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How Scales Are Used in Music
Scales, one of the fundamental building blocks of music, are more than just warm-ups learned by rote memorization. They are established series of pitches arranged in a specific pattern, and they have...
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The Importance of Ear Training in Music Learning
Listening is the most common way music is enjoyed. You won’t get far without appreciating what you’re hearing. But did you know that it is also a key way to improve your music learning? Ear training...
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The Role of Scales in Music
Nearly every student of Western music has spent time memorizing their scales, and it’s easy to see why. Scales provide a firm foundation to build music on, be it by establishing a key or giving the...
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A Guide to Adjectives in Japanese
In any language, there are various parts of speech that perform different but important functions. Parts of speech include: nouns, verbs, adjectives, etc. In this article we’ll zoom in on adjectives:...
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A Japanese Language Learning Glossary
Linguistics, or the study of language, is an academic field of considerable depth. It includes terminology we may not use in our everyday lives, but which are still important for understanding...
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What’s On the New Reading & Writing Section of the Digital SAT?
While the SAT has had a constant presence in the college admissions process for over 60 years now, it has by no means been consistent in its presentation. The way it tests students’ reading and...
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Does Wyzant Have Japanese Tutors?
If you’re looking for an answer to the question posed here, the short answer is: yes! In fact, not only does Wyzant have hundreds of Japanese tutors available, but it has more than 65,000 tutors...
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How to Type Katakana
Katakana is the second of three “alphabets” in Japanese. In modern Japanese, katakana is mostly used to indicate when a word is derived from a foreign language. (Such words are called “loanwords” or...
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Why Do Kanji Have Multiple Readings?
Among people learning Japanese, kanji are infamous for their difficulty. They work entirely differently from the two other writing systems (hiragana and katakana). Not only that, but even if you can...
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At any level of education, testing is inevitable and scores determine a lot about a student’s next steps. Preparing for a test involves increasing confidence in the subject matter and strengthening...
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