Liv wrote a piece about why sometimes it’s easier to pretend that you don’t understand Japanese in Someone’s Knocking at the Door.

Nick tell’s us about the struggles of having a foreign name in Japan in What’s my name?

Jaimapanese talks about his strategy to learn Japanese with a combination of Anime, Manga and video games and claims that “Learning Japanese is complicated but not difficult“.

My contribution was a few handy kanji for travelers.

More serious students of the language will enjoy some of the other submissions to “The Language of Japan” Japan Blog Matsuri, but I must admit that some are a bit over my head – I’m barely a beginner!

For people like me, whose foreign language skills aren’t even close to fluent,  10 places to find someone who speaks English is a good resource written by Mary Jo at Fly Away Cafe.  There are actually more than ten as additional suggestions can be found in the comments on the article.

That’s it for this weeks Nihon on the Net.  If you have a craving for news in between editions be sure to check out JapanSoc, Japan’s #1 Social Bookmarking Site.  It keeps me up to date with what others are reading and talking about in the world of Japan news and opinion and I would encourage you to participate if you want to read more than what I can present here once a week.

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