r/NihongoNana

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Who wants to learn more casual Japansese?? 🇯🇵☺️

Who wants to learn more casual Japansese?? 🇯🇵☺️ Join @nihongo.nana to make more friends with Japanese people 🙌

We are welcoming students who want to learn Japanese with more fun and get good results!!! Join us if you are interested 😄

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#nihongo #japaneselesson #learnjapanese #日本語 #nihongonana

u/NihongoNana — 18 hours ago
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This Japanese festival chant basically says: stop watching and join in

One of the most famous lines heard during Awa Odori is:

踊る阿呆に見る阿呆

同じ阿呆なら踊らにゃ損々

Odoru ahou ni miru ahou.

Onaji ahou nara odoranya son son.

A natural translation would be:

“The dancers are fools, and the watchers are fools. If we’re all fools anyway, you’re missing out if you don’t dance.”

阿呆 means “fool,” but here it is playful, not insulting.

踊らにゃ is a casual way of saying “if you don’t dance.”

損 means a loss or waste, so 踊らにゃ損 feels like “not dancing would be a waste.”

Awa Odori is held in Tokushima every August and has more than 400 years of history. I love how this chant captures the spirit of the festival: stop worrying about how you look and join in.

Would you dance or stay in the crowd?

u/NihongoNana — 1 day ago
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What do you think of her Japanese? 🇯🇵

What do you think of her Japanese? 🇯🇵

How are your Japanese speaking and listening skills?

Here is one of our students having a conversation with Luna Sensei, one of Nihongo Nana’s teachers.

Interested in learning Japanese? Book a free trial lesson with one of our teachers today!

When you become a student, you will get free access to Dozo, our Japanese learning app.

u/NihongoNana — 1 day ago
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What do you think of his Japanese?

Leveled up from 1% to 70% 🇯🇵🔥

Making jokes in Japanese?

That's how you make friends with Japanese people!!

Wanna speak like him?? Join my lessons and have fun learning and speaking 😊

本当に毎回たくさん笑って冗談も言って楽しいレッスンです笑

日本語で冗談を言いながら話せるって本当にレベルが高いと思います😂サリムさんいつも笑わせてくれてありがとう🙌😆

I absolutely love our lessons together with full conversation in Japanese!!

#japanese #learnjapanese #日本語 #nihongo #nihongonana

u/NihongoNana — 2 days ago

Don't mix up 知(し)りません and 分(わ)かりません😨🇯🇵

Don't mix up 知(し)りません and 分(わ)かりません😨🇯🇵

Nuance plays a BIG role in Japanese!

Wanna learn more Japanese?

Join NihongoNana and be a part of NanaFam 🥰

#learnjapanese #japanese #japanese #日本語 #nihongonana

u/NihongoNana — 4 days ago

Free Pocket Tissues in Japan

Japan has been putting ads on free pocket tissues for decades.

But as this video shows, plenty of people still walk right past them.

Cheap, useful, and physical. But does it actually have good ROI in 2026?

And would anyone take these outside Japan?

u/NihongoNana — 6 days ago
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Only in Japan

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A pigeon somehow boarded the Shinkansen and caused enough chaos that the train had to make an emergency stop. 🕊️🚄

Bro skipped the ticket gate, got a free ride, then delayed the Shinkansen.

JR's toughest passenger of 2026.

u/NihongoNana — 10 days ago