It’s difficult to write katakana smoothly, have you ever thought that? For example, the names of things that you have often seen in daily li

Is it presented  as “How are you?” in Japanese textbooks. Directly translated it means “How are you?” but I think the meaning and situation

Your listening skills will improve as you acquire the how-to of native pronunciation and people around you will be able to understand what y

there are only 5 vowels in Japanese. So there are only one each for A I U E O of Roman letters. This is a very important point that it’s dif

I want to introduce you to a fun, easy-to-understand website, application, and some more useful information for studying kanji.

Wasabi is not just a condiment for Japanese food it is also being used as flavoring.Well, today I have a shocking announcement for everyone

I would like to talk about today’s words used by young people that aren’t in a textbook. Typically I say young people’s expressions but ther

Recently in Japan dialects are viewed positively as “cute”, “seen as friendly”and “showing uniqueness”etc. However, a few decades ago there

There are many Japanese words that can’t be translated to a single phrase in English. One of them that I would like to introduce today is &q

日本人はよく話を聞いているときに、うなずいたり、「うん、うん」、「はい」、「ふうん」といってあいづちをうちますよね。「あなたの話をきいていますよ」という態度（たいど）を表すとても大事（だいじ）なものです。私が日本人と話をしていて、相手（あいて）が全然（ぜんぜん）動（うご）か...

こんにちは、絵里子です。 Hi! Eriko here. 突然（とつぜん）ですが、みなさんの体は柔（やわ）らかいほうですか。毎日、運動（うんどう）していますか。もし、二つの質問（しつもん）の答（こた）えが、「no」だったら、今日はいいことをお教えします。 This may...