How to 'Get Used to' Japanese
The newsletter is up as is the podcast: The content is new this month, and I m looking at process, specifically the importance of goal setting and right sizing those goals in order to maintain 継続 (keizoku, continuity). I m always in Continue reading
Murakami’s latest novel—The Tale of Kaho—comes out tomorrow in Japan, and he did me the biggest favor in the world by publishing it as a series of stories and novellas over the past three years. I’ve had a chance to Continue reading
The newsletter is up and the podcast is live: On even months moving forward, in the interest of saving myself some time that I can bank for other projects (like writing reviews of Murakami, etc.), I’ll be finding something from Continue reading
The newsletter is up, and the podcast is live: It was time for me to mention something about generative AI and language learning. Things have changed so dramatically from when I started studying Japanese 25 years ago, and even at Continue reading
The newsletter is online and the podcast is up! I wrote about 改めて (aratamete), which is really just a fancy way of saying また (mata, again)…to a certain extent. And while doing the podcast, I was reminded of the Japanese Continue reading
The newsletter is online, and the podcast is live: This month, I wrote about 事項 (jikō) and about how it’s essentially meaningless on its own. Because it combines with so many other words, however, it’s one of the most useful Continue reading
The newsletter is online! This month I wrote about the nice, efficient phrase 初めて言われました (Hajimete iwaremashita, That’s the first time anyone has said that about me). I think it’s potentially a nice way to gain a clearer understanding of the Continue reading
Happy New Year, all! As you might have gathered from last month’s post, 2025 was an eventful year, and fortunately it ended as smoothly as I could have hoped. The Japanese New Year’s holiday was excellent, as usual (as I Continue reading
The newsletter and podcast are online: Take a look at the newsletter for more details, but I’m taking the month off. I wrote about some of my favorite writing I’ve done since I started keeping How to Japanese way back Continue reading
The newsletter and podcast are online: This month I wrote about a word that was rattling around in my head earlier this year. 当日 (tōjitsu, the day it happened/will happen). I started by looking for some usage examples in Aozora Continue reading