The mimetics that don't show up in textbooks — regional, literary, and advertising Japanese.

Once you leave the beginner mimetics behind, the words that carry the most feeling are exactly the ones dictionaries explain worst.

By the end

You will be able to read dialectal and literary sound words in context, tell near-synonyms apart by feel, and build new mimetics from productive patterns.

Who this is for

Learners at roughly JLPT N3 who already know everyday giongo and gitaigo and want the registers textbooks skip.