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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

This month I introduce another "Impossible Pair," which I first wrote about back in September 2024. The pair I introduce: the words 状態 (jōtai) and 状況 (jōkyō). One way to differentiate these is size, but the other is a time element. I think I've hit on an interesting way to think about these. Check out the newsletter for more, and the blog for how 状態 gets used with Pokemon.
 
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 60 - 状態・状況

This month is all about acquisition. Specifically the appraisal and acquisition of new Japanese. I argue that a "collector's mindset" can help benefit students. It's how I recently acquired the new phrase あとになってわかったこと. Listen in to learn about what it means. And check out the blog here, and the newsletter here this month.
 
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, Bluesky, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook.

Episode 61 - あとになってわかったこと

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

のだ is one of the subtler, more difficult-to-use Japanese grammar patterns, but employing it in your spoken Japanese is a quick way to sound more natural. This month in the podcast and newsletter, I look at how to use it in written Japanese. I also have a follow-up on kanji from last month and a (mostly) spoiler-free review of 君たちはどう生きるか (The Boy and the Heron) at the end. Check out the newsletter here and the blog for additional content.
 
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 42 - のだ

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