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Before eating a meal, Japanese people say いた？だきます which means "Did it exist? Well then I will hug it.", a statement reflecting the long tradition of animism and respect which pervades the culture.
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Japan actually just has one person it in. Everyone you see when you go there are just manifestations of a singular entity that has existed unchanged for all time. Their name is Mina. Or, if you are being polite, which Japanese of course always are always no matter what, Minasan. twitter.com/sam_d_1995/sta…
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I'm 1/2 done, so I'm going to announce something I've told literally no one but my wife: I'm writing an intermediate #Japanese textbook. This will cover the content of books like Genki II + a bit more, and builds directly off my introductory ones. I will also release it for free.
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This image goes viral every year or so with some comments about how "wacky" or "crazy" Japanese is. It's a funny sentence, for sure, but there's nothing bizarre here.
First let's just check out what's going on, and how the five sentences work:
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When I did my first homestay in Japan, I brought out a gift for my host parents and did the whole つまらないものですが thing and they laughed in my face. twitter.com/takashionary/s…
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Listen kids, I know doing taxes isn't fun, but don't give your SSN to the anime waifu. twitter.com/HD_Kirin/statu…
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Looks like it's time to repost this meme I made last year twitter.com/Bakarichigi/st…
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Most Japanese birds can speak three languages, because they are 鳥リンガル
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Looking to start studying #Japanese? Just a reminder that I offer free complete textbooks on my website. And I've just updated the Level 1 textbook to feature clearer explanations, improvements to the workbook, and more. Hope it helps your Japanese study!
wesleycrobertson.wordpress.com/free-resources/
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An intermediate guide to giving/receiving verbs in #Japanese
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New, more elegant version of 草 just dropped
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Four quick guides to #Japanese grammar forms you absolutely shouldn't use (but might need to know).
Re-upload due to the embarrassing number of typos on the prior ones.
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An intermediate guide to the passive, causative, and causative-passive in #Japanese (1/2)
This guide assumes mastery of plain form, ～て（いる） forms, and giving verbs. I do not recommend it otherwise, as you may get confused using the forms here before learning the others.
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If you want to get better at keigo, one of the BEST guides I've ever found, assuming you speak Japanese, are at Bizkeigo (bizkeigo.koakishiki.com/scenes/). Their scene-based dialogues between a dog and a teacher (yes, seriously) are fantastic breakdowns. twitter.com/dwvcd/status/1…
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Hi! Did you like those beginner #Japanese guides I made but thought "these would be better if they weren't blurry jpegs, and if they had less typos in them"? Well guess what, I made them into PDFs and fixed everything!
You can download all 5 here:
wesleycrobertson.wordpress.com/2022/11/05/beg…
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A beginner's guide to の, と, and sentence final particles in #Japanese
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A basic/beginners guide to using い and な adjectives in #Japanese
Sociolinguist @Macquarie_Uni @LanguagesMQ. @Brutalinguist co-host. Studies #Japanese script, media, language, and #metal. #日本語 の文字や #メタル や翻訳を研究する社会言語学者. He/Him.