A little while back I was learning a bunch of vocab, when I came across the word 時代「じだい」meaning “period”, “era”, or “age”, which sounded awfully familiar to me. Suddenly, it struck me. The period of Japanese history from the 15th to the 17th century is known as The Warring States Period , or in Japan…

I finally understand what people mean when they say that you need to start thinking in Japanese, not just trying to translate from English. I’m now learning grammar patterns which just don’t translate into English. It does my head in a little bit. Also, the other big realisation is that even after …

That’s a bit overdoing it for me :sweat_smile: also I try to keep WK as basic as possible. My point is, this is probably basic kanji knowledge, but I didn’t know it.

Similarly, I just started watching his English tutorials. The exact opposite to teaching Japanese to English speakers-- teaching English to Japanese speakers. It’s kind of cool to see English from the opposite perspective. For example, in this video, he talks about how to use the word “can”. …

This channel is great. He also has videos on what looks like all of middle school math, science, social studies, history…

I’ve had many of those moments. I think my first one was when I was looking at a packet or Maruchan ramen. I never thought about what it really meant and for the longest time, I thought Maruchan was a Mexican brand because it was soooo popular in Mexico (same with Yakult) and I thought that maruchan…

I know this post slightly died out but just wanted to add on to this Geeno. I studied abroad in Japan last year and during my spring quarter I took part in research being conducted by some of our Japanese Language Program faculty. The research, I believe, dealt with foreigners and effective methods …

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I had a similar epiphany tonight. I always knew Maruchan was Japanese, but I never gave the name any thought–it was just a brand name to me. But tonight I was eating a cup of noodles and got to thinking…Maruchan, I recognize those syllables, Could it mean, “round boy”? Pretty much! I can unders…

TIL the Crash Test Dummies song “Mmm mmm mmm mmm” in Japanese is called “ムムムム・・・・” [Crash Test Dummies - Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm (Official Video)]

So… I just recently learned 玉 and 子 Looking up recipes for ramen eggs, I realized that 玉子 literally translates as ballchild. I can’t quit giggling about eggs now.

Biggest Realizations / Mind Blows You've Experienced Learning Japanese: Emoji means what?!?!

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