Learning with content within your difficulty level can save you time, and allow you to actually learn rather than be frustrated with content that is too difficult. The measuring of difficulty is called readability, and the readability of Japanese texts can be determined by three methods: sentence features, kanji grade, and vocabulary lists. Let’s look into these methods and how to use them, from academic to practical.

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Social media like Twitter and Facebook seem to have taken the place of email to communicate with an audience. However, social media cannot be relied on to display information or notifications to our audience. Email is great for this purpose, and is just another way to assure that your message is being heard. It may seem simple to setup a newsletter list. All that is needed is a website form, and a database to store emails. But how do you send an email to everybody at once?

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Freelance marketplaces are websites which step in to help manage business logistics for freelancers who work through their marketplace. These websites are different to job listing websites. Although freelance marketplaces allow the listing of work like job listing sites, freelance marketplaces are like having an assistant who manages your business for you. These marketplaces help you to market yourself, advertise to potential clients that you are available, prove that you can fulfill work, set prices and get paid. Like hiring an assistant, these websites take a fee for managing your business.