Speaking in Japanese is one of the areas that beginners find extremely difficult and I want to go through some tips here that should help you boost your confidence when you do try and speak It is normal to find speaking in Japanese hard, but it is a skill you can get better at and […]

You will reach a point in your Japanese studies where you will want to start speaking …and you will find it difficult, so it is only natural to ask how you can improve this skill. It is a pretty simple process to improve your speaking, which I will go through below …but it will require

If you are learning Japanese you have probably wondered if you should try and focus on trying to sound more Japanese, and even if you should try and get a Japanese accent. The truth is that it extremely hard to achieve this, but you should try and make some effort to sound more “natural” when

There has been a recent rise around the whole discussion of “pitch accent” in Japanese, and if you should try and focus on this or not. Traditionally this has been totally ignored by learners and even those who had reached quite high levels in the language had often not even been aware of its existence.

Once you start speaking in Japanese, you will quickly realise that the pronunciation side of things is really hard. You will want to say one thing, but it will come out sounding slightly different and some words can feel like a tongue twister at first. This is totally normal as learner, but it is annoying,

When it comes to speaking in Japanese, you will want to try and sound more …Japanese. This is actually really important, the better you sound, the more clearer your words will be and people will actually be able to understand you, so while you might feel a little silly, you do need try and sound

When you start speaking in Japanese you are going to notice that you seem very slow, especially compared to the native speakers and this can be annoying. It is perfectly normal as a beginner, but you will of course want to get faster, which you can …it will just require a lot of practice. I

When someone like me tells you do just “do more reading” that isn’t exactly the most helpful of responses, so here I will go through the different types of reading material you can find in Japanese. Now you can at least have some areas you can go and investigate and find something that will suite

When you start reading in Japanese you are going to find it very hard, and you will come across a lot of common challenges. These are totally normally and faced by most people, so I will go through some of the main ones you are likely to face so that you can be prepared for

When it comes to learning Japanese there are a number of different aspects you can focus on, and arguably, reading is actually one of the most important areas. It is hard work, but you are going to gain so much from taking the time to get better at reading. The benefits are worth the effort