Comme ça du Japon

The most difficult thing in learning Japanese is probably learning the multitude of Kanji. If with some effort and perseverance, it is quite possible to learn how to read the Japanese Kanji, it’s much harder to learn how to write the Japanese Kanji. The main reason being that there are very few circumstances where you […]

While I was strolling around 川崎 (Kawasaki) “Kawasaki”, which will be the subject of the next podcast, I found an interesting Kanji that I didn’t know of : 蛤 (Hamaguri). It is made of the combination of Kanji for 虫 (Mushi) “Insect” and 合 (Gô) “joint”. Given that the classification of animal species is […]

The french version of the japanese proverbs started in 2005 contains more than 160 proverbs ! I just started the english translation here : japanese proverbs. Each proverb is explained and an english equivalent is given where possible. Feel free to participate to the translation or other parts of the wiki on japanese and french […]

へのへのもへじ (HeNoHeNoMoHeJi) is more than likely the oldest japanese 絵文字 (EMoJi) “émoji“. “An emo-what ?!”. émoji is a 絵 (E) “drawing” made of 文字 (MoJi) “characters”. In other words, it is equivalent of the smileys used in chat messaging : . However, you don’t need to turn your head to decipher 絵文字 […]