Ace Japanese

I run Ace Japanese. Please visit my youtube Ashley K or email acejapanese@protonmail.com

Leave your books behind -Let’s Read a Japanese Newspaper article

Ace Japanese March 15, 2020 January 12, 2021Beginners, grammar, High school Japanese, Japanese culture, JLPT, NHK Easy, Reading, 漢字　かんじ

Article from NHK Easy talking about back problems, heavy textbooks and a policy change from MEXT to deal with it. We’ll be going through this article in detail. Please check the youtube description box for a link to the Google Doc which has a word list.

Let’s Read a Japanese Newspaper article – Earthquakes in Hokkaido

Ace Japanese March 15, 2020 January 12, 2021Beginners, grammar, High school Japanese, Japanese culture, JLPT, NHK Easy, Reading, Study methods, 漢字　かんじ

I’ll read through the article explaining words and grammar along the way. This is an article from NHK Easy talking about earthquakes in Hokkaido. We’ll be going through this article in detail. Please check the youtube description box for a link to the Google Doc which has a word list…

Kanji – How to learn and the materials I recommend

Ace Japanese March 15, 2020 January 12, 2021Beginners, High school Japanese, JLPT, Study methods, 漢字　かんじ

Not sure how to learn Kanji? Finding your progress is slow? This video will show you the ways I learnt over 2000 kanji and the books and materials I used. I got JLPT 2級 in 2008 and JLPT N1 in 2020. Of course these exams require you to know a…

Counting to a trillion and above in Japanese

Ace Japanese March 15, 2020 January 12, 2021Beginners, grammar

Introductory lesson for those who want to learn to count to ridiculously high numbers. I’ll be continuing on with this in future videos to learn how to count objects as well.

世界で一番長生きの男性 — Article Read-through

Ace Japanese March 9, 2020 January 12, 2021grammar, High school Japanese, Japanese culture, JLPT, NHK Easy, Reading

Article from NHK Easy talking about the former Guinness World Record Holder for Oldest Living Man

A complete guide to 1700 kanji through Kanjidamage.com – Part 1

Ace Japanese March 9, 2020 October 12, 2022Japanese culture, JLPT, Reading, Study methods, 漢字　かんじ

Here is the link to Part 2. This will be a video series on how to learn kanji from absolute scratch. I’ll be running through the website kanjidamage.com as this is the best online free kanji program I have found. In this video I’ll be running through the way to…

A complete guide to 1700 kanji through Kanjidamage.com – Part 2

Ace Japanese March 9, 2020 January 12, 2021High school Japanese, Japanese culture, JLPT, Study methods, 漢字　かんじ

Part 2 of the video series on how to learn Kanji from absolute scratch. I’ll be running through the website kanjidamage.com as this is the best online free kanji program I have found. We’ll finish off the How To section of the website and look at the other features.

Learning through input — Satorireader.com

Ace Japanese March 9, 2020 January 12, 2021grammar, High school Japanese, Reading, Study methods, 漢字　かんじ

A great website that helps you learn Japanese through short stories with hyperlinked vocabulary, grammar explanations and spaced interval repetition features built in – plus it’s (basically) free! I would also recommend the below video as it shows you the science behind the website.

24時間欠席連絡自動受付 (24 hour automated absence notification system) — NHK Easy Article Read-through

Ace Japanese March 9, 2020 March 9, 2020grammar, High school Japanese, Japanese culture, JLPT, NHK Easy, Reading

Article from NHK Easy talking about 24 hour automated absence notification system.

Hospital Opening Days —Article Read-through

Ace Japanese March 9, 2020 January 5, 2021grammar, High school Japanese, NHK Easy, Reading

Article from NHK Easy talking about a public policy issue: hospital opening times over extended holidays. We’ll be going through this article in detail. The description box on the youtube video has some links to materials for this video.