Language Dec 3, 2018
A dash of hiragana in the 'foreign' soup
by Hannah Kunert and Peter Backhaus
Japanese words you'd think should be written in katakana will sometimes show up in hiragana. There's a cultural reason behind these rare switches.
Language | BILINGUAL Aug 18, 2014
Complicated characters: Let us now praise difficult kanji
by Daniel Morales
For beginner and intermediate students of Japanese, encountering a kanji such as 鬱 (utsu, depression) in the wild can be a somewhat traumatic event that, appropriately, induces a deep, introspective depression regarding their language ability. Let's pull out our electron microscopes and examine that ...