Archive for 'Culture'
Singing Japanese songs as a way of learning the language Posted by keiko on Jun 16, 2014
There are many ways of learning a foreign language. How about singing a song in the language of your study? It might be easier to study Japanese this way than learning from the book. I would like to share a story of Nicholas Edwards who has now become such a famous pop singer in Japan. Nicholas…
Top 20 Most Used Japanese words for foreigners Posted by keiko on Jun 12, 2014
Recently, I came across an interesting article regarding the top 20 most used Japanese words on a web site called Deep Japan. (Original article from http://news.mynavi.jp/news/2014/01/15/231/) Have you heard of a site called Deep Japan(http://www.deepjapan.org/)? For those who would like to travel to Japan someday, this site might become helpful. This site is for everyone who…
Counting Basics in Japanese – Part 2 Posted by keiko on Jun 9, 2014
The other day, I have introduced “COUNTER WORDS’ in Japanese. COUNTER WORDS are the attachments to the vocabulary when you count things in Japanese. It changes according to what exactly you are counting. You can read the first article from here for your review. The last article covered the following things for counting. Smaller animals, insects…
Frozen in Japanese Posted by keiko on Jun 3, 2014
These days, we don’t find too many people who does not know about the movie, FROZEN. This movie is popular worldwide, as you know, and that includes Japan as well. Frozen is called “アナと雪の女王” (Ana to uki no jo-ou) You might already know the Kanji’s here. 雪 is Yuki, which is snow. 女王 is Jo-ou, which is queen…
Twinkle Twinkle Little Star in Japanese Posted by keiko on May 26, 2014
There are many ways of learning a foreign language, but how about learning Japanese through a simple song? Let me introduce you to the twinkle twinkle little star in Japanese. Twinkle Twinkle Little Star in Japanese きらきら光る kira kira hikaru お空の星よ osorano hoshiyo まばたきしては mabataki shite wa みんなを見てる minna o miteru きらきら光る kira kira hikaru お空の星よ osorano hoshiyo So…
Basic Japanese Greeting Posted by keiko on May 23, 2014
We all know that, in any language, memorizing greeting phrases is very useful. In Japanese culture, greeting others with respect is very important. In this blog post, I would like to introduce you to the basic greetings in Japanese. If you don’t have time to read through, you can watch the video at the end…
What is “Secret Money” ? Posted by keiko on May 20, 2014
Recently, I came across this article on Yahoo Japan News that discussed about Hesokuri(へそくり), “secret money”. へそくり is the money you save secretly, without telling anyone about it, not even to your spouse. Perhaps you might have へそくり set aside already? Average へそくり for men: $13,600 & for women:$15,500. This study was based on…