Learning Japanese Doesn’t Have to Cost a Fortune Maybe you’ve always dreamed of understanding anime without subtitles, ...

The Japanese writing system consists of three different groups of characters: hiragana, katakana, and kanji. Hiragana and katakana work sort of like our alphabet in that you can use these phonetic ...

Developer Rice Games has recently announced a new title that is intended to teach players how to speak Japanese. Shujinkou, a 2D JRPG slated for release sometime in 2021, will take gamers on an ...

Even in this day and age of international awareness, for the average Westerner, the Japanese language still has an exotic and intimidating aura to it. Maybe it’s because it sounds so different from ...

Duolingo offers a fun, gamified approach to language learning, but quick hits of vocab and inadequate lesson reviews put true fluency out of reach. I've been using Duolingo for over 3.5 years now (my ...

As any linguist will tell you, the most effective way to learn a new language is an ever-present risk of being catapulted out of a window or splatted by a trap should you utter an incorrect infinitive ...

Since moving to Japan, I have studied the Urasenke style of s ado, or chado (Japanese tea ceremony) in Shimane Prefecture. My original goal was simply to learn about the matcha culture of Matsue ...