Tips and advice shared by tutors for learning Japanese

Modern language learning techniques used in private language lessons and in schools have created a divide between conversation classes and grammar classes. Assuming that traditional grammar classes lack the tools to teach conversation, language methods these days have often catapulted to the opposite extreme: conversational skills without conscious teaching of grammar.  Can you learn a language exclusively through regular conversation...

As with all languages, some sounds are easier to pronounce than others. One of the advantages of learning Spanish is that it is considered one of the easiest languages for foreigners to pronounce. However, there are some sounds that tend to be more difficult to pronounce, such as the double r, the letter g, and the letter j, the letter h (which is soundless) and the letters c and z.  In the globalised world we live in, learning Japane...