Japanese vocab list: house-related words
This is a handy Japanese vocabulary list about words related to houses.
Category Archives: Vocabulary Lists
Starfield Japanese vocabulary list
I’ve collected a list of Japanese vocabulary words related to the popular space RPG game Starfield.
Japanese vocabulary list: Employment-related words
Besides things like culture and media, one of the major reasons for wanting to learn a foreign language is a desire to live in a country that speaks that language, and to live somewhere the majority of us must also work there to be able to survive. So I’ve decided to make a vocabulary list… Read More »
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.
50+ Introductory Phrases in Japanese
In this post I give over 50 introductory phrases, with translations. that can be used as starting blocks to build Japanese sentences.
10 Japanese Expressions Involving Cats
I put together a list of 10 expressions in Japanese that involve our favorite furry friend––the cat.
Japanese vocabulary list: Calligraphy terms
The characters used in the Japanese language––comprised of hiragana, katakana, and kanji––use a large variety of shapes and strokes, and in my opinion are very visually pleasing. Calligraphy, a traditional art that is still popular in Japan today, takes these same characters and elevates them to a true art form that can often be seen… Read More »
Japanese vocabulary list: violin and music terms
As if I didn’t have enough hobbies, recently I started learning to play the violin. Knowing me, you might not be surprised to find that I’m doing it self-taught, at least for the time being. While I have had basic conversations about violin and music related topics, I realized that there are some terms I… Read More »
Hey man, where’s my drone? (a tale of a runaway UAV) [w/ Japanese vocabulary list]
I finally decided to shell out some serious money for a prosumer drone. Little did I know that our time together would only be a few days… (includes a Japanese vocabulary list of drone-related words)
Japanese words that mean “not at all” (zenzen [全然], etc.)
I’ve noticed that Japanese seems to have a large number of words that are used to describe the complete absence of something, or complete negation of something like an action. These words would generally be used in a sentence or phrase that ends in a verb in the negative tense. In English, this would correspond… Read More »