Japanese

    You may start out skimming the surface of the Japanese language, but at some point going deeper will pay dividends. Whether that's focusing on on'yomi/kun'yomi, rendaku, or the real-life use of です, the deeper you go with the fundamental components of Japanese, the more benefits you gain from study time. Start fortifying your foundation with our articles below. Each one you read is another step toward fluency.

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    6. How To Write Letters In Japanese: An Introduction Pen Pal Besties for Life

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    7. Learning Japanese Vocab Using Opposites Strengthen your vocab with the power of pairs

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    8. Creating Japanese Learning Opportunities in a Non-Japanese Speaking World Immersing yourself in Japanese outside Japan

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    9. How to Handle the Transition from Classroom to Self-Learning Welcome to the real world

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    10. Majoring in Japanese? Here's What You Can Expect 5 reasons not to and 2 to maybe consider it

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    11. The Biggest Spelling Mistakes in Japanese Nobody's perfect, even in Japanese

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    12. How To Survive, Get Ahead, And Then Conquer Your Japanese Language Class How to rocket to the head of the class

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    13. How To Look Up and Read Kanji You Don't Know Because everyone needs help sometimes

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    14. Japanese Reading Practice For Beginners Ease yourself in gently, like it's a hot, hot bath of language

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    15. How to Stay Motivated When Learning Japanese Keeping momentum for the long term

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    16. Spotting The Hidden Meanings Hiding Within Animal Kanji Is that a pigeon I see in your kanji?

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    17. How to Kick Start Your Japanese Fluency With Pictures Visual learners listen up!

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    18. How to Learn Japanese Without Really Doing Anything Nothing is never nothing, though

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    19. How Romaji Can Ruin Your Day Maybe you should just learn actual Japanese?

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    20. Yojijukugo: The Four Kanji That Make One Idiom With 一所懸命 you will learn them all

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    21. Mixing It Up With Japanese Wordplay Becoming smarter and more fluent the fun way!

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    22. 9 Things Starcraft Can Teach You About Learning Japanese My life for Tofugu... er... Aiur

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    23. Your Name in Japanese - The Right and Wrong Way to Do It There are two ways to write your name in Japanese. And one of them is wrong.

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    24. Why Do Japanese People Talk So Fast? Try to keep up, junior

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    25. How To Conquer the Intermediate Japanese Plateau You've achieved a lot. But you can achieve more.

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    26. 8 Things That Will Improve Your Japanese in Two Hours We all have a couple hours to spare

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    27. What Does It Mean To Be Fluent In Japanese? にほんごわかりますか？

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    28. Why People Say Japanese Is Hard to Learn and Why They're Wrong Don't believe everything you hear.

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    30. Hentaigana: How Japanese Went from Illegible to Legible in 100 Years Very pretty text becomes readable text

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    31. How Little Epiphanies Add Up to Big Gains Level up your Japanese

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    32. The Kana, They Are A-Changin' The post-war attempts to change kana forever

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    35. Download Japanese Books for Free with Aozora Bunko! Tons of Japanese reading material absolutely free

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    36. Babigo: A Fun Japanese Language Game! The Japanese version of Ubbi Dubbi.

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    39. The Best Paid Services for Your Japanese Language Learning Use your money wisely

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