So, occasionally, I allow the geek in me to freely roam the streets. It’s a ‘not-very-often-occurrence’, mostly as Mrs Grumbleweed at No 26 gets real scared as he walks passed, so he’s usually kept under close lock and key. Today though, he was permitted to pull together his favourite kanji of the moment. Sad, he [...]
Language is fascinating. It’s organic, living, breathing, tangled, misinterpreted, overused, misrepresented, joyous and troublesome. Looking back into history, it seems that most languages have sprawled out from their epicentres, and, wherever people have gone, they have followed, like ivy left to grow of its own accord, assimilating and overtaking everything in their wake. Languages are [...]
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.. Don’t forget to leave a comment AND, check out Japanese [...]