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Posted in The Forum and Blog on September 1, 2008 by dragonfoxWe got a Arcade!
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Posted in New Episodes on September 5, 2008 by dragonfoxLeaning Japanese
Posted in Leaning Japanese on September 3, 2008 by dragonfoxLesson #1
Overview
*Introduction
*The Writing System
*A-Ko Writing
*Rules Of Hiragana
*Basics Of Sentence Structure
*Introducing Yourself
*Vocabulary
*Kanji Of The Day
*Homework
Introduction
What I will be concentrating on is specifically writing and kanji. I’m also teaching the basics of sentence structure and introduction and include lessons on vocabulary in colors, dates/time (days of the week too!), Customs, a mini history lesson of Japan, Plain/past/formal forms of verbs, nouns and adjectives, and eventually learning Christmas songs in Japanese. There will also be an emphasis on pronunciation! Around Christmas time, I’m thinking about teaching everybody how to sing Christmas carols in Japanese and hold a little contest.
I’m going to try hard to include audio examples for hard to pronounce words.* However, I will be assigning necessary homework so that people can LEARN how to write and be able to RECALL it months and years from now. I can’t force you to do the homework but I strongly URGE you all to do it so that you’ll recall it later, since you’ll need it later for Christmas for reading Christmas carols.
It is up to you on how much you will learn and obtain from these lessons, either your completely new at Japanese or know a few things. After all, practice makes perfect!
I will try to provide the most accurate information that I know of, if I make a mistake please let me know….we all make them!
The Writing System
There are three writing “alphabets” you could say, two of them Hiragana and Katakana contain 46 characters each. And Kanji, well, its different.
Japanese write photonically meaning they write down what it sounds like. For example:
A – as in apple
I – as in ski
U – as in bugle
E – as in bed
O – well, its O…..oh.
Hiragana is the “alphabet” for words that are traditional to Japan, like Kimono and Tsunami. A long time ago, this used to be the writing system that only females used waaaaay back in old feudal Japan. The men just used Kanji.
Katakana was created later for foreign words to Japan like hot dogs and computers.
The last one is called Kanji which the Japanese borrowed and gave them Japanese meanings to them. There are hundreds and thousands of Kanji. I was over whelmed when I thought about learning thousands of Kanji, but those of us who are learning it as a second language needs to learn atleast a few hundred to get by. I mean, more than two hundred. But don’t worry, we’re just starting out and first off! We’ll be learning Hiragana first.
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