It is hard to tell if what I am doing is working!

Does this sound familiar? I am trying to work out where my efforts are best focused. I didn’t have many things I can read to get that sense of achievement to keep me going. I can’t find any resources that kept me entertained. I have tried to talk to...

Do I have to learn Hiragana and Katakana?

Let’s talk about Romaji… Romaji is the Roman alphabet used to write Japanese words. The good news is, if you are reading this, you already know Romaji. When you are first beginning to learn Japanese, Romaji is the representation of Japanese sounds using the western,...

I want to write letters – Business Japanese

I have never studied Business Japanese, in fact I have never really written in Japanese to anyone in a business environment (OK, I did once when I wrote a resume for a company in Fukuoka – but I had A LOT of help from my host father!). So, after many years of studying...