Have you ever struggled to understand a presentation by a scholar with a strong Japanese accent? Last week I wrestled with the speech of a brilliant young psychology lecturer visiting from Japan. For ...

Japanese adjectives conjugate to become adverbs. We can change I adjectives that end with syllable I, such as HAYAI (early), to adverbs by changing the final I to KU. So, HAYAI becomes HAYAKU. If ...

Now you can learn Japanese grammar with cute cartoon illustration – via James from Japan Probe. Global Voices stands out as one of the earliest and strongest examples of how media committed to ...

You have been learning basic Japanese for one year. As you have noticed, we choose either the polite or the casual way of speaking, depending on our relation with the listener. Anna always speaks in ...

Japanese dictionaries list verbs in this form. If you use this form, you sound more casual. There are a number of ways to make "the MASU-form of verbs" into "the dictionary form." First, if a verb has ...

If the verb in the predicate of a sentence expresses the existence of something, such as IMASU (to be, to exist), NI indicates where something is or exists. For example, "I am at the station" is ...