Welcome to my Kanji Stroke Order Guide, or 漢字筆順ガイド kanji hitsujun gaido.

This guide is intended to be an easy to read resource on how to write 漢字 kanji, also known as “Japanese characters” or “Chinese characters”.

I am writing this article for those people who decided that they “don’t like anime” because they found them too… stupid. Well, I can’t blame you.

If you have reached intellectual adulthood, then most anime are indeed too stupid for you.

For many people, counting to ten is the first thing that they learn when approaching a new language. Japanese has more than one way of counting. Let’s start.

In this post we will explore some of the expression in the Japanese language to remark on someone or something’s ‘coolness’, as in attractive/fashionable.

The word you are looking for is かっこいい kakkoii, which is normally used to describe men, boys and also objects.

Let’s start with considerations on its orthography and pronunciation.

Since its birth in 1889, Nintendo had a huge role in shaping the collective imagination of many generations. Titles like Super Mario, Donkey Kong and Zelda have turned millions of people into videogamers.

Now let’s turn attention to Nintendo’s very first puzzle game, a tiny Easter egg hidden in plain sight: “What is the meaning of Nintendo?”

How do you say “welcome!” in Japanese? What better topic to start a blog about Japan. :-)

Let’s explore the three main ways of welcoming people and some of their variations. We’ll see how context plays an important role, and the subtle differences that exist between different expressions.