According to the Foreign Service Institute, Japanese is one of the hardest languages for native English speakers to learn. Requiring an average of 88 weeks to achieve speaking and reading proficiency (source), you’re not going to master it overnight. While you’re in Japan, you’re going to need to know some basic Japanese. Sometimes, you may…
The weekend of February 9-12, 2018 was an undergraduate holiday at TUJ, meaning we had no school on Friday or Monday. While I am not sure why they decided to take Friday off, the reason we have no school on February 12 is because that’s Japan’s National Founding Day, or basically their Fourth of July.…
This post is a modified version of an assignment I wrote for my Practical Japanese class. This post is also written from the perspective of a dumb American who barely knows what Setsubun is, so please forgive me. I will update the post with corrections as I see fit. Saturday, February 3, 2018 was not…
When writing a letter or sending a package in the US, you send your mail to an address formatted similarly to the following. Firstname Lastname 123 ABC Street Anytown, Anystate 12345 (USA) A similar addressing system applies to most European countries as well. For example, a French address would read as follows. …