Dark Phoenix is the 12th installment of the X-Men film franchise. The movie centers around Jean Grey who gets hit by a solar flare during a space rescue mission and loses control of her abilities, …
A guide to Japanese Grammar: 3 (な adjectives, ～ところ, and turning い adjectives into nouns)
The last lesson covered い adjectives, now let’s get into another type of adjective– な adjectives, and then switch topics to another grammar point covering how to say you are “just about” to do something, …
3.2 Beta Update
We’re rolling out a big performance update for the Skritter: Write Chinese and Skritter: Write Japanese mobile beta apps! The update is already available to beta testers on Android and has been submitted to Apple …
A guide to Japanese Grammar: 2
In the first lesson, we learned how to say “Is” and “Is not”. Now let’s learn how to say “Was” and “Was not”, along with some new verbs, adjectives, and how to conjugate them! You …
A guide to Japanese Grammar: 1
Polite form, plain form, and “is” and “is not” Japanese is spoken in a polite form, or a plain form, depending on politeness levels and who you are speaking to. As a basic example, if …
Board Game words and phrases in Chinese
In this video post, we’ll teach you some common words and phrases to help you get playing board games in Chinese with your friends. Playing board games is excellent for Chinese learning for the following …
Olle learns Japanese, part 1: Hiragana
Looking back, I could have learnt Japanese instead of Chinese. After all, I practised Judo and Jujutsu for many years, I watched at least a hundred hours of anime (favourites are Ghost in the Shell …
Making Homemade Dumplings and Wontons
Watch Fiona make some homemade dumplings and wontons, teaching key Chinese words along the way.
Japanese words you probably mispronounce when speaking English (even though you know Japanese)
There are likely some Japanese words you pronounce with an accent when speaking English, even if you speak Japanese. This is often preferable to using the Japanese word as it’s pronounced in Japanese if you’re …
Things “opposite” in Japan and America
Whether it be the style of reading, or the order of the numbers we use for emergency calls, there are some things you might have noticed Japan and America do opposite compared to each other. …