Archive for the ‘Languages’ Category

How to Win a Japanese Friend?

Are you trying to learn Japanese for your planned tour? Or simply to make sense of real anime voices? Or just to survive a night with a Japanese acquaintance? If so, these phrases will surely be of help: Yoroshiku onegai shimasu. (silent ‘u’) Literally, it’s translated “Please look favorably upon me.”  It simply means “It’s

Live Mocha for Kicking Neurons

Can’t sleep? ‘Bored playing bookworm, boggle, hangman, even google translate? I urge you to try Live Mocha. One of the tips I shared on Get Savvier, Save Your Brain Now was to try learning a Foreign language. I made an account at Live Mocha since I’d read about it through TIME’s top educational websites in

Revenge of the Nerds: How to Strike Back the Smart Way

Revenge of the Nerds: How to Strike Back the Smart Way

Do you get a feeling of pleasure when bad things happen to someone, especially someone who has done terrible things to you? If you used to be a lingo geek = nerd = outcast in high school, you must know that the term for this emotion is “schadenfreude” /shahd-n-froi-duh/ from German words schaden meaning harm

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