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A cutting comeback from a Japanese-proficient foreigner leaves one man with a permanent emotional scar, but there are softer ways to make your point too.

Japan
(COK • foreigners in Japan • Japanese language • language • learning japanese • linguistics • society)

Announcing the 2019 Junior and Senior High School Girls’ Buzzword Awards & 2020 predictions

Krista Rogers
Dec 9, 2019

Find out this year’s trendiest slang for Japanese female teenagers and you’ll be grouped in the cool crowd while strutting the streets of Shibuya.

Japan
(AMF • awards • buzzwords • high school girls • JC • JK • junior high school girls • language • predictions • Rika Shiiki • trends)

Japanese hit song “Paprika” goes global with English version by new singers and dancers

Master Blaster
Dec 4, 2019

In case you’re wondering why your kids are doing something like the “Thriller” dance all of a sudden.

Japan
(2020 Olympic Games • Foorin • Foorin Team E • Kenshi Yonezu • language • music • paprika)

Test your knowledge of Japanese convenience stores with this katakana puzzle

Oona McGee
Aug 27, 2019

There’s a trick to this riddle that’s staring you right in the eyes.

Japan
(convenience stores • Katakana • konbini • language • language learning • learning japanese • twitter)

Language misunderstanding causes anger from Japanese TikTok users over “beached whale shark”

Scott Wilson
Jul 28, 2019

Paying attention is important, both online and in English class.

Japan
(anger • language • language fail • misunderstanding • sand sculpture • TikTok • twitter • whale sharks)

What’s the real meaning of Japan’s “burning tofu” emoji?

Casey Baseel
Nov 30, 2018

It’s not fire, and it’s not food, but every Japanese person immediately understands the symbol that has the rest of the world scratching their heads.

Global, Internet, Japan
(emoji • funny • kids • language • linguistics • society • tofu • tulips • weird)

Japanese study tip: Imagine kanji characters as fighting game characters, like in this cool video

Casey Baseel
Sep 15, 2018

Kanji are one of the hardest parts of leaning Japanese, but they’re easier when they have move sets related to their meanings.

Japan
(clever • cool • fighting games • funny • Japanese language • kanji • language • learning japanese • linguistics • video games)

Japanese man complains about foreign languages on Tokyo train, Twitter drowns him in kindness

Casey Baseel
Aug 22, 2018

”This is Japan, you know?” he asks, but others want to show him the ways of the modern world.

Global, Japan
(COK • internationalism • language • linguistics • society • trains • travel)

Tokyo hotel asks guests to take their used toilet paper with them【Why Does Engrish Happen?】

Casey Baseel
Aug 22, 2018

Translation trouble strikes as hotel ends up making a very awkward request.

Japan
(bathrooms • COK • funny • gross • hotels • Japanese language • language • linguistics • Toilets • weird • Why Does Engrish Happen?)

Japanese Internet sad to see the word “chikan” becoming commonly used in English

Casey Baseel
Aug 17, 2018

The country was proud when “emoji” and “anime” became part of English-speakers’ vocabulary. But when the British government uses the Japanese word for “train gropers?” Not so much.