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How to Japanese Podcast

May 30, 2021

Paul Snowden worked for over 40 years in universities in Japan. He is also one of the three editors-in-chief of the Fifth Edition of Kenkyusha’s New Japanese-English Dictionary, affectionately known as the Green Goddess. We talked about his experience learning Japanese, working with international students in Japan,...


May 23, 2021

You don't have to go very far to be a tourist, and looking at the world with that mindset can also be helpful for language study. In this week's episode, I reminisce about when my parents visited Tokyo and talk about ノーダメージクリア (nōdamēji kuria, completing games without taking any damage).

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May 16, 2021

Jenn O'Donnell is a Japanese to English translator and project manager based in Osaka. By day she works as a Localization Director for a video game company and by night she blogs about translation on J-ENTranslations and studying Japanese on Japanese Talk Online. She also hosts the podcast Recommendations from My...


May 9, 2021

一番搾り (Ichiban Shibori) helped me cement my understanding of a translator's role and what "fluency" means. And I was able to get this podcast up and running again thanks to a little 自己分析 (jikobunseki, self analysis).

Feel free to reach out with any questions or 悩み事 to howtojapanese@gmail.com.

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May 2, 2021

Mel Ok is a translator and project manager based in Tottori Prefecture. He's currently the head of Ace Honyaku and has been in the translation industry for over 10 years. Previously he served as a CIR on the JET Program, taught English, and worked in QA. We talked about studying the language, working as a...