Grammar

Use Twitter To Improve Your Japanese

January 25th, 2010

The ubiquity of Twitter means you can connect to the Twitterverse in so many different ways.

Having the ability to always connect to Twitter on the run means you essentially have a free Japanese resource available to you at any time and wherever you happen be.

Should You Take The JLPT?

December 7th, 2009

The JLPT is over for another year. Some of you attended, some may have missed it, others didn’t know it was on and the rest. Well, care factor = 0.

If you spend any time reading around the interwebs this time of year, you’ll notice the great unwashed coming out of their caves and denouncing the JLPT as a waste of money and/or time.

JLPT 4: Top 50 Adjectives Worksheet

December 3rd, 2009

So it’s only days away from the 2009 JLPT test and if you don’t know a good number of these i-adjectives by now, you’ll either need a case of RedBull to pull a few all-nighters or just resign yourself to guessing your way through the multiple choice questions.

The Tale of the Little Tsu

November 27th, 2009

When you’re just starting to learn Japanese and in particular hiragana and katakana, the small tsu (っ/ッ) is one of those tricky little buggers that may get you a little confused. Every time I saw something like がっこう (gakkou), I thought it was reading as が (ga) っ (tsu) こ (ko) う (u).

JLPT 4: Top 100 Verbs Worksheet

November 24th, 2009

Featured below are the Top 100 verbs that you need to know to avoid breaking in to a cold sweat when you first flip over your test paper. If you nail these you are well on your way to a Grammar pass. Then you only have to worry about listening, reading and vocabulary (^_^)