Some of you may know I started on the Dumb Otaku blog. I originally started the blog as a way to write about anime, manga, and general Otaku culture. However, along the way my interest in Japan and the language grew, and as a result so did the number of posts over language and Japan. There in lies the problem.
As the language posts increased the otakuness posts decreased thus defeating the point of the blog. Another interesting thing happened along the way; there were several things I didn’t want to post language wise as it was too languagy. As a solution I have decided to pull the language and Japan posts to this blog here.
JapanGaku essentially means Japan Learning or Japanese studies. Which means on this blog almost anything goes when it comes to language and culture. However, we are going to mostly discuss language for now as I do more and more research into history and culture of Japan.
For the most part history and culture wise I am going to try to gear it towards language. However, just learning history will help you understand things which are said. If you think about it in English when you refer to something in history the words are the same as normal language, but unless you understand the history it may as well be French or Italian.
So in essence this is language and culture blog and we are going to have a lot of fun discussing both.
p.s. On another note I know this site is ugly right now, but it is going to change for the better as time goes on. In the mean time please subscribe to the rss feed.
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good luck with the new blog!
Thank you, I am really excited about it. It is a lot of fun so far.
I’m glad the transition went well, good luck!
Thank you for stopping by. It was interesting move and thanks for the help.