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Sending Luggage in Japan: Takuhaibin Explained
You do not have to drag a suitcase onto a rush-hour train. For about two thousand yen, it can meet you at the next hotel.
6 min readWhat Your First AI Japanese Lesson Is Like
The most common reason people delay their first session is not knowing what they are supposed to do when it starts.
6 min readGetting Over the Fear of Speaking Japanese
You knew the sentence. You had it ready. Then someone looked at you and it was gone.
6 min readLearning Japanese Vocabulary in Context With AI
The words you remember are not the ones you studied. They are the ones you needed and did not have.
6 min readBuilding a Japanese Study Plan That Adapts
Every study plan survives until the first week you are busy, and what happens next decides whether you are still learning in six months.
6 min readRehearsing a Japanese Job Interview With AI
You will have prepared good answers. The question is whether they survive being asked in a room where the answer has to arrive in two seconds.
6 min readAI Practice or Language Exchange for Japanese?
One gives you unlimited patience and no relationship. The other gives you a relationship and about ten minutes of Japanese an hour.
6 min readPrivacy and Safety When Learning Japanese With AI
Speaking practice means handing over recordings of your voice, which is worth understanding before you have made a hundred of them.
6 min readTranslation Apps or Learning to Speak Japanese?
A translation app gets you through the conversation. Three years later it is still getting you through the conversation.
6 min readHow to Type Japanese on a Computer
Typing Japanese is not typing; it is typing a guess and then choosing which kanji the computer offers you.
5 min readUsing Japanese Voice Input to Check Your Speaking
Your phone will tell you, bluntly and for free, whether your Japanese is comprehensible.
5 min readLearning Japanese as an Italian Speaker
Italian already has the doubled consonant that defeats most learners of Japanese, which is a bigger advantage than it sounds.
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