Archive for 'Grammar'
Japanese words that come to your mind during summer Posted by keiko on Jul 9, 2014
It is getting pretty humid and hot in Japan these days. Today’s high shows 90 degrees F over here in Gifu. I am not a fan of humid summer weather, but this is how it goes in Japan during summer. Today, in this article, I have gathered many of the summer related Japanese words. 風鈴、ふうりん…
Japanese Days of the Month – Review Posted by keiko on Jun 25, 2014
Recently, I had many questions from Japanese blog readers regarding Japanese days of the month. I thought it will be a good time to review this and expand our vocabularies a bit more than what was mentioned on the previous article. I took the list written by another blogger, Ginny back in 2009 and expanded…
Summer in Japan Posted by keiko on Jun 24, 2014
Hi everyone! Every June, after my kids start summer break in U.S., I normally come back to my hometown, Gifu Japan with my kids. I have been in Japan since last week, and I have to tell you, weather is getting humid every day. June is normally rainy season in Japan, but this year is not…
How to talk about past in Japanese? Posted by keiko on Jun 18, 2014
In this article, I thought it will be interesting to cover “how to express past events in Japanese”. In English, each verb has its own past tense form, and that some of them are a bit unique in that you have to know how to “convert” from present tense to past tense. In Japanese, grammar…
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…
Counting Basics in Japanese – Part 1 Posted by keiko on May 29, 2014
Most of you might know already how to count 1 through 10 or 1 through 100 in Japanese. When you count things in Japanese, depending on what you are counting, “COUNTER WORDS” becomes very important. Sometimes, counter words are a bit confusing since you have to know WHICH counter word to use for what you…