Speaking and pronunciation
Practical guides on speaking, grammar, pronunciation, listening, and study planning, written for learners who want to use Japanese in real life.
Speaking and pronunciation · Page 44
Japanese for Accounting and Finance Roles
Accounting Japanese is unusually written, which suits a learner, right up to the month-end meeting where it suddenly is not.
6 min readJapanese for Working in Real Estate in Japan
Property work in Japan is mostly explaining costs that surprise people, and doing it in a register that has to be exact.
6 min readJapanese for Business Chat and Team Messaging
Business chat in Japan is not email with the formalities removed, and it is not casual messaging with a few polite endings added.
6 min readFluency or Accuracy First in Japanese Speaking?
Every learner eventually picks a side without noticing: some speak quickly and let the particles fall where they may, others build each sentence correctly and never finish it.
7 min readHow to Record and Review Your Own Japanese Speaking
You cannot hear yourself accurately while you are speaking, because the part of your attention that would notice is busy producing the next sentence.
7 min readThe First Five Minutes of a Japanese Conversation
Most conversations that die in Japanese die in the first two minutes, not because of grammar but because nobody handed anybody a thread to pull.
7 min readAnswering Unexpected Questions in Japanese
You prepared for the questions you expected, and then somebody asked something else, and the whole rehearsed structure evaporated.
7 min readMemorised Phrases or Improvising in Japanese?
A memorised phrase is the fastest Japanese you will ever produce, and the most brittle: it works perfectly until the conversation asks for the version you did not learn.
7 min readJapanese Minimal Pairs: Hear and Say the Difference
If two Japanese words sound the same to you, they will sound the same when you say them, and that is where most persistent pronunciation problems begin.
7 min readWhat to Do With Your Japanese Speaking Mistakes
Most learners collect corrections and never look at them again, which is why the same mistake survives a hundred conversations.
7 min readSpeaking Japanese in Chunks, Not Single Words
Native speakers are not building every sentence from scratch, which is why they are faster than you even when the grammar is simple.
7 min readBuilding Stamina for Long Japanese Conversations
Your Japanese was fine for the first twenty minutes and then it collapsed, and the reason is not that you forgot it.
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