This last week, I have been doing research on how to improve my studies in learning Japanese. Lately, I have been listening to a Japanese podcast that I can download and listen to on my mobile phone or through iTunes while working on the computer. So I decided to focus harder on kanjis and kanas. [...]

Well, my project started almost a year ago. I started without knowing any Japanese. I did not know what hiragana was. As far as I knew, all the characters were called kanji and nothing else… Now I can read hiragana and katakana without problems, something that was almost impossible to believe one year ago. The [...]

Well, it’s time to learn Japanese by studying the AC commercial. Today, we will learn a bunch of new Japanese words and of course look at the Hiragana and Katakana versions of these words. Below, I repeat the lyrics of the first part of the advertisement, so you can review everything in one lesson. Konnichiwa, [...]

Here we are again, and ready to learn Japanese! With this lesson, we will finish everything revolving around greetings and farewells for family and guests. So let’s begin! We have already visited the house of our friend, but now it’s time to leave and we are ready to say goodbye. So, how do we say [...]

Hi everybody! In the previous lesson about learning Japanese, we saw what the owner of a house would say if he or she were to invite you to into their home. Once we are invited, it is now our turn to respond to the owner in Japanese. So, let’s do it! Ojama shimasu Or you can also say Shitsurei shimasu. Ok, like we [...]

As in any language, you don´t say goodbye to your mother the same way you do to a customer. There are some differences and formalities. In Japan, the formalities are -more often than not- quite extreme, so you will be able to tell the differences apart easily. We have seen already some of these differences [...]