Autumn is upon us: the temperatures are dropping and the nights are drawing in. What could be better than sitting around a fire eating delicious food… One of my friends once joked that the service in Japanese restaurants is so … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: November 2015
Not just a frog
“kaeru” is Japanese for frog… When you spell it out in the Japanese alphabet, hiragana, it’s ka-e-ru. There are about 50 hiragana “letters”, which function like syllables and they’re always pronounced the same no matter how they’re combined. Compare that … Continue reading