Last in a two-part series

While writing 手紙 (tegami, letters) in Japanese may be intimidating, メール (尘ē谤耻, emails) give nonnative speakers very few excuses for not keeping up our correspondence with Japanese friends.

Not only do you not have to go to the 郵便局 (测ū产颈苍办测辞办耻, post office) and not spend money on 封筒 (蹿ū迟ō, envelopes) and 切手 (kitte, stamps), you also don’t have to remember how to write the kanji: Just let the パソコン (pasokon, computer) or 携帯 (keitai, mobile phone) take care of it for you.