Japanese people say “abunai” to mean ‘dangerous’ in Japanese. Very simple, I think. In this blog post, however, I will explain this word with an…
There are some homophones in Japanese. When native speakers use “koto” in a sentence, however, it most probably works to make a noun phrase or…
Japanese people often say “ano” to mean ‘well’, ‘hey’, or perhaps ‘excuse me’ in Japanese. It is an interjection. In this blog post, however, I…
There are many different usages of a Japanese word, “demo”. First, it’s used to mean ‘protest/political march’. Second, it’s used to mean ‘teaching something through…
The first difficulty which Japanese people would face in studying English is the difference between singular and plural nouns. In Japanese, we rarely differentiate them.…
In the last article, I talked about the ambiguity between Japanese singular and plural nouns through the following proverb: Me kara uroko ga ochiru 目から鱗が落ちる(めからうろこがおちる)…