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So we were curious:

What are some differences between Americans and the Japanese?

Aaron & I did some “research” (ie: we surfed the internet during our lunch break) and put together this fun comic. A special thanks to our friend The Oatmeal for inspiration.

Enjoy…and feel free to share!












Ready for some *Radfunktacular* news?

Speekit now has Free Japanese Lessons Everyday!

Hooray! So, here’s what this is all about…We’ve been secretly working on our latest project to bring you more awesome Japanese stuff. And it’s our pleasure to finally introduce you to the UPDATED Speekit.com!

The Details:

Everyday we’ll be posting a different Speekit lesson on our homepage for all to enjoy. It’s fun, education, and best of all Free!

We’ve also made it easy to share the love with your friends and fellow Japanese enthusiasts!

  • Have a social networking account? We’ve made it easy for you to post about our daily lessons to your friends and contacts.
  • Have a blog? Embed the lessons on your site for your viewers to enjoy :)
  • Don’t have either? We’ve even made it easy to email your friends about the Free Lesson of the Day!

We’ve also made the Premium Member experience more streamlined, thanks to the input from our awesome community!

Come see and experience the New & Improved Speekit.com for yourself.

Hope to see you there!

Your friends,
Aaron & Kevin

What do you do?

Since moving to Japan, it seems like the first thing people ask me after being introduced is 「どんな仕事をしているんですか?」 … or some variation thereof.  (Romaji: donna shigoto wo shite irun desu ka? What do you do for a living?)
I don’t know if it’s because I’m a foreigner or not, but it never fails. If you spend [...]

The Ichabodcraniosaurus, and how it affects your Japanese.

Let me tell you a quick story about a very close friend of mine. She’d kill me if she found out I was writing about her, so I’m going to call her ‘Sarah’ to save her any unintended embarrassment
So Sarah is one of those straight-A model student types and is a super-disciplined, hard-worker.
She [...]

Update: Improved Quizzes!

Kevin and I heard you loud and clear. We got a number of messages saying that our quiz feature was frustrating because of the amount of clicking you had to do to find the correct answer.
Well, we fixed it! Watch the new demo video to see how it works (about 1/2 way through).
New Demo Video:

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