A new lesson every day

1 Five Shapes That Make Every Other Kana 25 Oct 2 か き く け こ: Five Shapes, One Consonant 26 Oct 4 つ and し: Stop Guessing and Start Seeing the Difference 27 Oct 5 The N Row: Curves and Loops That Trip You Up 28 Oct 6 The H Row, and Why ふ Refuses to Behave 29 Oct 7 まみむめも: the m-row, and a timed check of everything so far 30 Oct 8 The Last Two Rows: や ゆ よ and ら り る れ ろ 31 Oct 9 わ, を, ん: The Last Three Hiragana 1 Nov 10 Two Little Marks That Change the Sound 2 Nov 12 The Last Katakana Rows and Your First Real Loanwords 3 Nov

2 Why 400 to 6000 Ruins an Edge 14 Oct 3 Where the Marker Disappears: Reading Your Angle 15 Oct 4 Wait for the Burr Before You Move On 16 Oct 6 Leather, Denim, and 90 Seconds to a Sharper Edge 17 Oct 8 The Line on the Blade: Reading Cladding and San-mai 18 Oct 9 Three Grinds, One Onion: Flat, Convex, and Wide Bevel 19 Oct 11 Fixing a Chipped Knife on a 220 Stone 20 Oct 12 Wa or Yo: Choosing and Refitting a Japanese Knife Handle 21 Oct 13 Rust, Patina, and Bringing a Carbon Blade Back to Life 22 Oct 14 Where to Put the Knife When You're Not Using It 23 Oct 16 A Five-Year Plan for Your Knife 24 Oct

1 Five Shapes, Five Sounds: Read あ い う え お on Sight 30 Sep 2 Five New Shapes, Sixty Seconds, One K Row 1 Oct 3 Five Kana Hiding in Plain Sight on Shop Signs 2 Oct 4 Five Keys, One Row: た ち つ て と Against the Clock 3 Oct 5 Five Kana and One Tiny Word That Does Real Work 4 Oct 6 The H Row and a Relay That Mixes Every Kana So Far 5 Oct 7 Five New Kana and Your First Real Speed Score 6 Oct 8 Two Strokes Apart: Telling る from ろ and や from ゆ 7 Oct 9 わ を ん: The Last Three Kana, and the Particles Hiding in Plain Sight 8 Oct 10 Two Dots, One Circle: Reading が ざ だ ば ぱ in a Balloon Game 9 Oct 11 Katakana on a Café Menu: ア イ ウ エ オ カ キ ク ケ コ 10 Oct 12 Katakana Speed Round: サ タ ナ ハ マ ヤ ラ ワ 11 Oct 13 Reading the Sign Before the Train Leaves 12 Oct 14 You can already read more than you think 13 Oct

1 Type あいうえお: Your First Five Kana and Ten Real Words 16 Sep 2 Why し is typed 'shi' and not 'si' 17 Sep 3 Typing なに and みかん: the n row and when ん needs two keys 18 Sep 4 The H row and the two little marks that double your kana 19 Sep 5 Typing みる, やま, and the small ゃ that trips everyone 20 Sep 6 The R-row: why らりるれろ is really a D-row 21 Sep 7 The Last Three Kana: わ, を, and ん 22 Sep 8 The small っ is just a doubled consonant 23 Sep 9 Why おおきい has two お and とうきょう has a う 24 Sep 10 One Key, Five Directions: Typing Japanese With Your Thumb 25 Sep 11 60 N5 words, no chart, just your fingers 26 Sep 12 Stop Typing Particles One at a Time 27 Sep 13 Type コーヒー, パン and Your Own Name Without Switching Keyboards 28 Sep 14 60 Seconds, Real Messages: Type Japanese at Chat Speed 29 Sep

1 Answering the Phone in Japanese Without Panic 2 Sep 2 Polite Requests: お願いします vs ～ていただけませんか 3 Sep 3 Excuse Me, May I Come In? Real-Life Permission Phrases 4 Sep 4 The Art of the Sincere Apology: 申し訳ございません 5 Sep 5 Arigatou Isn't Enough: Thanking Like a Pro in Japanese 6 Sep 6 The Art of the Japanese Invitation: Saying Yes and No with Grace 7 Sep 7 Giving and Receiving in Keigo: 差し上げる vs いただく vs くださる 8 Sep 8 Office Keigo: When to Use いただく Over もらう 9 Sep 9 The Three Phrases a Shop Clerk Will Say to You 10 Sep 10 Telling a Doctor What Hurts, Without Sounding Rude 11 Sep 11 Keigo at School: Talking to Teachers Without Freezing Up 12 Sep 12 Writing Emails That Sound Like You, Only Politer 13 Sep 13 The Art of the Polite Correction in Japanese 14 Sep 14 The Three-Part Phone Call You Can Actually Survive 15 Sep

1 日: The Sun That Became a Square 20 Aug 2 The Moon: 月 — A Crescent That Counts Months 20 Aug 3 The Tree That Grows a Forest 20 Aug 4 The Walking Person: How 人 Became a Radical 20 Aug 5 口: The Box That Speaks 20 Aug 6 The Eye That Sees: 目 and Its Tilted Cousin 罒 20 Aug 7 The Hand That Holds and Hits: 手 and 扌 20 Aug 8 The Heart: 心 and Its Hidden Forms 20 Aug 9 Water's Flow: 水 and the 氵 Radical 21 Aug 10 火: The Fire That Lights the Way 22 Aug 11 The Earth: 土 — Grounding Your Kanji 23 Aug 12 Three Peaks, One Story: The Kanji 山 24 Aug 13 Why Does It Rain? The Picture Behind 雨 25 Aug 14 The Door: 門 and the Senses Behind It 26 Aug 15 The Child: 子 – A Swaddled Baby in Every Kanji 27 Aug 16 The Woman in 女: A Kneeling Figure, Hidden in 好 and 始 28 Aug 17 The Man in the Field: 男 28 Aug 18 The Horse: From Picture to Station 29 Aug 19 The Bird That Sings: 鳥 30 Aug 20 The Fish: 魚 — See Scales and Tail in Every Stroke 31 Aug 21 The Sun Behind the Tree: Seeing East 1 Sep