This month, I'm continuing on with N4 grammar points by talking about how to use the dictionary form with some new handy N4 expressions. This month, I'll go over tokoroda and souda. You can use tokoroda to express that you are just about to do something, just finished something, or are just in the middle [...]
I teach English as my day job, and I occasionally I teach hypothetical conditionals. In other words, ‘what if you were …’ type sentences. So, in the class, we ask questions like ‘What if you were a billionaire, what would you do?’ and students come up with answers like ‘If I were a billionaire, I [...]
Speaking is necessary to pass the test.
When preparing for the JLPT or the TOEIC (a popular English test in Japan), I usually tell students to do some speaking practice along with all the other studying that is required (drill practice, practice tests, reading practice, etc…) I mean, in general, you study a language to use it and so a lot of [...]
This part 6 in a continuing series of how to lock in N5 Japanese Kanji. With these mnemonics, you can build your own memory palace to lock in these characters so that you'll remember them forever (or at least a really long time). If this is your first time to see this series, you might [...]
If you read my review of the So-Matome N3 Grammar book a couple of weeks ago, you'll know that N3 is a different beast to tame. One that book publishers are still kind of guessing about. How much is on it? What kanji is on it? How difficult is the reading? And So-Matome, a fairly [...]
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