Learn Japanese ～ながら: Doing Two Things at Once
Use ながら only when one single person is doing two actions at the exact same time, and put the action you actually care ab...
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Japanese Game ～たり～たり: Listing Actions
Use たり〜たりする when you're giving a couple of representative examples (implying there's more you're not saying) or describi...
Learn Japanese ～たことがあります: Talking About Experience
たことがあります means "I have experienced X before" with no specific time attached. The instant you name a date, a place-and-ti...
Japanese Game ～なければなりません: Saying You Have To
なければなりません literally means "if you don't do it, it won't be okay." That double negative adds up to "you must," and it shr...
Learn Japanese これ・それ・あれ: A Simple Guide
Pick これ if it's in your hands, それ if it's in theirs, and あれ if nobody's holding it right now — physical custody, not dis...
Learn Japanese です vs ます: What’s the Difference?
です attaches to nouns and adjectives, showing what something IS. ます attaches to verbs, showing what something DOES. They ...
Japanese Game Learn Kanji Through Games!
"Too many kanji to remember?""I can read JLPT N5/N4 kanji, but I can't write them…""I don't know the stroke order…"There...
Japanese Game Kana Blaster: Learn Hiragana Through Play
Learn Hiragana. Blast your way to faster reading.Kana Blaster is a quick Japanese learning game for beginners.See the hi...