I’d typed up this long-ass entry about learning Japanese but I think I’ll have to save it for my Christmas special or something because long-ass entry is long.
While having dinner with a group of friends from Singapore recently, a friend M asked, “How’s your Korean language skills now?” I shook my head. While I’ve actually
A particular phrase has been very popular among teenagers, that is マジ卍 (maji manji). Maji means “really,” and nobody really knows what manji means. When asked, these teens
The airport is such an interesting place. Yesterday, as I approached the check-in counter at Haneda and handed my passport to the ground staff donning the ANA uniform,
I saw this on TV over the weekend and YouTube didn’t disappoint having it uploaded within the same day. The example sentences of the Japanese language that Azerbaijan
When buying medicine, you may see the bottles indicating the temperature at which they should be stored. On some bottles, it says 室温保存 (literally “room temperature”) and some
I was texting Ms. D some time ago when she said she was having tendon for dinner. “What cuisine is that,” I asked. And she replied as-a-matter-of-factly, “Japanese,”
It’s been some time since I wrote a Japanese language post, but when I first learned about なにげない and さりげない, I couldn’t grasp the difference immediately because the
The Japanese have an apt for describing emotions very well. Back when I didn’t understand Japanese, I’ve never thought of this way of articulating the feeling of falling