by Christine Kitajima | Nov 7, 2017 | Food, Japanese
Ogenki desuka? If you’re like, “Huh?!” you obviously did not read my previous Japanese blog. How rude! JK I don’t blame you. 😛 I have been on several PacSet tours now: Fire & Ice, Animated Spring, and Taste of Japan. Each tour has been a...
by Christine Kitajima | Oct 18, 2017 | Japanese, Slang
Welcome to the first post of “J-Slang,” where I write slang that should sometimes never be repeated! 😛 Why?! Because Japanese should be a beautiful, eloquent language, not dirty, and rough! Japanese language is so difficult. Being Japanese but born in the...
by Christine Kitajima | Oct 17, 2017 | Japanese
HMMM.. Lesson 2 of Japanese with me?! Lesson 1 of Japanese with Christine was OMOTENASHI. How many of you retained that bit? Today, I think I’ll go with the Japanese-y way of saying “Long time no see” or “It’s been awhile.”...
by Christine Kitajima | Sep 11, 2017 | Japanese
There are so many Japanese words that don’t have the same word in English. It’s probably because of the culture, like certain things don’t exist in English like it does in Japan. Many times, I am asked, “How do you say this in English?” by a Japanese person, and I’m...
