Due to several factors such as sentence structure and certain word ambiguities, English speakers trying to learn the Japanese language or Nihongo face an uphill battle. Some Japanese netizens seem to ...

Let’s face it—Japanese can feel like a language that belongs in a different world. Three scripts (Hiragana, Katakana, Kanji), thousands of characters, unfamiliar grammar rules, and an entire culture ...

When Nagiko Umino started out as a Japanese language teacher, she didn’t realize how much she would end up learning from her foreign students. Last year, she released Nihonjin no Shiranai Nihongo ...

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Japan Foundation will once again dispatch individuals from Japan to assist in teaching the Japanese language in Indonesian schools through the NIHONGO Partners program. This ...

Graduates of the Japanese Studies at the University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sally Chan (left) and Riki Walmsley (right). Credit: UNSW/Sally Chan/SBS We spoke to Sally Chan who now teaches Japanese ...

Kaiko to sensō to Nihongo: Ōbei no Nihon rikai wa kō shite hajimatta (Silkworms, War, and the Japanese Language: How the West Came to Understand Japan), written by the Japanese-language education ...

Learn Hiragana and Katakana: Just like English has A to Z, the Japanese language also has its own alphabet. Fun fact is that Japanese doesn’t use a single language. It uses three writing systems, ...

STUDENTS in premier government schools are given a choice to learn Japanese, which is one of the foreign languages offered to them other than French, German, Chinese or Arabic. The learning of ...

Listen to SBS Japanese Audio on Tue, Thu and Fri from 1pm on SBS 3. Replays from 10pm on Tue, Thu and Sat on SBS1.