JAPANESE LANGUAGE
And the Japanese Kanji for the Year of 2020 is…
What one Japanese ideograph best represents the year of COVID-19? Learn more about the winning kanji - and the runner-ups.
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JAPANESE LANGUAGE
What one Japanese ideograph best represents the year of COVID-19? Learn more about the winning kanji - and the runner-ups.
JAPANESE LANGUAGE
How did written Japanese come into accord with the spoken language? A short history of the movement to bring Japanese writing to…
JAPANESE LANGUAGE
Want to learn Japanese online? I introduce the methods and apps that will help you reach your Japanese language goals.
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The story of how modern Japanese came to assume its current written form - and how kanji nearly got left on the…
JAPANESE LANGUAGE
People often ask us what the best book for learning Japanese is. While there are a lot of good ones, this one…
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What's so controversial about a country's name? In the case of "Japan", 1,300 years of history have led to disputes over just…
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How did the hiragana and katakana writing systems come to exist in Japanese? What purpose did they serve? A history of writing…
JAPANESE LANGUAGE
How did the written Japanese language assume its current form? We look at the language's earliest written forms - Chinese kanji and…