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The Best Hiragana & Katakana Learning Resources
Hiragana and katakana are literally the ABCs of Japanese. They're the most basic types of Japanese characters and essential parts...
Tofugu’s Learn Kana Quiz: Practice Hiragana and Katakana
Looking for a simple tool to practice reading hiragana and katakana, as many times as you want to? Well, Tofugu's...
New Japanese Learning Resources: Winter 2022
FYI: WaniKani, our system for learning kanji and Japanese vocabulary in record time, is currently 33% off.Try it out for...
11 Japanese Expressions for Different Levels of Uncertainty
Even in situations when Japanese people are quite positive that something is true, they typically hold back on expressing claims....
How To Convert English Words to Japanese
Japanese words that even the most proficient learners of the language find the hardest to pronounce can be, ironically, the...
ばかり (Bakari) vs ところ (Tokoro)
How do you describe what you just did in Japanese? Maybe you just brushed your teeth, or you just bought...
〜ている (Teiru) vs 〜てある (Tearu) vs 〜ておく(Teoku)
Learning to differentiate the subtle nuances between 〜ている, 〜てある, and 〜ておく might be one of the biggest headaches for Japanese...
A Review of the Anki Application
For those of us learning Japanese, there's a lot we have to do. From active studying like reading textbooks, to...
What’s The Difference? Common Japanese Beginner Questions
When you're a beginning learner of Japanese, all you've got are questions. It's easy to get overwhelmed by everything you...
What is “Yuri”?
You've probably heard of Boys' Love, or BL, a well-known genre in Japan that focuses on romantic relationships between male...