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2021-09-19BLOGWe Language School

Learn 10 of The Most Used Japanese Onomatopoeias

An onomatopoeia is a word created to phonetically imitate the sound it describes. If you are learning the Japanese language you must know that it’s full of onomatopoeias. These words can be heard everywhere, from anime to everyday life in Japan. To learn more about Japanese and being able to speak it fluently, check our […]

2021-09-04BLOGWe Language School

Japanese Culture: Top 5 Most Successful Studio Ghibli Movies

If you are studying the Japanese language or are curious about Japan’s culture, you have to know about Studio Ghibli animated movies. They had such great success, that also the Netflix streaming platform is acquiring them worldwide (except for the USA, for now). Here’s an introduction about Studio Ghibli and its characteristics. In the second […]

2021-08-30BLOGWe Language School

Japanese Numbers: How to Count and 5 Basic Counters

If you are learning Japanese and are a European language native speaker, you know it’s hard to count. Japanese numbers have different pronunciations, and you have to use “counters”. Counters are used based on the type of thing you are counting. There’s one for objects in general, one for animals, one for people, one for […]

2021-08-23BLOGWe Language School

Learning New Languages Opens New Perspectives On The World

Learning a new language is not just about memorizing the grammatical, structural, and mechanical patterns of a language. It’s so much more than that. It’s a process of understanding the culture it stems from and the people who speak it. You can develop yourself through this process to form new perspectives about the world we […]

2021-08-10BLOGWe Language School

Japanese Vocabulary: 13 Summer Words You Need to Know

In this article we will explore 13 Japanese words related to the Summer season in Japan. This is the season known for the high humidity, rainy period, summer festivals, bathing in the sea, and much more! We will talk about traditional things to find during Summer festivals, the most important one, the Obon, and also seasonal […]

2021-07-31BLOGWe Language School

Origami: The Japanese Art Of Paper Folding – How to create a Paper Crane

Origami – 折り紙 is the Japanese popular art of paper folding. This art implies transforming a simple sheet of paper into any object you can think of. It can be an animal, a decorating object, a flower, an envelope, or even a toy. They can be two-dimensional and three-dimensional subjects. You only need a piece […]

2021-07-21BLOGWe Language School

Learning Japanese Online: The Best Way to Learn it

Learning the Japanese language is a rich, exciting process full of growth and development for the student and teacher alike. Anyone interested in culture, language, and learning new things knows how much a student can gain by starting to learn a new language. In this article, we are going to look at why learning Japanese […]

2021-07-12BLOGWe Language School

How to visit a Shinto Shrine: Purification Steps and Legendary Treasures

Do you know how to enter a Shinto shrine? And how to correctly purify yourself before paying respect to a kami? Here is our guideline about a proper Shinto shrine visit, and notions on the objects you will find there. Try to follow these simple steps to immerse yourself in the Japanese culture. Go to […]

2021-06-28BLOGWe Language School

Religion in Japan: what is Shinto and its practices

Have you ever seen the iconic gateway that seems to be floating on water? That’s the famous Torii of Itsukushima island (or Miyajima), in the southwestern part of Japan. A Torii is the archway to access a Shinto shrine. It’s well known that in Japan people often practice Shinto as well as Buddhism or another […]

2021-06-17BLOGWe Language School

Japanese Particles Explained: How to Master Japanese Sentence Structure

We already saw that particles are a vital part of the Japanese language, because they state the grammatical function of the noun or nouns they are referring to. On the other hand, there are some Japanese particles which are put at the end of the sentence, after the verb, which emphasize the purpose of the […]