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Japanese Flashcards for Beginners: Nihongo Fun and Easy

Are you seeking Japanese flashcards for beginners? If you are using our nihongo fun and easy textbook – we are excited to share that we are in the process of publishing a companion flashcard course on the memrise.com flashcard study app. Moreover, it is a completely free to use app (we suggest the desktop version) […]

訳ではない – How to Say “It’s Not Necessarily the Case that…” in Japanese

Have you ever heard the Japanese phrase “そんな訳じゃない” or “そういう訳ではないんです“?  This is a very common Japanese phrase that can be used in a number of different circumstances. In this blog post, we will provide a review of the contents from the video above, and examine the JLPT N3 Grammar point: 訳じゃない/訳ではない (wake janai/wake de wa […]

Improve your Career in Japan – Evening Business Japanese Course

Improve your career opportunities in Japan with this NEW Evening Business Japanese Course Are you already working in Japan?  Do you want to improve your business Japanese communication?  Taking this new lite-intensive course will improve your work-place communication and improve your opportunities. What is a lite-intensive course? A Lite Intensive Course is a course that […]

Conversational Japanese: What is Aizuchi? 相槌 – Conversational Interjections

Are you looking to improve your Japanese conversations?  One of the most important aspects of conversational Japanese is 相槌 (aizuchi)/相槌を打つ (aizuchi o utsu).  But what is Aizuchi? These are conversational interjections that Japanese speakers use when speaking with one another. Aizuchi is primarily a way for the listener to communicate to the speaker that they […]

How to say “Because” in Japanese – Kara, No de

In Japanese there are several ways to say the word “Because”,  today we will focus on two of them – “No de” and “Kara” から ので How to use Kara から in Japanese to say Because In Japanese, if you would like to say because with verbs and adjectives – you can add Kara to […]