Anime has undeniably grown in popularity in the west in recent decades, and interest ranges from casual viewing to die-hard fans. Anime stems from the word animation, and in the west animation is...

If you love anime and it has motivated you to want to learn Japanese, you may feel that anime alone is not a legitimate reason to start learning, and that you may not get enough benefit from it to...

Many sources have cited interest in anime as one of the main reasons why people begin learning Japanese. It is certainly the reason I started, and from personal experience I feel that anime has...

A key element of overcoming the challenge of learning kanji, especially as a non-native Japanese learner, is to have a system that both effectively teaches it to you and manages your review of what...

Learning spoken Japanese is already difficult enough due to its dissimilarity to English and other western languages. And if that was not enough, you also need to contend with kanji, an inseparable...

There are many thousands of kanji in existence, but for practical purposes learning 2000 high frequency kanji will cover 99% of kanji encountered when reading in Japanese. Targeting to learn this...