﻿<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><!--RSS Genrated: Tue, 28 Apr 2026 17:58:25 GMT--><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:ev="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/event/"><channel><title>Japanese, Korean, Cantonese, Chinese, Thai, Arabic or Vietnamese Classes NYC or Online - Japanese Language</title><link>https://www.hillslearning.com:443/articles/rss/category/506/japanese-language-3</link><atom:link href="https://www.hillslearning.com:443/articles/rss/category/506/japanese-language-3" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><description>RSS document</description><item><dc:creator><![CDATA[Rin Fukuoka]]></dc:creator><title><![CDATA[Learn Japanese Homonyms]]></title><link>https://www.hillslearning.com/articles/learn-japanese-homonyms</link><description><![CDATA[    Have you ever confused the bird crane with the lifting machine at construction sites? The word 
“crane” is a homonym; it is spelled the same but can mean different things. In Japanese, ...]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 16 May 2022 20:30:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>https://www.hillslearning.com/articles/learn-japanese-homonyms</guid><dc:identifier><![CDATA[9dc5da41-20f1-4c6d-8399-c58ce5d0789c-3329]]></dc:identifier></item><item><dc:creator><![CDATA[Hills Learning]]></dc:creator><title><![CDATA[Learn Japanese Through Song]]></title><link>https://www.hillslearning.com/articles/learn-japanese-through-song</link><description><![CDATA[   Learning a song in another language is a wonderful thing. You can practice listening comprehension, in addition to learning about the culture from which the song came! In Japan, the best way to ...]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 26 Jan 2022 14:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>https://www.hillslearning.com/articles/learn-japanese-through-song</guid><dc:identifier><![CDATA[9dc5da41-20f1-4c6d-8399-c58ce5d0789c-3524]]></dc:identifier></item><item><dc:creator><![CDATA[Rin Fukuoka]]></dc:creator><title><![CDATA[Learning Hiragana: The Foundation for any Japanese language learner]]></title><link>https://www.hillslearning.com/articles/learning-hiragana-the-foundation-for-any-japanese-language-learner</link><description><![CDATA[   There’s good news and bad news with learning Japanese. The bad news is there’s three alphabets, two with about 50 characters, and a third, Kanji, with 2-3,000. The good news is the first alphabet ...]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 25 Oct 2021 20:33:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>https://www.hillslearning.com/articles/learning-hiragana-the-foundation-for-any-japanese-language-learner</guid><dc:identifier><![CDATA[9dc5da41-20f1-4c6d-8399-c58ce5d0789c-3330]]></dc:identifier></item><item><dc:creator><![CDATA[Hills Learning]]></dc:creator><title><![CDATA[Top 10 Kotowaza - How to Use Proverbs in Japanese]]></title><link>https://www.hillslearning.com/articles/top-10-kotowaza-how-to-use-proverbs-in-japanese</link><description><![CDATA[   Have you ever tried using  kotowaza  when talking with Japanese speakers?  Kotowaza  are Japanese proverbs. There are three different types of  kotowaza :   

 
     言い習わし ( iinarawashi, a ...]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 02 Apr 2021 13:51:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>https://www.hillslearning.com/articles/top-10-kotowaza-how-to-use-proverbs-in-japanese</guid><dc:identifier><![CDATA[9dc5da41-20f1-4c6d-8399-c58ce5d0789c-3523]]></dc:identifier></item><item><dc:creator><![CDATA[Hills Learning]]></dc:creator><title><![CDATA[Kansai Dialect Dictionary]]></title><link>https://www.hillslearning.com/articles/kansai-dialect-dictionary</link><description><![CDATA[   When I was in Japan during the summer of 2010 and 2012, I got to travel to multiple cities all over the country. As much as I liked the famous city of Tokyo, what really captured my heart was the ...]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2020 21:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>https://www.hillslearning.com/articles/kansai-dialect-dictionary</guid><dc:identifier><![CDATA[9dc5da41-20f1-4c6d-8399-c58ce5d0789c-3522]]></dc:identifier></item><item><dc:creator><![CDATA[Hills Learning]]></dc:creator><title><![CDATA[Learning Japanese Particles - "に"]]></title><link>https://www.hillslearning.com/articles/learning-japanese-particles-ni</link><description><![CDATA[    Welcome back! This is the third article in my series on Japanese language particles. The goal of these articles is to look at Japanese particles from a birds-eye perspective; that is, to look at ...]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2020 19:25:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>https://www.hillslearning.com/articles/learning-japanese-particles-ni</guid><dc:identifier><![CDATA[9dc5da41-20f1-4c6d-8399-c58ce5d0789c-3496]]></dc:identifier></item><item><dc:creator><![CDATA[Hills Learning]]></dc:creator><title><![CDATA[Honorific Speech in Japanese - Kenjougo (謙譲語)]]></title><link>https://www.hillslearning.com/articles/honorific-speech-in-japanese-kenjougo</link><description><![CDATA[   Welcome to this page! This article is devoted to Japanese humble language, kenjougo 謙譲語. In English, there isn't a way to humbly express an action unless you say 'I humbly...'. You use this speech ...]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 24 Sep 2019 13:51:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>https://www.hillslearning.com/articles/honorific-speech-in-japanese-kenjougo</guid><dc:identifier><![CDATA[9dc5da41-20f1-4c6d-8399-c58ce5d0789c-3525]]></dc:identifier></item><item><dc:creator><![CDATA[Alex Pommier]]></dc:creator><title><![CDATA[Introduction to Learning Japanese Kanji]]></title><link>https://www.hillslearning.com/articles/introduction-to-learning-japanese-kanji</link><description><![CDATA[   Learning Kanji can be a daunting task. There are about 1,000 – 2,000 Kanji that are necessary to learn in order to be able to read newspapers, street signs, and menus in Japanese. With all these ...]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 17 Dec 2017 23:41:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>https://www.hillslearning.com/articles/introduction-to-learning-japanese-kanji</guid><dc:identifier><![CDATA[9dc5da41-20f1-4c6d-8399-c58ce5d0789c-3460]]></dc:identifier></item><item><dc:creator><![CDATA[Hills Learning]]></dc:creator><title><![CDATA[打ち言葉]]></title><link>https://www.hillslearning.com/articles/uchi-kotoba</link><description><![CDATA[      WIT Life  is a periodic series written by professional Writer/Interpreter/Translator      Stacy Smith  ( Kumamo  to-ken  CIR, 2000-03). She starts her day by watching Fujisankei’s newscast in ...]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2016 15:58:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>https://www.hillslearning.com/articles/uchi-kotoba</guid><dc:identifier><![CDATA[9dc5da41-20f1-4c6d-8399-c58ce5d0789c-3542]]></dc:identifier></item><item><dc:creator><![CDATA[Hills Learning]]></dc:creator><title><![CDATA[明けましておめでとうございます！]]></title><link>https://www.hillslearning.com/articles/akemashite-omdeto-gozaimasu</link><description><![CDATA[      WIT Life      is a periodic series written by professional Writer/Interpreter/Translator      Stacy Smith  ( Kumamo  to-ken  CIR, 2000-03). She starts her day by watching Fujisankei’s newscast ...]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 16 Jan 2016 13:02:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>https://www.hillslearning.com/articles/akemashite-omdeto-gozaimasu</guid><dc:identifier><![CDATA[9dc5da41-20f1-4c6d-8399-c58ce5d0789c-3557]]></dc:identifier></item></channel></rss>