Japanese with Anime: July 2017 Japanese with Anime: July 2017

joshi 助詞, and that might sound weird to people who just started learning Japanese. After all, what are particles? Are there particles in En...

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Japanese with Anime: June 2017 Japanese with Anime: June 2017

ha は is sometimes pronounced wa . This is even there's already another hiragana specifically for the syllable  wa わ. So how can you te...

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Japanese with Anime: May 2017 Japanese with Anime: May 2017

ahoge before. It refers to those hairs that don't behave and spring up from the head of characters. They usually look like a banana or ...

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Japanese with Anime: April 2017 Japanese with Anime: April 2017

kana in the Japanese hiragana can be easy to confuse sometimes. There's mi み, ro ろ and  ru る, and they all look like 3's, but l...

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Japanese with Anime: March 2017 Japanese with Anime: March 2017

ma マ, but it's always next to kanji, so it's a kanji, right? Anyway, it makes you wonder: "what is 々 and why does it have so m...

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Japanese with Anime: February 2017 Japanese with Anime: February 2017

masu  ます or mashita  ました, and that might make you wonder: what does masu means? What does mashita means? Why all these words end like that...

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Japanese with Anime: January 2017 Japanese with Anime: January 2017

Gyakuten Saiban 逆転裁判, also known as Ace Attorney , where the lawyer Naruhodo Ryuuichi  成歩堂龍一, a.k.a. Phoenix Wright  goes around lawyering ...

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Japanese with Anime: December 2016 Japanese with Anime: December 2016

Say you like manga and anime, things made in Japan, in Japanese. One day you feel a calling: you got to learn Japanese, because you love ...

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Kochira, Sochira, Achira, Dochira こちら, そちら, あちら, どちら Kochira, Sochira, Achira, Dochira こちら, そちら, あちら, どちら

chira  ちら, they are: kochira こちら, sochira そちら, achira あちら and dochira どちら. Amongst these,  dochira  is the most common, while the words ...

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Japanese with Anime: November 2016 Japanese with Anime: November 2016

kakkoii かっこいい, or if you like separating things,  kakko ii カッコ良い. And let's not forget about its antonym, kakkowarui かっこわるい, or kakko...

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Japanese with Anime: October 2016 Japanese with Anime: October 2016

hito 人, the sword  nin 人 and the word  jin 人 all have the same kanji in Japanese but different, related meanings? If you didn't know ...

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Bakuretsu! Bakuhatsu! EXPLOSION!!! Bakuretsu! Bakuhatsu! EXPLOSION!!!

KonoSuba このすば (if not you should) you might have noticed the character Megumin chants her "explosion" magic with a certain peculi...

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御~ Honorific Prefix - O~, Go~, お~, ご~ 御~ Honorific Prefix - O~, Go~, お~, ご~

o お or go ご. The 御 is O or Go ? The honorific prefix can be either o お or go ご, and it's normally written with hiragana . It m...

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Japanese with Anime: September 2016 Japanese with Anime: September 2016

ojisan , ojiisan , obasan and obaasan . Yep. Four words. Both ojisan and ojiisan and obasan and obaasan are different words. They aren&...

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San, Chan, Kun, Sama San, Chan, Kun, Sama

Why Are Honorifics Used Turns out this is a matter of Japanese culture rather than the Japanese language. In Japan, using honorifics w...

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Japanese with Anime: August 2016 Japanese with Anime: August 2016

anime アニメ, right? Anime is the best. Truly the greatest of all modern arts. Both you and me know this. If you don't, then, well, I don&...

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Words Written Without Kanji in Japanese Words Written Without Kanji in Japanese

Have you ever wondered what are the letters of the Japanese alphabet? Sure you've heard the stories, the legends? About how there are mo...

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Japanese with Anime: July 2016 Japanese with Anime: July 2016

gessou 月相, for a reason or another. Like the full Moon, for example. Or the full Moon. The full Moon. And... the full Moon. And also, of co...

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Lessons About The Japanese Writing System Lessons About The Japanese Writing System

Writing System Basics Special Characters & Symbols Rare Kana Kanji Homonyms & Variations Script Choice ...

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Common Anime Words Glossary Common Anime Words Glossary

A Ahegao アヘ顔 Aho アホ Ahoge アホ毛 Ai 愛 Aitsu あいつ Anata 貴方 Ane 姉 Aneue 姉上 Ani 兄 Aniki 兄貴 Anime アニメ Ano あの Anta あん...

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Request Articles to Japanese with Anime Request Articles to Japanese with Anime

Post a comment below with your request! Do you want to know the meaning of something in Japanese you saw in anime, manga or game but you ...

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Names of Colors in Japanese - Kuro, Shiro, Aka, Ao, Midori, Kiiro + Others Names of Colors in Japanese - Kuro, Shiro, Aka, Ao, Midori, Kiiro + Others

Basic  iromei 色名 Let's start with the basic names. Starting with the neutral colors," or  musaishoku 無彩色. Now the "pr...

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Jisho.org Kioku Extension - It Remembers Stuff Jisho.org Kioku Extension - It Remembers Stuff

How to Install Chrome Users Firefox Users Get it here: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/jisho-kioku/ Opera & ...

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