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Nihongoism

Bob Myers

Encounters with the Japanese Language

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The Japanese word kangaeru carries an expectation of effortful, transformative cognition—that you haven’t truly 考えた until your understanding has shifted. In Part 1, we traced 考える (kangaeru) from its earliest attested form kamugapu in the Ni...

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The Japanese Art of Thinking

The word 考える (kangaeru) appears early in the study of every aspiring Japanese speaker. You probably learned it alongside 思う (omou), its near-twin, and you probably learned that both of them mean “to think.” What you may not have been told i...

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The kun (native) reading of 機 is hata. I never knew that, even though it’s actually a Joyo reading. Hata means loom. And from that simple native Japanese word extends a remarkable web of meanings extending from machines, to opportunities, t...

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The Farmer Planning His Day with the Hoe at His Side

If you’ve been studying Japanese for a while, you may have come across the word くわだてる (kuwadateru), meaning to plan, to scheme, to undertake. It’s not a word most learners encounter early. It’s classified as JLPT N1—the highest level—and it...

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The pata-pata of little feet

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