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Japanese for Salon and Beauty Work
A salon appointment is an hour of conversation with someone who cannot leave, which is either the hardest part of the job or the best practice you will ever get.
6 min readJapanese for Doctors Working in Japan
Clinical Japanese has two halves: the technical vocabulary you can study, and the plain Japanese for explaining it to a frightened patient.
6 min readJapanese for Office and Administrative Work
Administrative work is the most keigo-intensive job most learners will take, and almost all of it is the same forty phrases.
6 min readLearning Japanese as a Nepali Speaker
Nepali gives you the shape of a Japanese sentence for nothing, which puts you ahead of most learners before you start.
7 min readLearning Japanese as a Burmese Speaker
Burmese and Japanese put their sentences together in almost the same order, which is a larger advantage than most learners realise.
7 min readLearning Japanese as a Sinhala Speaker
Sinhala already distinguishes long and short vowels, which removes the single hardest thing about Japanese pronunciation before you begin.
6 min readLearning Japanese as a Mongolian Speaker
Mongolian and Japanese are built on the same plan: agglutinative, verb-final, and marking roles with endings rather than with position.
6 min readLearning Japanese as an Uzbek Speaker
Uzbek builds sentences the way Japanese does, which means the grammar most learners struggle with will feel obvious to you.
6 min readLearning Japanese as a Turkish Speaker
Turkish speakers frequently report that Japanese grammar feels familiar, and the reason is structural rather than imagined.
6 min readLearning Japanese as a Bengali Speaker
Bengali hands you the shape of a Japanese sentence, and then the sound system asks for most of the work back.
6 min readLearning Japanese as a Khmer Speaker
Khmer puts its verb in the middle and Japanese puts it at the end, which is the first thing to change and the one that takes longest.
6 min readLearning Japanese as a Malay or Indonesian Speaker
Malay pronunciation prepares you well for Japanese vowels and not at all for Japanese rhythm.
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