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11 Japanese Business Verbs to Save Your Life! :Anyone attending a Japanese school, working at a Japanese company, or looking to pass the Japanese Language Proficiency Test (JLPT) will need…
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Continue readingTop 15 Japanese Loan Words (Wasei Eigo)
Top 15 Japanese Loan Words (Wasei Eigo) : If you’ve been learning (or have learned) katakana, you’ll know that Japan has a lot of words they’ve borrowed from other languages….
Continue readingWhy is Ha(は) Read as “Wa?”
Why is Ha(は) Read as “Wa?” : We’d all like to think that hiragana and katakana are the easy parts of reading Japanese. For the most part, there are. But…
Continue readingTop 15 Shopping Phrases in Japanese : Cash or Credit?
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Continue readingMASU(ます): How do you properly use this suffix?
MASU(ます): How do you properly use this suffix? : Anyone who is studying the basics or already know the basics know that the suffix, -masu, is one of the first…
Continue readingUse and Meaning of Toriaezu(とりあえず),Ittan,Tonikaku
Use and Meaning of Toriaezu(とりあえず),Ittan,Tonikaku : Japanese has a lot of really useful words. There are a lot of words that mean the same thing as entire phrases in English….
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