Interesting Japanese: 午後夢中
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| Everyone knows the feeling: you’ve just had lunch, and you’re trying to get back into work/studying but you’re just…so…tired… Trust Japanese to have a word for that! That word…
LanguageCourse.Net Customer Satisfaction Excellence Award 2014
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A month of goodbyes..
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Book early for summer!
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Earthquake near Fukuoka
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Inspection Time at GenkiJACS!
| As an accredited member of the International Association of Language Centres (IALC), our Japanese schools in Tokyo and Fukuoka are regularly inspected to ensure that they are meeting the…
Farewell to Maiko-sensei
| Yesterday was Maiko-sensei’s last day as a teacher at GenkiJACS. She will be moving to Switzerland tomorrow to get married to her husband, whom she met at GenkiJACS! We…
Interesting Japanese – 暗黙のルール
| In relation to our previous post about the so-called “rules” of Valentine’s Day/White Day, an interesting term came up when we did some research on the topic: “暗黙のルール” (あんもくのルール…
Valentine’s Day and White Day
| One of our Japanese language students recently asked us what the appropriate way was to give return gifts on White Day. This is an interesting question indeed, and one…
“Berry” tasty and “berry” sweet!
| Strawberry-picking is a much-loved activity in Japan from December to May, but it is especially nice during the spring months, when the strawberries are ripe and sweet and the…