If you’re planning a trip to Japan and wondering where to go for an all-around great experience, AEON Mall is one of the best choices you can make. Found all across Japan and catering to people of all ages, AEON Mall offers more than just shopping, it’s a one-stop indoor…
another nail in the coffin for textbooks Teaching Japanese is one of those things that I enjoy immensely, but it’s hard to sell my services as being superior or the best use of your time and money when there are so many alternatives out there, like a textbook that claims…
The registrations for the December 2022 JLPT are now open, and it is being run in every capital city except Canberra for the December test. I specifically help with JLPT preparation and hold N1 myself, so if you’re wanting to get the most out of your Japanese study, be sure…
Although social media is mostly a waste of time, from a language learning point of view, it’s a great way to get involved in conversations with natives and see the back and forth that can result. Seeing as most journalist’s attempt at research and investigation or original story writing involves…
One thing I wish I had realised earlier is that school and exams are not really that great a measure of your ability in a subject. In the end, tests and exams are an imperfect way to test people. You can be amazing at a subject or area but do…
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…
Continuing on with the beginner Japanese course. We’ll be looking at talking about others, talking about yourself and talking about family members. Check out the playlist to see the other videos in this series.
Today we’ll be looking at the plain-form past, plain-form past negative and we’ll also do the te-form along the way.
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.
Another video in the ‘permissions’ series. Here we’ll be looking at しないとならない, しなければならない, しなくてはならない which are all used to talk about things that must be done. Update: I’ve done some reading that points out that using the と conditional with ならない is weird for this type of construction. I agree…