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Speaking Japanese to a Boss and a Friend at Once
Your colleague is beside you and your manager has just joined, and the sentence you were halfway through is now in the wrong register.
7 min readTaking AI Speaking Practice Into Real Conversations
Your AI conversations are going well and the first real one still felt hard, which is not a sign the practice was wasted.
7 min readWhy Living With a Japanese Partner Does Not Fix Your Japanese
You speak Japanese at home every day and your Japanese has not moved in a year, which is one of the most common and least discussed situations in language learning.
7 min readSpeaking Japanese With Other Learners, Not Natives
Your colleagues are Vietnamese, Nepali and Brazilian, the shared language is Japanese, and most of your daily speaking is with people who are also learning it.
7 min readThe Second and Third Conversation in Japanese
You have a good self-introduction, and the second time you meet someone you cannot use any of it.
7 min readBeing Firm in Japanese Without Sounding Rude
You have learned to soften everything, and now a delivery company has your money and you cannot find the words to insist.
7 min readCancelling and Changing Plans in Japanese
Cancelling is a small piece of Japanese that arrives at the worst possible moment, when you are already flustered and short of time.
6 min readTalking About Stress and Difficult Feelings in Japanese
You can describe your weekend in Japanese and you cannot tell your doctor that you have not been sleeping.
7 min readExplaining Your Specialist Field in Japanese
You have fifteen years in your field and in Japanese you sound like someone describing it from the outside.
7 min readWorking a Room in Japanese at a Networking Event
You have the card exchange rehearsed and then you are standing with a drink, next to a stranger, with nothing after it.
7 min readSpeaking Japanese in Voice Chat and Online Games
Voice chat in a game is one of the few places a learner can speak Japanese for two hours without arranging anything.
6 min readThe Japanese N Sound and Why It Changes
The single kana for n is pronounced at least four different ways, and none of them is the n you already know.
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