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Short, no-fluff articles to make progress on real Japanese: syllabaries, stroke order, kanji, immersion methods.
Learning Japanese with Anki: what to do first
Anki is the most powerful vocabulary tool, as long as you don't start with it. Kana first, then a deck like Kaishi 1.5k, and a few settings that change everything.
Read the article →Why Google Translate won't teach you Japanese
Google Translate and DeepL hand you a fluent English sentence, and that's exactly the problem: they erase the Japanese. Localized titles, flattened register, kanji with no reading. What a learner's translator does instead.
Read the article →Read a Japanese sentence with furigana, even as a beginner
How to decode a real Japanese sentence when you barely know the kana: the role of furigana, and how Darumoji's translator overlays it automatically on any text.
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