Anime – サザエさん第1話

Practice your listening with the サザエさん (sazae-san) anime. This is one of the most popular and eldest Japanese anime series featuring daily life in Japan. The Japanese also is very nice. 頑張って!

My name in Japanese – Mary

Your name in Japanese phonetic alphabet:

Foreign words – such as foreign names – are written in katakana, which is a phonetic Japanese alphabet. These characters only describe the reading and sound but have no meaning by themselves. If you want to create a business card in Japanese you should be using these characters.

Katakana マリ
Reading  MA RI

Click on the link for each character and learn how to write it from the video.


Your name in Japanese kanji characters:

Japanese names usually are written in kanji characters which have a meaning. Many kanji have the same pronunciation but different meanings, so that there are many possible combinations for a specific name. Parents therefore spend a lot of time choosing the characters for the names of their children.

We looked at possible combinations with nice meaning to write your name in Japanese. There probably are more possibilities and we will add them if we come across one of them.


真利

Kanji Meaning Reading
truth MA
benefit RI

真理

Kanji Meaning Reading
truth MA
reason, logic RI

真里

Kanji Meaning Reading
truth MA
home, village RI

万理

Kanji Meaning Reading
ten thousand MA
reason, logic RI

Anime – 花咲か爺さん

This is a nice Anime is called “hanasaka jiisan” (grandfather and the blooming flowers) for kids with easy language for practicing your listening skills. It is part of a series with old Japanese tales. It is 10 minutes long.

How to speak fluent Japanese without speaking a word

If you are a little familiar with Japanese you will enjoy this video very much. A funny Japanese lesson on some typical mimics of Japanese people.  Let me know if you like this.

Japanese food and kanji art

Art: Japanese kanji and food

I found this very nice blog article on an artist who combines kanji and food and makes them easier to memorize.