き KI – One of the basic Hiragana characters. Hiragana is phonetic in nature. The characters represent sounds, and can be combined to form the sounds of words. Hiragana characters are used for Japanese words only. Hiragana is composed of 50 sounds, of which 46 are currently in use. One interesting thing is the base…
Category Archives: Japanese
Learning Japanese – Online Resources
I’m beginning a list of online resources for learning Japanese. Most sites will be free, so perhaps this will leave off some of the better sites. http://www.guidetojapanese.org/index.html#contents http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/jwb/wwwjdic?9T http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Shrine/7047/hboth.htm That’s just a few links. The plan is to get them all organized and posted on a Page vs a post.Please contribute any links that might…
Learning Japanese
Japanese for Busy People I: Kana Version includes CD (Japanese for Busy People Series) So I’m interested in learning Japanese. The above book comes recommended from one of my contacts as a best of type book for learning. This particular version is the Kana version, meaning it will not be Romanized or Western text. Also…
