About this episode

In this episode, we explore the Japanese language and its cultural context for Asian drama fans with guest Shogo.

Welcome to our latest episode! This is now the third in our series of Asian language introductions for Asian Drama fans. We are delighted to be joined by Shogo, an old University friend of Sarah's and tri-lingual Japanese, English and Mandarin Chinese speaker to the podcast - where he gives us an intro to Japanese and comparisons with Chinese and Korean. All three of us share cultural and linguistic experiences and we also get into some Japanese culture questions sent in by listeners. For previous episodes on Korean and Chinese check out links below: An Intro to Korean for KDramas Intro to Chinese Language for Asian Drama fans

People in this episode

Guest: Shogo

Topics covered

• Japanese language
• Asian drama
• cultural experiences
• language comparison
• Japanese culture

Keywords

• Japanese language
• Asian drama
• language introduction
• cultural experiences
• tri-lingual

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: An Intro to Korean for KDramas, Intro to Chinese Language for Asian Drama fans

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