Haruka

Haruka is an editor and author of Japan Dictionary. She has lived, studied, worked, and traveled in many different countries. She uses her experience to share useful information about Japan with you.

Japanese Writing Checklist for Beginner and Intermediate

Japanese writing is not that easy, …right? Actually, Japanese writing is difficult even for Japanese children. In elementary school, they learn to write naturally through composing practices over and over again. In this article, we introduce a writing checklist that elementary schoolers actually use. You can use this list to check your Japanese writing, too!(The …

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33 Frequently Used Japanglish Quiz

和製英語 (わせいえいご “Invented-in-Japan English”) is an English (or other languages)-like word created in Japan and used differently from its original meaning in the language. It is sometimes called “Japanglish” (Japanese + English) because it is used uniquely in Japanese.We have collected only Japanglish words that are frequently used in daily conversation. How many of the …

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