The Nihongo Master Blog
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The Most Confusing Japanese Kanji (and how to tell the difference)
We're talking a lot about Japanese kanji lately and how to learn them. Learning kanji takes a lot of constant memorization. You have to remember the shapes, the strokes, the meaning, and how to pronounce it. And this can be different depend...
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The Difference Between On'Yomi and Kun'Yomi
When you start learning Japanese, you first learn hiragana, and then you learn katakana, and then-- the dreaded KANJI! While hiragana and katakana can both be sounded out by syllable, kanji must simply be memorized. And as soon as you start...
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New Japanese Lessons Are Here! やったあああ!
Hope you had a nice vacation... Because we're back with NEW LESSONS! We may have taken a little break over the summer, but now we're back in action. We hope you went to the beach and had a blast, but now it's time to get back to work. With...
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Top 10 Best 80s and 90s Anime
We all love anime, and there are so many to choose from, but 80s anime and 90s anime were truly a golden generation. Many of us older folk grew up on these 90s anime and many of them paved the way for the newer anime we enjoy today. 90s ani...
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Special Nihongo Master Interview with Christine
We have a special feature this week as we talk with one of our very own users who recently passed the JLPT N5 studying only with Nihongo Master! Christine tells us a little bit about herself and gives us a Nihongo Master review too! Where...
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Weird Japanese Body Parts
Don't worry! Japanese body parts are the same as everyone else's ;) But one of the first things you're taught when you learn a language as a child is all the parts of the body. In America, we even have a song for it: "Head, shoulders k...
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10 Tricky Japanese Tongue Twisters (早口言葉) with audio!
Japanese tongue twisters (早口言葉, hayakuchi kotoba) are sayings that are meant to make you stumble over your words. Just like an English tongue twister, a Japanese tongue twister has no real meaning and is meant to be spoken as fast as po...
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Japanese Noodles Guide: NOODLEGRAPHIC!
OK, so you probably already know about ramen noodles, but what other kinds of Japanese noodles are there? Noodles are a staple of the Japanese diet and surprisingly, most of the noodles they eat are not rice-based. But what are these other...
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New Feature: Drill Mastery
Ask and ye shall receive: Drill Mastery has arrived! We know lots of users were feeling overwhelmed with the same drills in their dojo again and again. So we have finally released Drill Mastery! How Does It Work? By default, any drill you a...
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Learn Japanese: 5 Untranslatable Japanese Words
In every language there are certain untranslatable words for which we have no equivalent in English. And Japanese is no different. Oftentimes these words can say a lot about what is important to a culture. The Greeks had many different word...