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日本人の会話の中で「ぱつぱつ/ぱっつんぱっつん」って聞いたことありませんか？？ Have you ever heard of ぱつぱつ/ぱっつんぱっつん in conversation wi...

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Don’t look now! It’s the Me-Her girls! The what girls? Say it with me – the Me-Har girls. You’ve got it! ミーハー女子. But what does it mean? The image above is from a プリクラ ...

https://gakuu.com/me-her-fangirls-miiha/

あなたの周りにくどい人いますか？ 例えば会社の上司とか、先輩とか。 同じ事を繰り返して話したり、ネチネチと嫌な事を言い続けたりする、�...

https://gakuu.com/too-much-kudoi/

‘Honorific’ is a linguistic term referring to titles added to a person’s name. In Japanese, the vast majority of these are suffixes. You’ve likely have heard one or two in movies: ‘Dani...

https://gakuu.com/japanese-honorifics/

日本語には、外国語（主に英語）を使って表現する言葉がたくさんあります。 例えば、「ドタキャン」 どこが英語なの？と思ったあなた！ 「ド...

https://gakuu.com/bail-on-somebody-dotakyan/

A little bit racy this post, but if you were able to handle the Condom Word Play frivolities, you’ll enjoy this one. In celebration of its 10th anniversary, Japanese lingerie maker Ravijour is ...

https://gakuu.com/japanese-true-love-tester-bra/

Do you have a フェッチ? If it’s for cute, chubby girls, then this is the lesson for you! In response to the rising popularity of AKB48 and other local idol groups in Japan, a niche collecti...

https://gakuu.com/the-chubbiness-idol-group/

もう改札で止まらない！ So goes the catchy line in this advert featuring the pudgy, bulging yurukyara character that is Tokyu’s ‘Noru-run’. The picture speaks a thousand words, bu...

https://gakuu.com/no-more-hold-ups/

自分の性格を一言で言うと何ですか？ 明るい？心配性？積極的？ ↓こんな言葉聞いたことありませんか？？ 「私の性格はズボラです。」 ズボ�...

https://gakuu.com/slovenly-zubora/

One of the buzzwords of 2013 in Japan was the rather bizarre word 激おこぷんぷん丸. Originating from Japanese schoolgrils, the word made its way onto the internet and spawned an intriging...

https://gakuu.com/fuming-mad-gekiokopunpunmaru/