Category: grammar
Examining colloquial contractions of 「せる・させる」:さして・はしらして・とらした etc
Japanese in real life: making an effort with 〜ようにしている
The Te Form or that て thing you keep seeing everywhere
ようになる・ようにする with verbs
This is a N4 grammar point that is often one of the trickier ones for people to get their head around. However it is so common in Japanese that you would do well to learn it as it will be used in a wide variety of circumstances, including all the…
Talking about reasons: から vs の vs のだから
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…
Japanese Counters 助数詞 – Beginner to Intermediate plus example sentences
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…
Overexplaining Dogen – Improving your Japanese with Ashley and Nanako
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…
Tips for reading Japanese using rikaichan/rikaikun
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…
日本語能力試験N2・読解練習 – 恐竜の柔らかい卵/ JLPT N2 Reading – Soft Dinosaur Eggs
We’ll be going through an article discussing the recent discovery of soft dinosaur eggs. I go through the article completely and point out the kanji, readings, grammar and other points to help you understand. Original article here: https://natgeo.nikkeibp.co.jp/atcl/ne…
Examining colloquial contractions of 「せる・させる」:さして・はしらして・とらした etc
Japanese in real life: making an effort with 〜ようにしている
The Te Form or that て thing you keep seeing everywhere
ようになる・ようにする with verbs
This is a N4 grammar point that is often one of the trickier ones for people to get their head around. However it is so common in Japanese that you would do well to learn it as it will be used in a wide variety of circumstances, including all the…
Talking about reasons: から vs の vs のだから
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…
Japanese Counters 助数詞 – Beginner to Intermediate plus example sentences
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…
Overexplaining Dogen – Improving your Japanese with Ashley and Nanako
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…
Tips for reading Japanese using rikaichan/rikaikun
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…
日本語能力試験N2・読解練習 – 恐竜の柔らかい卵/ JLPT N2 Reading – Soft Dinosaur Eggs
We’ll be going through an article discussing the recent discovery of soft dinosaur eggs. I go through the article completely and point out the kanji, readings, grammar and other points to help you understand. Original article here: https://natgeo.nikkeibp.co.jp/atcl/ne…