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Japanese Version Hello everyone! My A-I-U-E-O blog will be focusing on Ta this week. I hope that you enjoy guessing what word will come next!And today’s theme, well, if it’s “ta” then… the word is鯛焼き- たいやき – “taiyaki!”(All those folks who guessed that this would be the word for “ta” are amazing! LOL). What is Taiyaki? 鯛焼き […]

In this blog - Matsumoto Sensei teaches us the meaning behind one of Japan's longest running advertising Campaigns.

This blog teaches us a popular Japanese Proverb - Su - "Suki koso monono jozu nare (What one likes, one will do well).” 好きこそものの上手なれ

What do the Japanese Words “Shouganai” and “Shikata ga nai” Mean in English? 「しかた（が）ない、しょうがない」、Shikata ga nai, shouganaiThere’s nothing you can do. / It can’t be helped. 日本語   Expressing Ideas…In Casual Conversations… To Express Ideas In any language, there are definitely some popular phrases that can help to facilitate communication and express ideas clearly.  If […]

The Basics of Japanese Cooking Vocabulary What are the Sa, Shi, Su, Se and So’s of Japanese Cooking? 日本語はこちらHi there! Can you believe it’s already May!? Well, anyways, it’s time for yet another edition of the popular (or so I’d like to believe) AIUEO blog! It is now our third run through the cycle! Today’s […]

About this week's Author: Mr. Matsumoto, was a junior high school Japanese teacher for 23 years before joining Coto Language Academy. Therefore, he is a Japanese language pro. He currently teaches Coto’s Intensive Courses (intermediate and advanced), Business Courses and the Part Time N1 grammar and reading classes. He is also involved in developing teaching materials at Coto.

The author for this article is Kumi Tanaka-sensei. (About Tanaka Sensei) She is mainly responsible for the Business Japanese course, JLPT N1 classes, and Intensive courses. Tanaka-sensei is quite popular amongst our intermediate and advanced students! Currently, she is enjoying studying the Vietnamese language.

This week's author is Kambara Sensei - Ms. Kambara loves to travel and in addition to teaching Japanese at Coto Academy has her own tour company that rents camper vans to Tourists in Japan.https://www.roadtripjapan.com/

きっかけ (Kikkake) – The reason for starting something / “the story behind it” 日本語はこちら “Kikkake” can be defined as “a reason or incentive for why you started doing something”. For a personal example, I am a huge fan of soccer and my reason (Kikkake) for becoming such a big fan originated during the 2000 Sydney […]

Karaoke Japanese Vocabulary – AIUEO Blog! 日本語はこちらHello to our lovely readers!  These days we can finally sense spring making an entrance amongst the winter cold.  Here on the (self-proclaimed) hugely popular A-I-U-E-O Blog, we will now be starting with the “ka” row!   A Popular Leisure ActivityList of Karaoke-related TermsQuiz on the Origins of Karaoke […]

Author, Mr. Matsumoto, was a junior high school Japanese teacher for 23 years before joining Coto Language Academy. Therefore, he is a Japanese language pro. He currently teaches Coto's Intensive Courses (intermediate and advanced), Business Courses and the Part Time N1 grammar and reading classes. He is also involved in developing teaching materials at Coto.

日本語はこちらから In the “E” edition of the “A I U E O” blog, we would like to introduce a Japanese saying. Have you ever heard of the saying “縁の下の力持ち　En-no-shita-no-chikara-mochi?” Example) A: “What do I do? I’m a wedding planner.　I run around doing behind-the-scenes work at weddings.　It’s a dull job but it’s also a hard job.” […]