While Japan’s bank of English loan words has grown to the point where “context” and even “paradigm” can be understood by most people, there seems to be only a handful of Japanese words that have been ...

Foreign words undergo transformation in various ways when they enter another language. The following are some of the technical terms that linguists use to describe such changes. All languages have ...

Japanese is considered one of the world's most difficult languages. Grammar is complicated, and the meanings of words are multifaceted. There are also three different kinds of written ...