N3-N2

Language Deep Dive

Oct 15, 2026

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3 min read

Keigo is a direction marker, not a politeness dial. Three questions you can run mid-sentence.

N3-N2

Oct 12, 2026

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3 min read

Handwriting kanji mostly makes you better at handwriting kanji. The move worth keeping is writing from memory.

Vocabulary

Oct 1, 2026

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3 min read

Everyone says to switch to a Japanese-only dictionary around N2. We went looking for whoever decided that, and could not find them.

Language Deep Dive

Sep 28, 2026

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4 min read

Why every professor and grandfather in Japanese fiction talks the same way, where the form genuinely lives today, and why that difference matters.

N3-N2

Sep 17, 2026

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3 min read

Block what is new, shuffle what keeps losing, and leave alone what already works