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Daniel Morales

Everyone learning Japanese needs a senpai - this podcast is your digital senpai. Join Daniel from HowToJapanese.com and guests to learn what strategies have been effective for them as they study, live, and work in Japan and using Japanese.

How to Japanese Podcast

This month I look at three paragraphs from an essay by Kakuta Mitsuyo. These three paragraphs have an interesting combination of 常体 (jōtai, direct style) and 敬体 (keitai, distal style), which gives me another opportunity to talk about written and spoken Japanese. And I also address のだ (no da)/のです (no desu), the little bit of language that comes at the end of clauses and sentences. Check out the blog and newsletter for links to some of the essays I wrote about, including the review of drinkable mayonnaise.
 
Feel free to reach out with any questions or 悩み事 to howtojapanese@gmail.com.
 
You can also follow How to Japanese on Substack, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook.

Episode 59 - のです

The How to Japanese Podcast launches next week! Check out this preview of the pod and hear the voices you'll get to know over the next ten weeks.
 
Feel free to reach out with any questions or 悩み事 to howtojapanese@gmail.com.
 
You can also follow How to Japanese on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook.

S01E00 - Season 1 Trailer

In the first episode of the How to Japanese Podcast, hear from Daniel McCalla, a translator based outside of Kobe. Learn reading and studying strategies, how to get started in translation, and how to track what you've read in Japanese.
 
At the top of the show, Daniel Morales reminisces about the brief heyday of the NFL on Japanese Twitter.
 
Feel free to reach out with any questions or 悩み事 to howtojapanese@gmail.com.
 
You can also follow How to Japanese on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook.

S01E01 - Daniel McCalla

Emily Balistrieri is a Russian translator in another universe. Fortunately for us, she's a Japanese translator in this one. Hear about Emily's translation projects past and present, study experience, and why Japanese eventually beat out Russian.
 
Feel free to reach out with any questions or 悩み事 to howtojapanese@gmail.com.
 
You can also follow How to Japanese on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook.

S01E02 - Emily Balistrieri

Brian MacDuckston is the brain and tastebuds behind Ramen Adventures. He's become one of the foremost ramen experts in Japan and has generously been collaborating with How to Japanese for many years. Learn how he got started in Japan, his study strategies, and his take on why Japan is so obsessed with great cuisine.
 
Feel free to reach out with any questions or 悩み事 to howtojapanese@gmail.com.
 
You can also follow How to Japanese on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook.

S01E03 - Brian MacDuckston

Paula Curtis is a historian of pre-modern Japan currently with the Yale Macmillan Center Council on East Asian Studies. She runs the popular website "What can I do with a B.A. in Japanese Studies?" (https://shinpaideshou.com/) and has put together an oral history of a well-known wooden top artisan in Japan (https://carvingcommunity-dentouart.com/). Hear our conversation about graduate studies, teaching, and how you, too, can "do" history.
 
Feel free to reach out with any questions or 悩み事 to howtojapanese@gmail.com.
 
You can also follow How to Japanese on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook.

S01E04 - Paula Curtis - Graduate Studies, Medieval Japanese, and How to "Do" History

Arline Lyons is a Japanese to English translator who specializes in life sciences, IT, and sake. We discuss her time on the JET Program, masters programs in translation, translation memory, and how to commit to your language study and translation practice at the same time.
 
Feel free to reach out with any questions or 悩み事 to howtojapanese@gmail.com.
 
You can also follow How to Japanese on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook.

S01E05 - Arline Lyons - JET Program, Translation Memory, Specializing as a Translator

Brian Caster is an attorney working in compliance in Tokyo. We met through the JET Alumni Association. I was curious to learn more about his study process, in particular how he learned to read because he is one of the most voracious readers I've ever met. We also discuss legal work in Japan.
 
Feel free to reach out with any questions or 悩み事 to howtojapanese@gmail.com.
 
You can also follow How to Japanese on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook.

S01E06 - Brian Caster - Reading in Japanese, Self Study, Legal Work in Japan

Tamara Latham-Sprinkle has been a full-time Japanese-English freelance translator for a year. We talk about breaking into the world of translation, different translation associations, getting a masters in translation, and working as an interpreter at a manufacturing company.
 
Feel free to reach out with any questions or 悩み事 to howtojapanese@gmail.com.
 
You can also follow How to Japanese on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook.

S01E07 - Tamara Latham-Sprinkle - Professional Translation, Masters Programs, Translation Associations

Kristi Fernandez has translated a number of light novels, manga, and drama. She's also the creator of the group Japanese Translators of New York and a champion for translators on Twitter. We talked Japanese study and light novel translation.
 
Feel free to reach out with any questions or 悩み事 to howtojapanese@gmail.com.
 
You can also follow How to Japanese on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook.

S01E08 - Kristi Fernandez - Translation Twitter, Light Novels and Manga, Translation Process

Adjectives in Japanese are not always what they appear to be! I think part of this is because they function as what I call "performative adjectives." One of my sixth-grade students helped me finally understand what かわいそう meant. And in Japanese I discuss 系 and how it helped me explain myself.
 
Feel free to reach out with any questions or 悩み事 to howtojapanese@gmail.com.
 
You can also follow How to Japanese on Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook.

S02E06 - Performative Adjectives and 系

S02E06 - Performative Adjectives and 系

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