Landscape of Japanese, 「Temple Visit」 Dialogue, Year Pre-Pay Plans

Landscape of Japanese: 3 Mountains, 2 Clouds, 1 Sun. Discussion on the Landscape of Japanese and a link to our Essentials Guide: The Mental Model, is available below. We also introduced a year pre-pay plan where when you pre-pay for a year of access to the ultimate learning platform, interactive textbook, and ninja training grounds,Continue reading “Landscape of Japanese, 「Temple Visit」 Dialogue, Year Pre-Pay Plans”

More Japanese = More Brain

Learning a new language makes you smarter (in some specific ways). While these benefits are not exclusive to learning Japanese, because Japanese grammar is almost perfectly inverted to English grammar it’s likely that the benefits of second language acquisition are maximized. Resist the onset of dementia entirely [1] Solve whole classes of puzzles more swiftlyContinue reading “More Japanese = More Brain”

Hiragana Listening Challenge

Subscribers to Japanese Complete can now play with the infinite Hiragana Listening Challenge and Identification Quiz. A nice bonus for this quiz is that each of the wrong answers will also create the sound, much like a “pull-and-say” toy. The cow goes む。 We’ve decided to provide this excellent Hiragana learning tool for free! YouContinue reading “Hiragana Listening Challenge”

The Four Types of Kanji

象形・指事・会意・形声 Kanji, ideograms that constitute a bulk of the Japanese written language, come in four rough types. Pictographs, Indicators, Combographs, and Meaning-and-Sound Borrowers. The first type is pictographs which stand in for the actual thing they represent. Some researchers claim fewer than 4% are actually pictographs. 1 象形文字 しょうけいもじ 人 biped (human)女 woman手 hand田 ricefield子Continue reading “The Four Types of Kanji”