Archive - Fast Path To Japanese

Check Out The New Home

You may have noticed that I haven’t posted here for a while. That doesn’t mean I’ve quit, it just means I’ve moved to a new location. I invite you all…

Apr 13, 2024

August 2022

Language Islands

Keep from drowning in your conversations

Aug 2, 2022

Getting Started With Verbs

There's more than "masu"

Aug 2, 2022

July 2022

Finding Your Motivation

How to light your own fire

Jul 24, 2022

September 2021

Your First Monolingual Dictionary

As you progress in your language acquisition journey, a useful tactic is to switch to a monolingual dictionary, Japanese-Japanese, as soon as you are…

Sep 16, 2021

January 2021

The Problem With Academic Methods

Or, "How three years of Russian failed me."

Jan 4, 2021

December 2020

Step One: Learn The Kana

Japanese has three different writing systems (four if you count their use of the Roman alphabet, known as “romaji”): katakana, hiragana and kanji. The…

Dec 21, 2020

A very useful habit that I stumbled on almost by accident is that of “shadowing,” in which one listens to and speaks along with native audio.

Dec 13, 2020

My Journey To Japan

For new readers who don’t know me (yet), I have been going to Japan for work and play for about 30 years now and used to live in Tokyo while working for…

Dec 13, 2020

Language acquisition the fast way.

Welcome to Fast Path To Japanese. I’m a lifelong language nerd who’s worked and lived in Japan and want to share what’s worked for me learning 日本語. Sign…

Dec 13, 2020

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