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Look up Princeton Community Japanese Language School on Yelp, Sawyer or the Princeton visitor directory and you will be sent to 14 Moore Street in Princeton. No child has a lesson there. It is the school's office. Classes happen on Sunda...

Ken Kaneki starts Tokyo Ghoul as a quiet university student who loves novels, and his Japanese sounds like it: soft, polite, full of 僕 and trailing dots. By the end he sounds like somebody else. That change is a gift for learners, becau...

Jiraiya is the teacher every Naruto fan wishes they had: loud, silly, a little embarrassing, and suddenly wiser than anyone else in the room. His lines are also a gift for learners, because he talks like an old man in Japanese — ワ...

Saitama is the strongest hero in anime, and he talks like a man checking the price of cabbages. That flat, bored voice is exactly what makes his lines so good for learners: short sentences, everyday verbs, and the relaxed contractions re...

Slam Dunk finished in the manga magazine in 1996, and Japanese people have been quoting it ever since — at school sports days, in office meetings, on the side of the court. The 2022 film The First Slam Dunk brought a whole new gene...

Lelouch vi Britannia talks like a chess player who has already seen the last move: every line is short, theatrical and built on a clear grammatical frame. That makes him one of the best characters in anime to learn from — as long a...

If you homeschool and your child wants to learn Japanese — or you are a Japanese-speaking parent trying to keep your child's Japanese going at home — the search for a Japanese homeschool curriculum gets confusing fast. Most of what turns...