Monthly Archives: January 2006

~てform chart

A year 12 Japanese teacher at the VSL I attend wrote down on the whiteboard a chart which visually explains how to convert verbs from the three groups (Regular I, Regular II and Irregular – you better know these or … Continue reading

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Relative Clauses

"Relative Clauses", hearing those two words makes almost every Japanese 2nd language student shake with fear. I, too, had quite a fair bit of difficulty with this topic until I just suddenly understood it (that’s the second time something like … Continue reading

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