A blog about Japanese words in anime and manga, with romaji and explanations.
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Why You Should Never Learn Japanese with Romaji
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How to Learn Japanese with Songs
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How to Learn Japanese with AI (ChatGPT)
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Learn Japanese with HypMic: Some Other Things
This is basically the part 2 of this post. These things aren’t entirely compulsory for learning Japanese, but they pop up in HypMic and…maybe…if you want to learn…
Learn Simple Japanese Words Using Anime
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Can ChatGPT Teach You Natural Japanese?
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You Should Learn These Basic Japanese Job Interview Questions
Job hunting in Japan? Ace that interview by brushing up on how to answer basic Japanese job interview questions.
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Sorry Carson, but I’m going to have to piggyback off of the crap situation you’re in for a bit.
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How NOT to Learn Japanese
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I was looking through my twitter feed when I suddenly remembered how a lot of people kept telling me that I know so much about Japanese culture and…
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About a month ago, I discovered this video on my manga Twitter feed. As much as I love manga, I have started becoming bored with manga at times since…
Learn Advanced Japanese With These Side-by-Side English Readers
Want to read Japanese newspapers or essays? Preparing for JLPT N1? Here's how to level up your Japanese game with side-by-side readers.
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Can Anime Teach You Science?
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How to Learn Japanese Online From Zero
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The Anime Curriculum- What Anime can teach you
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How Long Does it Take to Learn Japanese?
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Can Japanese Spot Foreigners' Japanese by Listening? (Tokyo)
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You Can Write These Japanese Loan Words in Kanji (But Probably Shouldn’t)
We typically write them in katakana now - but these Japanese words originally had kanji. How many of these can YOU read?
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Don't want to be an English teacher in Japan? Here are real examples why you should learn Japanese to get a better job in Japan.
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Let’s Learn Katakana With Pokemon Part 2
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Learning Japanese 3 Ways with Anime!
I’ve posted before on my blog about different ways that watching anime might help you to learn Japanese. I’ve mentioned how learning exclamations can give you an instant…
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Evangelion is a challenging show. I realize that sentence should elicit a chorus of “No duh, Dick Tracy. Where’d you park your squad car? Up your nose.” The…
Can AI Correct Your Japanese Mistakes?
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While not comprehensive, Episode 4 perfectly captures many of the tactics corporations use to suppress their workers. Of course, the challenging relationship these characters already have with labor…
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Joshua Pantalleresco examines the world of manga, and how the western pop culture industries could learn from its perennial successes.