Japanese SF book release: “Three Special Girls” by Ikujiro Ran
I’m proud to announce my latest book release, a trio of SF fiction stories by Japanese classic author Ikujiro Ran.
Vocabulary list: Classical Japanese kanji
In this post I give a list of words which contain kanji not commonly used in modern Japanese anymore, as a way to help those wanting to get into reading classical literature that is 50+ years old.
A Critical Look at Bilingual Education Programs
In this post I talk about some pros and cons of bilingual education programs for children, based on some data I have gathered over the last few years.
Self Taught Japanese celebrates 1,000 posts (and a little book sale)
When I created the first post of this blog in December, 2013, I never imagined that I would be still updating it periodically nearly eight years later. Though I check my site stats fairly often, it’s somewhat rare for me to check the number of articles, but when I did so a few months back… Read More »
Ki-Aikido Lessons: learning from everyone
In this post I talk about something I’ve experienced in my Ki-Aikido training: the idea of being able to learn from others, regardless of their level.
Japanese expression: “〜からすると” (~kara suru to)
In this post I will go over the expression “〜からすると” (~kara suru to), including a few examples and related expressions. To start the discussion, let’s look at a concrete example sentence. 色からするとかなり古いだろうね。 (iro kara suru to kanari furui darou ne.) Now let’s look at each piece of the phrase “kara suru to”: から (kara): A… Read More »
Ebook release: “Fast Forward Japan” (classic SF by Unno Juza)
I’m happy to announce the ebook release of “Fast Forward Japan”, a selection of classic SF by Unno Juza. In this post I also list the original Japanese titles of all the stories included, as well as their dates of publishing.
Japanese Literature Translation: “My Life”, an essay by women author Hayashi Fumiko (林芙美子)
I published my translation of the essay “My Life” by Hayashi Fumiko (林芙美子), a notable woman Japanese author of the early 20th century.
Japanese expression ともなく (to mo naku)
In this article I’d like to go over the expression ともなく (to mo naku), which you may come across when reading Japanese literature. While it is usually written in hiragana as ともなく, sometimes you can see it written in a mix of kanji and hiragana as とも無く It’s composed of three parts: the particle “to”,… Read More »
Japanese expression:「言葉が足りず、すみませんでした」 (kotoba ga tarizu, sumimasen deshita)
In this post I go over the expression 「言葉が足りず、すみませんでした」, including some variations and related expressions.