Shadowing is a language learning technique developed by linguistic professor and famous polyglot Alexander Arguelles. It is a modern language learning technique defined by taking in large amounts of audio in your target language and carefully picking out the sounds of the language and repeating them. You can find books for sale that teach Japanese … Continue reading 4 Ways Shadowing Boosts Your Japanese
Welcome back! Let's learn a few more hiragana this time. Do you remember the tenten which modify the sound of consonants from the previous lesson? We saw them applied to the hiragana for "k" sounds like this: Review: か ka, which with tenten becomes が ga、 き ki, which with tenten becomes ぎ gi、 く ku, which … Continue reading Learn Hiragana For Beginners (Part 2)
Let's learn how to read Japanese. I'm making this series as a prequel of sorts to my introduction to learning kanji. While hiragana is not required for that lesson, already having a good foundation in the sounds and phonetic letters that make up Japanese is the ideal way to get into Kanji. What's the secret … Continue reading Learn Hiragana For Beginners (Part 1)
