Here's a challenge: Assemble a meaningful phrase that returns fewer than 10 Google results. Now try "harsh reality" (151 billion results). Or "fearless leader" (a comparatively puny 25 billion).

British linguist Harold Palmer wrote in 1933 that “It is not so much the words of English nor the grammar of English that make English difficult… that vague and undefined obstacle to progress … ...

Collocations, or natural word combinations, exist in any language, but until now there have been few resources for learners of Japanese on this important yet difficult subject. "Common Japanese ...