One of the best ways to improve your Japanese is to do web searches in Japanese and skim through the results. It is a habit that can help you immerse yourself more fully into Japanese and at the same time [hopefully] not hate doing so 🙂
But how do we do it? Let’s see!
Essential search vocabulary:
とは (what is…[thing/or concept])
って ([person/place/etc]…. is? )
仕組み (how… [to do something])
And as explored in this previous post about how to use Yahoo.JP’s 知恵袋:
[ something ] と [something] の違いは (what’s the difference between x and y)
Unfortunately, there is little information available in English about doing web searches in Japanese.
(In fact, this is the only article I found the first time looking https://www.nippon.com/en/features/c03815/japan-surfing-the-web-the-top-internet-keywords-of-2018.html )
The Full Yasuke! textbook is hoping to improve the situation. So subscribe and stay tuned as we pump out more.
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