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New Japanese Learning Resources: April 2019 This month's best tools to help you to learn Japanese

基: Counting Big, Stable Things Use this to count all the Moai statues your neighbor set up on their front lawn

発: Counting Shots, Hits, Punches, and More POW! You're gonna learn this counter in 1発!

New Japanese Learning Resources: May 2019 This month's best tools to help you to learn Japanese

How to Live (And Sometimes Work) in Japan on Working Holiday: The Ultimate Guide The best way to get a working visa for Japan and then spend most of your time vacationing

面: Counting Masks, Binoculars, Land, and Generally Anything that Has a Surface Ironically, we'll be going way beyond the surface with this one

New Japanese Learning Resources: Summer 2019 This season's best tools to help you learn Japanese

だ and です : Venturing Beyond Textbook Rules into Real-Life Use Learn how style choice matters in authentic communication

New Japanese Learning Resources: Fall 2019 This season's best tools to help you learn Japanese

Ezura Farm: A Place You Can Be a Hokkaido Farmer Just for However Long You Want

Abashiri Prison Museum: The Perfect Place to Learn About How Prisoners Slept, Ate, Worked, Bathed (and Sometimes Escaped) Travel Back in Time to the Meiji Era to See, Feel, and Experience Japan's Northernmost Prison and Its History

Dezuka Suisan: Deep-Fried Fish Cakes, Hot and Fresh Welcome to the Flavor Capital of Northern Japan

カニの爪オブジェ: A Giant Crab Claw Sticking out of the Northern End of Japan The Largest Statue of Its Kind in the World (I Didn’t Double-Check, but I Am Pretty Sure)

New Japanese Learning Resources: Spring 2020 This season's best tools to help you learn Japanese

Aoi Ike Pond: Literally, "Blue Pond" Visit Hokkaido's Happy Little Accident, an "Unintentionally" Human-Made Pond.

Making Sense of な-Adjectives and の-Adjectives Do な-adjectives "always" take な? The answer is の (Pun Intended).

Coming Out in Japan From Pots and Pans to Alphabet Soup: Japanese Queer Identities in Context

Let's Think About "Thinking": 思う vs 考える Are You Thinking With Your Heart or Your Head?

Beyond the Binary: A Queer Take on Gendered Japanese How to Navigate Gendered Language no Matter your Identity

24 Other Ways You Can Say 考える Thought you knew everything about 考える and its synonyms? Think again!

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