Month: June 2020

Learning Vocabulary – Parts of Speech

In my last post about building vocabulary I talked about learning groups of words. Another good way to build vocabulary is to learn different parts of speech (品詞) based on a key word. For example if we start with the

Abbreviations

In Japanese, English (katakana) words are regularly abbreviated (短縮・省略される), but often in different ways to native English so you need to be careful. One example is “air-con” (エアコン), which in English would be shortened to AC or A/C. We often