July 2019
Dogen the Japanese language expert
I spoke with Dogen last year (September 2018). We spoke about a couple of cultural topics in Japanese and in English. We spoke more in Japanese because I am easily influenced by the mastery level of Dogen. Because he was being choppy in speaking Japanese (this is the correct approach to speaking natural Japanese) and […]
Matt. vs Japan
Matt from Matt vs. Japan kindly nitpicked my English last year. I meant to come back to it to learn from his advise and I finally did. His advice was to combine words a bit more with expressions like "it is." I can say "it's" instead. I tried to do that in this video. Thanks […]
How to make your speech "animated"
I saw Tomoaki speaking in English. I got his permission to help him with a piece of advice using the video format. The trick is to replicate "serifu (utterance)" as if it was happening in front of you by changing the tone of it. Even for your own voice, you can change it and for […]