Another aspect of being in Japan on a working holiday visa is finding appropriate accommodation. If you go to Japan on other visa schemes, particularly for example as an English teacher, your employer will often sort out your accommodation. This has its benefits, mainly that it will often be furnished,…
から から can be used grammatically in certain ways to show reasons for something, basically acting as ‘because’ or ‘so’: 人とロボットが一緒に働く時代だからこそあらためて考えたい安全のことBecause it is the era where humans and robots work together, we need to rethink safety https://monoist.atmarkit.co.jp/mn/articles/2012/11/news046.html オフィスチェアメーカーだから伝えたい。Because we’re an office chair maker, we want to inform you. https://www.bauhutte.jp/bauhutte-life/chair-mat/ This…
A 難問 is difficult question. Here is an extract of the kanji entries. 難 [音] ナン [訓] かた.い -がた.いむずか.しい むづか.しい むつか.しい -にく.い[英] difficult; impossible; trouble; accident; defect 問 [音] モン[訓] と.う と.い とん[英] question; ask; problem There is a similar word, 難読, read as なんどく, with the second kanji giving more a meaning of ‘difficult to read’. This is…
Adventures on a working holiday visa After I finished up at university near the end of 2010, I decided to go to Japan for at least a year on working holiday visa. WHV systems are generally reciprocal, which means that if you have WHV people coming to your country, you…
#An average Japanese adult can read many thousand kanji. How can you tell the difference between 持 待 時 侍 etc plus many more lookalikes? The three main ways are through study of radicals, learning of stories using the radicals and flashcard work. Funnily enough this isn’t exactly how Japanese people learn kanji, however…
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…
Asahi Newspaper Article Read-through, this is an article about harassment from customers. From personal experience, customers do expect a lot out of Japanese businesses and this can lead to some crazy outcomes as detailed in this article. Aimed at JLPT N1, N2 level.