Monthly Archives: February 2023

Why Kanji in 2023? – Response to Gaijin Otousan

A person I follow on twitter (Gaijin Otousan) asked a very good question recently. Why use Kanji in 2023? Why multiple character sets? Why no spaces between words? As a person who has done pretty intensive studies in learning Kanji … Continue reading

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Can You Get God Level Japanese with Subtitles?

Today i’m going to give you a quick breakdown of the massive advantages of utilizing simultaneous subtitles.  Before I go into this, let’s discuss the elephant in the room. To utilize this information you already need to be able to read … Continue reading

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5 Steps To Stop Yourself From Quitting on a Bad Day (Japanese)

Today was one of those days where I literally felt the stress rise from my toes up to my brain. I skimmed through a book I printed quite some time ago, a self-organized word list of the first 5,000 high … Continue reading

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Japanese Novel Reading Ability in Less than a Year?

Like many of you, i’ve dreamed of the day i’d be able to tackle a Japanese novel. As I get deeper and deeper into my learning systems having studied (5) languages, I am starting to see a ‘unified pattern’ emerging, … Continue reading

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