I’m happy to announce the 6th book of my series on Japanese classic fairy tales, written by Mimei Ogawa. Each story is published both in English-only and parallel English/Japanese versions.
In the 7th episode of my podcast about Japanese grammar I teach how to count from 0-99, give a quiz to test your knowledge of the last few episodes, and teach a useful expression for ordering things at a restaurant.
In this 5th episode of my new podcast for beginning Japanese, a talk about the negative verb tense, another usage of the “wa” particle, and a useful daily expression.
In episode 4 of my new podcast for Japanese beginners, I discuss the two verbs of existence, as well as the particles “ni” and “ga”.
I’ve released the second episode of my new podcast, “Japanese grammar and more!”. This time I’ll be going over basic word order, nouns and verbs, dictionary tense, and a basic introduction to particles.
This is the first episode of a new podcast I am starting about Japanese grammar basics, targeted at beginning students (but also helpful for intermediate students).
This is a review of my second box of goodies from Sakuraco, containing sweet treats and other delicious things from Japan.
These days calligraphy has been taking a big chunk of my hobby time, and I feel like I have been gradually improving. However, the other day something strange happened to one of my brushes, and after much research and experimentation I finally managed to solve the issue, so I wanted to talk about this for… Read More »
On a recent trip to Hawaii I stopped by a BOOKOFF store that had an excellent selection of used books, and I wanted to write a review about one of the books I ended up purchasing there. It’s called 筆ペン練習帳 (fudepen renshuuchou) and is written by 鈴木 曉昇 (Gyoushou Suzuki). You can roughly translate the… Read More »
I’m proud to announce the second book in my new series of Japanese bilingual readers, showcasing “The Bowels of the City”, a historically relevant experimental work by modernist author Riichi Yokomitsu (横光利一).