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Learn the Two ways to say “Maybe” in Japanese

The word “maybe” is also commonly use in the English language, same goes to the Japanese language. There are two ways to say it. Using “tabun”たぶん or “kamoshirenai”かもしれない. Let’s find out how. [Read more →]

Learn How to Use “-tekara” and “ato de” to Say After Doing Something

Good day to all! Once again, we have another daily update of Japanese grammar and tenses. In this post, we shall learn how to use -tekara てから and ato de あとで to tell someone “later” or “after” in Japanese. てから is useful when use together with verbs to tell someone that after doing this particular action, another action will occur. As for あとで, its the equivalent of “later”. Let’s find out how to use them. [Read more →]

Use The “to” Particle To Tell Two Occurrences That Will Happen in Japanese

The other day, we talk about using と and や particles to state presence of objects. And today, you will learn on using the と particle to express two occurrences that will happen. Useful for making explanation to people. Let’s find out. [Read more →]

Learn How to say “its ok to” and “it’s ok not to” in Japanese

To use it successfully, remember this new grammar call -temoても. Very useful when you want to inform someone if its ok to do something or its ok not to do something. Let’s get to the examples [Read more →]

Learn how to Connect and Identify the two types of Japanese Adjectives

Describing an object using an adjective is useful but what if a certain object contains more than one property? That’s where you have to learn how to connect adjectives together. Remember there are two types of adjectives in the Japanese language. The -naな and the -iい adjective are being use daily in the Japanese language. A lot of new Japanese learners gets confuse or use wrongly with these two type of adjectives. [Read more →]

A Better Understanding on Japanese Particles part 2

Previously, we mention on understanding Japanese particles part 1, where we covered the waは, gaが, noの, and niに particles. Today we will cover on the remaining particles, namely deで, heへ kaか and woを.

The “de” particle can be quite confusing with the “ni” particle. And yes of course, the famous sentences that most of you Japanese learners come across is  [Read more →]

A Better Understanding on Japanese Particles part 1

There are 8 particles being use in the Japanese language. Namely (wa)は, (ga)が, (no)の,(ni)に, (de)で, (he)へ (ka)か and (wo)を. Let’s get into details of each particle.

The (wa)is use for introducing new information or use for changing topics. The (wa) particle can even be use to emphasis certain things. But let’s get down to the basic first. [Read more →]

How to show progression in Japanese using the -teiru form

Let’s say you are doing something. Like say for example, eating. You probably would want to tell a friend, I am eating in Japanese. So today we will learn on using -ている -teiru form.

たべる becomes たべている which means “Eating”

And to add the polite -masu form [Read more →]