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Japanese Lessons: Part 7

Posted February 21st, 2012 at 06:56 PM by Scarf (The Uncarved Blog)
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Lesson 1: hiragana
Lesson 2: katakana
Lesson 3: more kana

Lesson 4: grammar intro

Lesson 5: kanji

Lesson
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Lesson 6: kanji/vocab



This comes completely out of order from the way you're supposed to learn it, but here we go anyway. Today you get to learn about introductions.

Meeting people for the first time is a pretty standard affair, especially for non-natives like us. It helps break the ice when meeting...
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Japanese Lessons: Part 6

Posted January 26th, 2012 at 10:14 PM by Scarf (The Uncarved Blog)
Tags japanese

Lesson 1: hiragana
Lesson 2: katakana
Lesson 3: more kana

Lesson 4: grammar intro

Lesson 5: kanji

Lesson
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This here is another kanji lesson. Sort of. It's more of a vocabulary/kanji lesson so you can learn to recognize a few helpful words. When necessary I'll include some other bits of grammar.

Let me first reacquaint you with some friends from previous posts. This time I'm also including some vocab that
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Japanese Lessons: Part 5½

Posted January 19th, 2012 at 11:57 PM by Scarf (The Uncarved Blog)
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Lesson 1: hiragana
Lesson 2: katakana
Lesson 3: more kana

Lesson 4: grammar intro

Lesson 5: kanji



If you saw my last blog lesson you'd have seen a whole bunch of kanji on it, most of which I didn't bother to identify. I'm doing that now. I've got all 79 of them here with pronunciation guides in both kana and romaji, and basic glosses.


This is just a followup post in case you want to do some extra studying. A more real lesson
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Japanese Lessons: Part 5

Posted January 18th, 2012 at 11:55 PM by Scarf (The Uncarved Blog)
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Lesson 1: hiragana
Lesson 2: katakana
Lesson 3: more kana
Lesson 4: grammar intro


I've got a great topic for you today: Kanji. Let me start by throwing a bunch at you and scaring you away letting you familiarize yourself with what kanji look like.

一二三四五六七八九十
千人口山上下小大日月
火水木金土入力子女川
手王犬中天文出左右玉
田石正生白本目立耳字
休年竹先早百名車花貝
見町男赤足村雨空青林
森音草校円学気糸虫

Intimidating, yes, but we'll start...
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Japanese Lessons: Part 4

Posted January 6th, 2012 at 09:25 PM by Scarf (The Uncarved Blog)
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Lesson 1: hiragana
Lesson 2: katakana
Lesson 3: more kana

Changing directions a bit. This lesson will deal with grammar and introduce the easiest sentence structure you'll see in Japanese. And here it is:

X は Y です
[X wa Y desu.]

That is the most basic way you can say: "X is Y." Before going further with what you can put in for X and Y there's something important. You see the three kana there, yes? The last two,...
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