How Much Time Did Aimee Give You to Learn the Basics?

If you want to really understand Japan, you've got to learn to read the script. It tells you a huge amount about the country and about the culture because of these ideograms. The way you distinguish one word from another is really from the kanji. So I decided that actually I need that as an adult. And so I came up with something called the major system, which was a medieval method of remembering numbers. Each Kanji kind of has a story to it. But this method put another layer on, which was really interesting. Hone tatimai means 'to show the world what you want to show'

Transcript

Play full episode

Transcript

Episode notes

The AI-powered Podcast Player

Save insights by tapping your headphones, chat with episodes, discover the best highlights - and more!

Get the app