When I tell people I teach Japanese, the reaction from everyone is always, “You teach Japanese?” I wasn’t born in Japan, didn’t start learning it seriously until I was 15 and have probably only spent about 2 years total in Japan. Why would you ever listen to what I have…
For a lot of you, the JLPT has been your major Japanese-related goal for the year. Now it’s over, this can bring with it a corresponding reduction in Japanese study. Drilling Japanese for the JLPT is effective for pass rates but probably unsustainable in the long term, nevermind whether such…
Compilation of common Japanese Counters 助数詞 for beginners・intermediate/highschool/JLPT N5, N4 and N3. I’ll be covering the following counters: 円, 冊, 人, 名, 枚, ページ, 頭, 匹, 足, 台, 階, 歳, 杯, 個, つ, 羽, 本, 点, 泊. I reference a few webpages in this video, I would really recommend you…
An article readthrough in Japanese about カゴパク. I’d put this about JLPT N3/N2 level. Article here: https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/5d7b801d993871653b9953e90f621ab9e4af713d
We’ll be looking at Dogen’s video「近く」のない外国人 and explain it with the help of my friend Nanako. This will be mostly in Japanese so I would recommend you be at least intermediate level to watch! Original here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEZwV…
Playing some hearthstone in Japanese.
A Japanese conversation (with some English) about life in Osaka, being Japanese, using Japanese and other topics. I’m releasing highlights from this conversation over the next few days so be sure to subscribe so you don’t miss the next one.
A Japanese conversation (with some English) about Osaka dialect, culture and learning another language and other topics. I’m releasing highlights from this conversation over the next few days so be sure to subscribe so you don’t miss the next one.
Understanding katakana words can be tricky, but I’ve got some tips that you can use yourself to work out what these words are. Mio is helping me out with this video and gives some great comments in English and Japanese. Katakana is a big part of Japanese and just knowing…
Reading Japanese can be tricky, but consuming native materials is one of the best ways to exposure yourself to real Japanese and therefore to read, write, speak and understand natural sounding Japanese. In this video I’ll show you an extension for your browser which can help you read kanji etc…