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【One Point Lesson】 Holiday Greetings

Hi everyone, welcome to our one point lesson. It’s our last blog update this year, so we would like to share the information of how to write new year’s greetings in Japanese.   To begin with, we don’t generally celebrate Christmas in Japan and it’s not a public holiday either. But we definitely enjoy the […]

【One Point Lesson】Before / After a noun

Hi everyone, welcome to our one point lesson. We would like to explain a grammar point about time words before and after a noun.   Noun の まえに (no maeni) means  Before noun, and Noun の あとで (no atode) means After noun まえ(mae) might be already familiar for you as the word for the position “in front of”. […]

【One Point Lesson】 Visible and Audible

Hi there, welcome to our one point lesson. It’s been so hot and dry in Canberra. We hope everyone is enjoying the hot weather! We would like to explain a grammar point; the difference between 見られる and 見える,  聞ける and 聞こえる. If you have already studied Japanese potential verbs,  you know 見られる is the regular […]

【One Point Lesson】Onomatopoeic Expressions

Hi everyone, welcome to our one point lesson. We would like to introduce some onomatopoeia today. They are very useful and so much fun so you should check them out! There are hundreds of onomatopoeic expressions, so we have picked out three of them that are commonly used and easy to remember for you. ・ぴかぴか (pika pika) […]

【One Point Lesson】Countries and Kanji

Hi there, welcome to our one point lesson. We will be adding a new post every Saturday, so please check them out! Today we would like to share some Kanji. Are you a beginner? That’s okay, this is not very difficult. 日(にち) nichi Japan 豪(ごう) gou Australia See? Only one Kanji for each country. In conversation, we […]