Japanese - Lesson 9

Japanese - Lesson 8

Japanese - Lesson 7

Japanese - Lesson 6

Japanese - Lesson 3

7th Febuary 2008 - Chinese New Year

English
Happy New Year

Japanese
あけまして　　おめでとう　　ございます。
akemashite　omedetou　　gozaimasu.

Chinese
新 年 快 乐
xin nian kuai le

References - Books

References - Books
1. Beginners' Foundation
- Japanese for Busy People I
2. Beginners' Consolidation
- Japanese for Busy People II
3. Beginners' Communication
- Japanese for Busy People III

Others
- Kana for Busy People
- Japanese for Professionals
- Japanese for Young People I
- Japanese for Young People II
- Japanese for Young People III

Japanese - Katakana Characters

46 Katakana Characters

Daku-on Sound

Yo-on Sound

Japanese - Tips on studying (かなマスター)

Japanese - Counters

Japanese - Lesson 5

Japanese - Lesson 4

Japanese - Lesson 2

Japanese - Lesson 1

In this case, we use:
# 'は' ('wa') in ---> わたしは（ｎａｍｅ）です。
# 'こちら, さん and です' in ---> こちらは（ｎａｍｅ）さんです。

When given an example:

A is B = A は B です.

A's B = A の B.

Is A, B? = A は B ですか. (Adding 'か' at the back of sentence means a question.)(Thus '?' is removed)

Japanese - Numerals

Japanese - Classroom Expressions

Japanese - Greeting Words

Japanese - Know more!

"Watashi wa lingo wo tabemasu."

Watashi --> (I)
lingo --> (Apple)
tabemasu --> (Eat)

What is a particle?
“wa” indicates subject
“wo” indicates object

# Hiragana – Ordinary syllabic script
# Katakana – Words loaned from foreign languages and names
# Kanji – Chinese Characters

Pronunciation
* Accent
-- High and low pitches (vs. strong and weak accents)

* Vowels
-- Jap has only 5 vowels: a, i, u, e, o

* Consonants
-- Roughly close to English

Japanese - Basic Self-Intro

Basic Self-Introductions

はじめまして (ha ji me ma shi te) --> How do you do?
わたしわ ____________ です (wa ta shi wa ____ desu) --> My name is ____.
どおぞ よろしく (do o zo yoroshiku) --> Nice to meet you.

Japanese - Hiragana Characters

46 Hiragana Characters Daku-on Sound
Yo-on Sound
Cho-on Sound