Ireland added to Japan’s Working Holiday visa list!
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| Students coming to GenkiJACS from Ireland are now eligible to apply for a Working Holiday visa, as of January 2007! Previously, the Working Holiday visa was only available for…
Addresses in Japan
| Even though U2’s song “Where the streets have no name” is about Africa, it applies just as well to Japan. Everyone who has lived here has had the experience…
Cellphones, is there anything you can’t do?
| A member of our staff purchased life insurance recently, and the salesperson came to the school to finalize the contract. After the staff member filled out the paper application,…
Taking the J-Test at GenkiJACS
| This is a very late announcement, but GenkiJACS is proud to be the newest test location for the J-TEST, a relatively new test of Japanese ability. We will be…
Hakata-ben kouza: negative forms
| Today’s feature of Hakata-ben is not unique to Fukuoka, but is still recognized as one of the characteristics of Hakata-ben. It is the method of saying the negative verb…
Katakana Pronunciation better than English?
| Many many moons ago, we had a “discussion” with a native speaker of English who was upset that the Japanese mangle the pronunciation of “coffee” as 「コーヒー」, among many…
GenkiJACS on tha Intarweb
| We know it’s hard to decide to pay the money and fly around the world to study at a school you can’t even be sure exists. That’s why we…
GenkiJACS Owner Interviewed on LoveFM
| LoveFM, Fukuoka’s international radio station, was kind enough to offer our owner an interview today on the “The Link” section of their Around the Globe show, with Susan Annoura.…
Japanese mnemonics
| As promised, here is a longer post on using mnemonics to study Japanese. As we mentioned previously, it’s quite easy to come up with mnemonics for Japanese because the…
GenkiJACS Summer Evaluation Results, part 2!
| Now for part 2 of the summer GenkiJACS evaluations! If you haven’t read it yet, we recommend you start with part 1, here. 4. Textbook No specific complaint about…