and Japanese is even more fun! Download the PDF, learn Kana and Impress your friends! Every word in Kanji can be written and read in either of the two simplified alphabets of Kana: Hiragana and Katakana.
This is my grammar and lessons environment. I'm working on a small KANJI dictionary. A handy list of the chinese Kanji words will be available in time. Here I put my own notes. [private]
Throughout time I gathered a long list of my favorite words. It is infact a poem. I am putting them into Kanji. The list is about 200 words.For now I've put some words in workmap file. Just for fun. [private]
In japan children first learn to speak Hiragana and Katakana; two phonetic alphabets.Download these two and once you´ve learned them, you can already read a little Japanese!That´s very handy when you are staying in Japan for a longer time.
And a great way to learn about culture tóó!
There's a wide range of textbooks available to learn Japanese. I am not an expert on these things but here some titles I used:
- Japanese for busy people. Romanized version. A series of textbooks using Kana.
- Oxford Japanese dictionary. With lots of extra info. Learn to pronounce all the words using the Hiragana and Katakana syllables.
- 2000 most common words.
- And my favourite, a little red book 'Essential Kanji' from O'Neill.
A lovely authentic treasure with pure information. It has Kanji characters in 'Kun' ,Japanse reading, as well as 'On' the original Chinese reading. The Kanji characters are shown in pen and brush stroke versions.
feel free to say what you want to say !