Teach Yourself Japanese

Last update: May 23, 1998

Created by TAKASUGI Shinji (surname first - Japanese way)
This more friendly version for the US is maintained by Kikuko
WARNING: All of the java pages are straight from the japanese link!

Introduction to Japanese
Standard hiraganas
Double hiraganas
- Double hiraganas for consonants + /y/ + vowels
- Double hiraganas used only for imported words
Other kana information
- Pronunciations and Romanization
- Hiragana table
- Hiragana shapes
- Katakana table
- Katakana shapes
- Punctuation
- Java program to memorize kanas (remember warning!)
- Java program to display kanas (remember warning!)
- Java game of hiraganas and katakanas (remember warning!)
Numbers, the names of the months and the days
- Small numbers
- Large numbers
- Counters
- Java program to display numbers (remember warning!)
- The names of the months and the days
Greetings
Basic grammar
- Cases and postpositions
- Topics and focuses
- Verbs
- Copula
- Adjectives
- Relative clauses
- Negative forms
- Java program to display inflections (remember warning!)
- Emotion markers
- Questions (under construction)
Vocabulary
- Colors
Actual conversation

The ZIP packages of the Teach Yourself Japanese site are here.
WARNING!: These sites are from the original Japanese site so don't be alarmed if it takes a while to load.

File	Size	Contents
japanese0420.zip	HTML files, Java applets	April 20, 1998
hiragana0307.zip	GIF files for hiraganas	March 7, 1998
katakana0307.zip	GIF files for katakanas	March 7, 1998
audio0420.zip	Audio files	April 20, 1998

Download these files and use UNZIP to get the whole package of this site.
The base HTML file will be your_directory/japanese/index.html .

The Gate of Japanese

Links

Byte of Japanese - small article of Japanese featured in English. May be available biweekly.
Gateway to Japan - Foreign Languages and Literature, St. Cloud State University
Jim Breen's Japanese Page
Kanji's Japanese Page - files for students of Japanese at intermediate level, Japanese law names in English, Man'yoshu poems, Benkyo Mailing List intro and sample messages.
Language in Dewa - Information about dialect of Yamagata Prefecture, Japan.
Nihon-no-Kotowaza - Japanese idioms and proverbs.
Nihongo Forum - a common place for Japanese language learners, researchers, and Japanese computing specialists to exchange thoughts and information.
Nihongo: Japanese Language - includes numeral classifiers, American/Japanese higher numbers, Nihongo notes index
Otake Japanese Calligraphy - selected Kanji characters.
Shodouka - Don't have a Japanese operating system or Japanese fonts installed? View Japanese WWW pages on any graphical browser with this service!
Ste-chan's Kanji of the Day - Improve your Kanji count day by day. I'll teach you 2 new Kanji characters each business day. Learn Japanese the easy way.
Travelers' Japanese with Voice
Using Japanese on Internet - Contains various resources, links and guides to support 'using Japanese on Internet
Using Japanese Slang
FAQ - Alternative sci.lang.japan
FAQ - sci.lang.japan - From the newsgroup about the Japanese language.
k.tok's home page - Japanese customs, etc.

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