wor…
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2024.10.18
What Are Loanwords Used by Japanese People? Are They the Same as the Original Words in Terms of Pronunciation?
There are people who find loanwords “difficult” and others who find them “easy to understand.” Why i…
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2024.09.10
The Interesting Points of Japanese Language – Intransitive and Transitive –
This article explains the automatic verbs that Japanese people often use in their daily lives. Depen…
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2024.07.22
Does the Japanese Language Have Slang? Famous Japanese Slangs
Various slangs exist in Japanese, but you need to be careful how you use them. It is not appropriate…
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