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Episode 118: 恩 (On): The Japanese Gratitude Higher Than Mountains, Deeper Than the Sea (opens the original)
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You may know the word "sensei." But there is another Japanese word for teacher — one you can only use looking backward, for the teacher who shaped who you became. Inside that word sits 恩 (on): a kind of gratitude English can circle but never quite touch. In this episode, Dr Asuka unpacks this key word of Japanese thinking. She follows it from a beloved graduation song into an eight-hundred-year-old speech that saved Japan's first samurai government, into the sumo ring, and into a quiet press-roo
Episode 117: Adult Japanese Learners Have a Strength No One Talks About — Three Lessons from Ten Years of Teaching (opens the original)
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"I'm too old for this." After nearly ten years of teaching Japanese at a British university — to doctors, engineers, and retired teachers learning in the evenings — Dr Asuka heard this apology again and again. But from the front of the classroom, that is not what she saw. In this episode, she shares the three biggest lessons her adult students taught her: why adults don't learn worse, just differently; what adult learners are really looking for (it isn't a test score); and the real reason so man
Episode 116: "My Mind Goes Blank When I Try to Speak Japanese" — Why Studying More Won't Fix It (opens the original)
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Free seminar for adult Japanese learners: https://shop.funjapaneselearning.com/2609smj-pod/ Why busy adults struggle to speak Japanese — and the 3-step cycle that helps you start using it. Japanese is more than words and grammar. It is a way of seeing and relating to the world. You've studied. You know the grammar. And then a real Japanese person stands in front of you — and every word you know becomes unreachable. In this episode, Dr Asuka looks inside that frozen moment as both a Jap
Episode 115: Why Adult Learners Quit Japanese Classes — and Why It's Not Their Fault (opens the original)
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Free seminar for adult Japanese learners: https://shop.funjapaneselearning.com/2609smj-pod/ Why busy adults struggle to speak Japanese — and the 3-step cycle that helps you start using it. Japanese is more than words and grammar. It is a way of seeing and relating to the world. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Every year, in a university classroom I loved, I watched the same quiet story: a devoted adult learner would miss just one Japanese lesson — because
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