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005: A Wrong Turn Things go south…   Let’s continue talking about this formality and hierarchy stuff.   “I”  Out of these four levels it is important to be able to identify/distinguish oneself in Japanese. What this means is, the word “I” and “you” change depending on who you are addressing, and how you would…

004: Following What is Masa Doing?   Let’s take a quick pause from all of our intense grammar study and talk a little about greeting and levels of formality.  Japanese is a hierarchical language. This means that there are a number of levels of diction and respect. These levels are important to all parties because…

003: What is a Tengu? This is where the story starts picking up.   This week we are going to learn about another particle. This particle is in the top three of how commonly it is used. That is the possessive/Connective Particle の. No or のis often attributed to something like the ” ‘s ”…