Let’s face it—Japanese can feel like a language that belongs in a different world. Three scripts (Hiragana, Katakana, Kanji), thousands of characters, unfamiliar grammar rules, and an entire culture ...

The Quezon City Public Library has officially opened registrations for its online Japanese language classes for the entire ...

Japanese is a language isolate, spoken by 121 million people in Japanese archipelago. There are small Japanese communities in American Samoa, Hawaii, North and South ...

U.S. influencer Ananya Donapati shares useful tips on learning English and Japanese with her 700,000 followers on social media. Some of the headlines she has used include “English words that you could ...

As a teacher of world languages, I have often found it helpful to study examples from languages that are unfamiliar to me. Many times, the more strange and different a language is from ones with which ...

About eight months ago, I impulsively decided I wanted to learn Japanese. To be honest, it wasn't something that had ever occurred to me as either beneficial or indeed especially possible for me ...

One way to make a great first impression in your new workplace or school is to address people in Japanese correctly. Using the right honorific shows your level of Japanese cultural awareness, your ...

“Language is not a genetic gift; it is a social gift. Learning a new language is becoming a member of the club––the community of speakers of that language.” –Frank Smith Smith’s quotation speaks to ...