Beginner Japanese

Learning Hiragana and Katakana is pretty simple, but there are a few little pain points I have noticed and I want to cover them here as well as how to overcome them (which mostly means just practicing more) and this should help your learning go a little smoother. This is a really important part of […]

When it comes to learning Japanese to a high level, you are going to need to watch some movies and TV shows as they are extremely be beneficial for your listening ability, but let’s look at why that is. In short, they are a great form of immersion and a lot of fun, so you

Listening to Japanese is something you need to be doing right from the start and it is one of the best ways to improve your overall skills, but you will face many challenges along the way, which I will cover here. Really all of these can be overcome by just practicing more and getting more

When you are learning Japanese, you should focus a lot of time on listening, it really is an essential skill. However, when you start out this is going to be difficult and quite mentally draining, so let’s look at some ways you can improve your listening ability. If you keep working on the things I

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