• Channel your screen addiction: Changing your phone into Japanese will greatly increase your exposure to the written word, and exposure is what changes words from bits of kana and kanji into larger, more meaningful blocks. | KYODO
    Channel your screen addiction: Changing your phone into Japanese will greatly increase your exposure to the written word, and exposure is what changes words from bits of kana and kanji into larger, more meaningful blocks. | KYODO
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I live in Chicago these days, which isn’t exactly ideal for a student of the Japanese language. I have to make my own immersion, whenever I can, wherever I can, whether it’s reading a Japanese book or listening to a Japanese podcast.

I’ve come to think of these moments as a sort of 携帯 (keitai, portable) immersion, as it were. Keitai also happens to be a shortened form of 携帯電話 (keitai denwa, portable phone), and switching one of these into Japanese is an effective way to use 画面中毒 (gamen chūdoku, screen addiction) to your advantage and put language immersion in your pocket.

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