Reading in Japanese does more that just contribute to building your reading skill, it contributes to your overall competence in the language. Doing a lot of reading is an essential activity for any...

There are many verbs in Japanese which express the concept of cleaning. A few verbs that are commonly confused are 掃除する(soujisuru) vs 片づける(katadukeru) and 洗う(arau) vs...

You might think that you need to learn Japanese from a native speaking teacher, but there are surprising advantages to learning from a non-native speaking teacher that are not immediately obvious....

There is a wide variety of smartphone apps available to use as tools to help you along on your Japanese learning journey. One app you’re definitely going to want to have at your disposal is a...

When learning to read Japanese, one challenge you come across is not being able to read unfamiliar kanji. There are a lot of kanji, and it takes considerable time to learn them. It can be frustrating...

Your Japanese learning goals may be just to be able to speak and especially understand spoken Japanese so that you can enjoy audio-visual Japanese media and conversations with native speakers. You...