Comme ça du Japon

If you have ever wondered how young japanese children eat their meal, then this photo is the answer. As you can see this is a quite odd 箸 (Hashi) “pair of chopsticks”. There is a ring on one of the stick and a U-shaped element on the other. Children are taught to slide their 薬指 […]

I just can’t get tired of learning the Japanese language. One of the main reason that makes learning Japanese language such a thrill is discovering words like とかく (ToKaKu). Here is the sentence that made me look up this strange word in my electronic dictionnary.

いずれにしても、先輩や年長者の言うことは、傾聴するに値するといった戒めですが、とかく若い人たちは年長者を尊敬するよりも、軽くみるといった風潮が強くあります。

Izure ni shite mo, senpai ya nenchôsha no iu koto ha, […]