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[...] One of the joys of learning Japanese is seeing that shocked and dumbfounded look on native speakers’ faces when you fire off a difficult word or phrase that even they probably wouldn&# [...]

[...] the only ones I ever actually hear voiced are the three listed above. And of those, even native speakers don’t always voice 階 where they’re supposed to. 6. Katakana words take いち. [...]

[...] dots and long stroke on 前, 美, 首? Also imaginary radicals. Don’t despair! Even native speakers–unless they’re actively studying kanji–don’t know radicals [...]

[...] ; because all they do is convey a sound. No kanji = easy. Well I’ve got news for the native speakers: these words are NOT easy and they DO require special attention. It’s exactly because [...]

Today I'm going to share a collection of websites that I think are absolutely amazing resources which everyone learning Japanese should know about. A [...]

[...] , and was so pleased with it that I decided to try to make it available and accessible to Japanese learners. The translation is very smooth and natural, so consider this a fun exercise in [...]

Hello and Happy New Year to everyone! Did you see Mt. Fuji, a hawk and an eggplant in your first dream of the year? …yeah, neither did I. Let&r [...]

[...] , in my personal experience communicating with native Japanese speakers as well as other Japanese learners, I’ve been thankful to know the names of some common radicals, and regretful that I [...]

[...] UPDATE: The Japanese Cheat Sheet Pack is now finished and printing! At last, the time has come to unveil what I’ve spent [...]

[...] . If you found this post interesting or useful, please check out Nihonshock’s Japanese Cheat Sheet pack! The information in this post is summarized in sections on both the Spoken [...]

[...] -scenes. It’s been more than a year since I first released Nihonshock’s Japanese cheat sheet pack, and in that time it became clear to me that I needed to take the product just a [...]

[...] sheet is digital only!! It is not (and will never be) a member of the printed Japanese Cheat Sheet Pack. (However, it may–at some point in the very distant future–be a member of a [...]

[...] ;t connected with Nihonshock on either Twitter or Facebook (shame on you!), I just released a digital version of one of the most popular sheets in the full Cheat Sheet Pack! Interested in things like [...]

Today I am releasing a version of the Basic Japanese cheat sheet which has been fully optimized for use on a computer (or computer-like device). [...]

[...] 't connected with Nihonshock on either Twitter or Facebook (shame on you!), I just released a digital version of one of the most popular sheets in the full Cheat Sheet Pack! [...]

[...] Month Python's dead parrot sketch. It's deservingly one of the most famous sketches in all comedy, in which John Cleese (Mr. [...]

[...] Month Python’s dead parrot sketch. It’s deservingly one of the most famous sketches in all comedy, in which John Cleese [...]

[...] Month Python’s dead parrot sketch. It’s deservingly one of the most famous sketches in all comedy, in which John [...]

[...] Month Python's dead parrot sketch. It's deservingly one of the most famous sketches in all comedy, in which John Cleese ( [...] . Praline) attempts to return a dead parrot to a stubborn pet shop owner... [...]

[...] (shame on you!), I just released a digital version of one of the most popular sheets in the full Cheat Sheet Pack! Interested in things like counters, time expressions and grammar, and time-related [...]

[...] ;Onomatopoeia” cheat sheet. It contains 340 onomatopoeia and pseudo-onomatopoeia, complete with usage notes, alternate [...]

[...] It’s been four and a half long years since Nihonshock released its original Basic Japanese cheat sheet, and finally I got around to making another freebie! Today I’m releasing Cool Japanese, which [...]

[...] a worthwhile collection. I hope that at least one of these links is helpful to you. 1. Furigana Webglasses I’ve had this link in this site’s sidebar for a long, long time. Hopefully some [...]

[...] Pronunciation Guides – Show/Hide English * furigana (pronunciation guide) is added by Furigana Webglasses‘s free web service. It’s automatically generatred so it might not be 100% [...]

Onomatopoeia. That's a big scary term with a much less daunting meaning: any word that mimics a sound. In English, onomatopoeia consists of words like [...]

Onomatopoeia. That’s a big scary term with a much less daunting meaning: any word that mimics a sound. In English, onomatopoeia consists of word [...]

[...] (shame on you!), I just released a digital version of one of the most popular sheets in the full Cheat Sheet Pack! [...]

[...] (shame on you!), I just released a digital version of one of the most popular sheets in the full Cheat Sheet Pack! Interested in things like counters, time expressions and grammar, and time-related [...]