#jakwow

  皆さん、こんにちは！遅いので、あけましておめでとうございます！今年もJAKWaveをよろしくお願い致します！

[Minna-san, konnichiwa! Osoinode, akemashite omedetou gozaimasu! Kotoshi mo JAKWave wo yoroshiku onegaiitashimasu!]

Hi, everyone! Although it’s late, happy new year! Please look favorably on JAKWave again this year too!

じゃ、始めたいと思います！　[Jya, hajimetai to omoimasu!] Let’s start! Today, we’ll look at 5 useful verbs. After all, you can’t put…

皆さん、こんにちは！今週のJAKWOWを始めましょうか?[Konnichiwa, minna-san! Konshū no JAKWOW-J o hajimemashou ka?]

Hi everyone! Shall we start this week’s JAKWOW-J?

Today, we’ll be learning one of my recent favourite words – 了解!

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JAKWOW-J #17 – Daily greetings!

皆さん、こんにちは！今週のJAKWOWを始めましょうか?[Konnichiwa, minna-san! Konshū no JAKWOW-J o hajimemashou ka?]

Hi everyone! Shall we start this week’s JAKWOW-J?

Did you all miss JAKWOW-J? It’s been a week or two, because I’ve now moved to Tokyo! Look forward to lots of lessons as I continue my learning too, on a much more intense basis. Thanks to the fact I’m now living in dorms, I’ve finally realized the true…

JAKWOW-J #16 – Body parts

皆さん、こんにちは！今週のJAKWOWを始めましょうか?[Konnichiwa, minna-san! Konshū no JAKWOW-J o hajimemashou ka?]

Hi everyone! Shall we start this week’s JAKWOW-J?

This week we’ll be taking a look at the names for parts of the body, as well as a few useful phrases in case you get hurt and needed to see a doctor.  (more…)

JAKWOW-J #15! – More language terms

皆さん、こんにちは！今週のJAKWOWを始めましょうか?[Konnichiwa, minna-san! Konshū no JAKWOW-J o hajimemashou ka?]

Hi everyone! Shall we start this week’s JAKWOW-J?

Carrying on from last week’s post with language-related vocab, it’s time to look at some more. After all, it’s much easier to learn languages when you can ask questions about it without resorting to English!

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こんにちは皆さん！今週のJAKWOWを始めましょうか?[Konnichiwa, minna-san! Konshū no JAKWOW-J o hajimemashou ka?]

Hi everyone! Shall we start this week’s JAKWOW-J?

There are many situations when you need to contrast things, be it while stating an argument or just in daily conversation, so today we’ll look at a few different ways to state these contrasts.

~に対して… [ni taishite]

Unlike…

This shows a clear contrast between…

JAKWOW-J #10 – Wasei Eigo #1!

こんにちは皆さん！今週のJAKWOWを始めましょうか?[Konnichiwa, minna-san! Konshū no JAKWOW-J o hajimemashou ka?]

Hi everyone! Shall we start this week’s JAKWOW-J?

This week, we’ll be going along the same line as JAKWOW-K  by looking at 和製英語 [wasei eigo], or  ‘Japanese-made English’.

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こんにちは皆さん！今週のJAKWOWを始めましょうか?[Konnichiwa, minna-san!onshū no JAKWOW o hajimemashou ka?]

It’s around this time of year that all language students’ hell begins.. the dreaded exam period. Specifically, speaking exams are pretty hard for all of us! So this week, we’ll be looking at the most useful phrase (in my opinion) for a speaking exam, although it can be used in almost any situation! (more…)