This week for my RocketNews24 W.T.F. Japan article, I wrote about the top five “shikata ga nai” (“it can’t be helped”) situations in Japan
This was a fun article to write, mostly because all of the situations are really little more than mild inconveniences, so I went all-out in exaggerating the kind of reactions people can have to them. I think there are more bald eagles in this one article than every other I’ve written thus far.
What does that even mean? Only one way to find out!
This week for my RocketNews24 W.T.F. Japan article, I wrote about the top five kanji with the longest readings.
I love doing articles on “the most ___ kanji ever” because I used to get asked those questions so often by my students. And back then I didn’t really have any answers besides what Google brought up, and that wasn’t always the most reliable source.
But now, thanks to my readily-available references in Japan, I can write articles to give any enterprising Japanese students the answers they desperately need. Which kanji are the most difficult? Which kanji are the strangest?
We now know the answers to those very important questions, and now the answer to which have the longest readings can be yours to know too.
This week for my RocketNews24 W.T.F. Japan article, I wrote about the top five confusing Japanese hand gestures.
A few months back I did the top five hand gestures that Japanese people don’t understand, which people seemed to like. So it felt like time to do the reverse of that and show off some Japanese gestures that we have trouble understanding.
There’s a couple of gestures on this list that are either identical or very close to gestures we do outside of Japan, so it’s fun to see how they have different meanings in another culture
Although even better than those are the gestures that simply don’t exist outside Japan and confuse the heck out of anyone seeing them for the first time.
What are they? Find out!
This week for my RocketNews24 W.T.F. Japan article, I wrote about the top five most difficult Japanese tongue twisters.
Even if you don’t know any Japanese, it’s still fun to try out tongue twisters in another language. After all, it’s not like the tongue twisters themselves make a whole lot of sense anyway, it’s just sputtering the sounds out that counts.
In fact, since your non-native tongue is trained in different ways, it may even make it easier! …or not!
Either way, there’s only one way to find out.
