What Is Japanese Girls' Day (or Hinamatsuri)?
Japanese Girls' Day—also known as the Doll's Festival—is celebrated on March 3 to pray for the health and happiness of young girls in Japan. Hinamatsuri, the name of the celebration in Japan, is marked by families displaying a set of hina dolls in the house and serving special food delicacies that are ceremonially beautiful and delicious. Hina Dolls Traditionally, parents or grandparents of a newb
Kanji: an introduction
Follow along with the video below to see how to install our site as a web app on your home screen. Note: This feature may not be available in some browsers. Kanji (漢字, literally "characters from Han China") are Chinese characters used in Japanese. Kanji are one of the four character sets used in the modern Japanese writing system (the other three being hiragana, katakana and rōmaji). This article
How Do You Use the Japanese Verb "Te"
Japanese Language Expert B.A., Kwansei Gakuin University Namiko Abe is a Japanese language teacher and translator, as well as a Japanese calligraphy expert. She has been a freelance writer for nearly 20 years. The ~ te form is an important Japanese verb form to know. It does not indicate tense by itself, however, it combines with other verb forms to create other tenses. Additionally, it has many o
Onomatopoeic Phrases - hunger, eating, taste
Japanese is filled with onomatopoeic phrases, the words that describe sound or action directly. There are two categories: giongo and gitaigo. Giongo are the words which express voice or sounds. Gitaigo are the words which express actions, states or human emotions. They are often made of more than one word, which is the same word repeated again. Click here for previous lessons about onomatopoeic ph
Learn the Words That Are Used for Counting in Japanese
Hon o ni-satsu kaimashita. 本を二冊買いました。 I bought two books. Koohii o ni-hai kudasai. コーヒーを二杯ください。 Please give me two cups of coffee.Another thing we want to mention is that when the Japanese group objects they divide them into groups of five and ten, unlike the typical groupings of six and twelve in the West. For example, sets of Japanese dishes or bowls are sold in units of five. Traditionally, the
Beginner's Guide to Kanji, Hiragana and Katakana Japanese Writing
Writing might be one of the most difficult, but also fun, parts of learning Japanese. The Japanese don't use an alphabet. Instead, there are three types of scripts in Japanese: kanji, hiragana and katakana. The combination of all three is used for writing. Kanji Roughly speaking, kanji represents blocks of meaning (nouns, stems of adjectives and verbs). Kanji was brought over from China around 500
Singing "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" in Japanese
Namiko Abe is a Japanese language teacher and translator, as well as a Japanese calligraphy expert. She has been a freelance writer for nearly 20 years. The New Year (shogatsu) is the biggest and most important celebration in Japan. Christmas is not even a national holiday, although December 23 is, because of the Emperor's birthday. However, the Japanese love to celebrate festivals and have adopte
Japanese phrase of the day (useful Japanese phrases for dating) - Nande konnani dokidoki shichaun darou
Notes "Doki doki （ドキドキ）" is one of the onomatopoeic expressions. It describes increase heart beat caused by exercise or nervousness. Onomatopoeic expressions are often written in katakana, though they are not foreign words. Click here to learn more about them. "~ shichau （～しちゃう）" is a colloquial way of saying "~ shite shimau （～してしまう）." Click here for the usage of "~ chau （～ちゃう）." "~ d
The Japanese Language - Education (English)
Irasshai: Welcome to Japanese Sponsored by Georgia Public Broadcasting, this is a true distance learning course carried via television, satellite, telephone and the World Wide Web. The course includes Real Audio on the web. (Japanese and English) Kyoto Japanese Language School The Kyoto Center for Japanese Linguistic Studies. (Japanese and English) Information of Japanese Language School Japan
にほんご入門/Introduction to Japanese Language for Nihongo Learning with Speech
にほんご入門/Introduction to Japanese Language for Nihongo Learning with Speech Copyright (c) 1998-2001 Jouji Miwa. ( Access: 778683 Since 1998/8/1, Update: 2001/12/6) [In Japanese][In English] 小学生の国語教育、留学生の日本語教育に役立つにほんご入門のページ 日本語を知っている人も、日本語の不思議を再発見するかもしれません。 日本語と英語の対応のページもありますので、 英語等の語学教育にも一部役立つものと思われます。 また、夏休みの自由課題の宿題（しゅくだい）として、 日本語を調べて見るとおもしろいと思います。 アクセス数: 1,000:1998/9/14, 10,000:1998/12/6, 2
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Any plain form of a verb can be nominalized: positive, negative, present, past, continuous. So my real complaint is that I did not spend enough time in class studying plain forms. My weakness is remembering the negative past. I think too much of the beginning student's time is spent focused on learning 〜ます forms. Plain forms are used in so many ways--not just in informal speech. In "Using Japanes
Free Light Japanese to learn Japanese language
With "Free Light Japanese" you can learn Japanese writing system (Hiragana, Katakana and 1945 Joyo Kanji), vocabulary (and soon sentences) and pronunciation by using multimedia techniques. It supports 2 modes - teacher's mode and student's mode. Only Free Light Japanese has successfully incorporated the following 3 advanced technologies into the same product. multimedia based product: By combining
JAPANESE "I"
JAPANESE "I" Anyone who studies Japanese learns early on in her or his study that there are other ways of saying "I" than the standard "watakushi." This is odd from the point of view of the speakers of English and most European languages. Each form of "I" defines the speaker's notion of self-presentation according to gender, station, profession, self-image, and, sometimes, regional origin. This is
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