One of the things you’ll get told in the ‘cultural’ learnings side of Japanese, is to be careful with the number 4 due to its pronunciation. Apart from the fact that I disagree that this should be a JLPT N4 kanji (surely the numbers below 100 have to be N5?),…
A great channel to test your Japanese skills on is QuizKnock. Their YouTube description is the following: 東大クイズ王・伊沢拓司を中心としたメンバーが、ガチンコクイズや盛り上がるゲーム、激ムズ入試問題など様々な無理難題に対し、頭脳と根性で挑戦していくチャンネルです。勉強動画もあるよ！ ガチンコ means to do something seriously. It comes from Sumo, originally being ガチン which is the onomatopoeia for the sound of two wrestlers slamming together when they go from the 蹲踞 crouch…
Click the image below to go to the article from which I draw these examples from: ヨジジュクゴとは？ Kanji can be an intimidating part of Japanese. I think it is a big reason why a lot of people give up on Japanese. If you can’t consume the written word of a…
Article link:https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/94af3649323a03d2dfb09bd850600defeccd70c1 Video readthrough of the article with translation and explanation: 0点は厳しすぎ？小1「とめ、はね、はらい」で× 文科省の見解は 0点 is read as れいてん which you can read more about here. 習字のような「とめ、はね、はらい」ができていないと、漢字ドリルは全てやり直し。テストは0点―。小学1年の担任のこうした指導に対し、保護者から「厳しすぎる」という悩みが届いた。わが子の就学を前に、どこまで丁寧に字を書かせるべきか思案している保護者は多いはず。西日本新聞「あなたの特命取材班」がウェブサイトで意見を募ったところ、保護者や教育現場からさまざまな声が届いた。字体の指導は、どこまで厳格であるべきか。 小学1年の担任a たんにんせんせい is the homeroom/form teacher that you have generally in the morning before school actually starts in Japan. But たんにん also means to be…
One of the most common beginner questions I deal with is about kanji. But from experience, it it clear that even people who get to a relatively advanced level of kanji still don’t know basic things about kanji or study them really ineffectively. The treatment of kanji in most textbooks…
#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…
This lesson we’ll be looking at the ‘ga’ particle a bit more, counting and some kanji. Google Doc to follow along with the lesson: https://goo.gl/Ng2Jz9
Welcome to the stream 6.8.18. Live at 10am WST. I deleted the original as it was not good quality and I am uploading the local recording of the lesson instead. Today we’ll be looking at a Year 12 Kanji list, doing stroke 10 and 11. Please look back at the…
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…
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.