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Wolverine actor owes much of his fame to his handsome face and bulging muscles, but it’s his heart and his voice that are captivating fans.
Come for the twist ending, stay for a useful Japanese vocabulary lesson.
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Meanings show hope for bold boys, beautiful girls in list of the most popular names of the Heisei era.
It’s not fire, and it’s not food, but every Japanese person immediately understands the symbol that has the rest of the world scratching their heads.
Linguistics professor explains the centuries-old background of the omnipresent anime and manga verbal tic.
Cashier follows customer’s request to the letter but still gives him the last thing he expected.
When you’re leaving the office before your coworkers, you don’t tell them “Sayonara,” you tell them “I’m being rude.”
Kanji are one of the hardest parts of leaning Japanese, but they’re easier when they have move sets related to their meanings.
Yeah, yeah, people say Japanese is a hard language to learn. But Beni shows that even a humble pooch can pick up some vocabulary.
“A little” shanking is requested, but that’s not the only weird thing about the baffling bits of Japanese flavor text.
New rules aims to close loophole that lets language school students spend as much of the year working full-time as attending class.
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