I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: my introduction to Japanese came from a desire to learn a language comprised of symbols. Nothing more, nothing less. Before stumbling across Japanese, having always been the avid student of romance languages, I had thought that alphabets were ace and symbols were stupid. How could a [...]
Before starting with a personal tutor, I’d been learning Japanese for a good long time, straight from a home study guide. With the over dramatised conversation pieces on the included CD being my only intake of spoken Japanese each week, I was getting to the point where I thought that all Japanese companies had an [...]
Coming home from my Japanese lesson on Thursday, I suddenly realised that what I thought was just a pull in my sweater of learning had actually unravelled, without my knowledge, and an entire arm had fallen off. Apart from the need to get a serious mender on the case, I also thought I’d pose the [...]
Well, if you ever find yourself stuck in the monsoon rain, outside Tokyo train station waiting for a bus, then Lesson 2 in the Japanese Shorts series is really going to sort you out. Otherwise, teach them to your grandmother, she’ll love them, I’m sure..
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Okidoky, welcome to the actual first, real catch. Feeling privileged, right? So you should be. I thought seeing as we’re still getting to know each other that we might start with some lovely Japanese greetings. Should you ever find yourself on the Japanese tube, or in a shop in Kyoto then these’ll come in smashingly. [...]
