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Japanese Lesson 1: Let's Start Learning With Hiragana |
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Hiragana ひらがな Hiragana, katakana and kanji are all Japanese alphabets/characters that can be combined and form a word.
One example of combination of hiragana to form a Japanese word is HELLO -> ko-n-ni-chi-wa (こ-ん-に-ち-わ). Another example is a combination of kanji and hiragana to form a Japanese word is EAT -> ta-be-ma-su (食-べ-ま-す). Hiragana can be used as a reading aid(furigana) or the pronunciation of kanji and is normally in small font above or below the kanji word(s). *Kanji is chinese characters which is read differently in the Japanese and Chinese languages. Okay! So much for the introduction on hiragana. Let's start learning each and every Japanese hiragana alphabets/characters!
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Japanese Lesson 2: Let's Start Learning With Katakana |
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Katakana カタカナ As mentioned in the Hiragana brief introduction, Katakana is Japanese alphabets/characters that can be combined and form a Japanese word. Katakana are often used for texting foreign languages (commonly is English language) words on things, country names, places, sound and person names. Giving you four examples of using Japanese Katakana is: CARD -> ka-to (カ-ト), SINGAPORE -> shi-n-ga-po-ru (シンガポール), GEORGE -> jo-ji (ジョージ) and PINPON -> pi-n-po-n (ピンポン). Although the katakana strokes are lesser than that of Hiragana, most people often find it more difficult to learn Katakana than Hiragana.
Okay! Don't worry! Practice writing more of Japanese characters and you can master these Japanese characters in no time. Let's start learning each Japanese Katakana alphabets/characters!
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Japanese Lesson 3: How To Address Family Members & People |
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Addressing of Family Members Today, let us learn how to address your family members in Japanese. You will see 2 different categories(Formal Way and Other Ways) of addressing your family members in Japanese. Formal Way is the actual way of addressing your family members while Other Ways is other ways of addressing your family members in Japanese to show affections.
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Japanese Lesson 4: How To Read/Write/Say Common Greetings |
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Greetings Greetings! There are many greetings to say during each different festivals to people. So how do you say greetings to people in Japanese? Below are the Japanese words commonly used for greetings on both normal days and on common festivals:
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Japanese Lesson 5: Revising Classrooms 3 & 4; conversations |
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Before we move on to attend more Japanese lessons, let's take a look on how we can use the Japanese words that you have learnt in past Japanese lessons 3 & 4 through the following examples in conversations format. Note that you may change the names of the person involve in these conversations, Summer-san and Winter-san and Autumn-san can be change to other people's name and to your own family members. Here we go~
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Japanese Lesson 6: How To Read/Write/Say Days, Months and Year |
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Let's learn how to read/write/say Days of the week and Months of the year in Japanese! For month, in Japanese, the word is a combination of "number + month". For example: January is Ichi-gatsu(いち ). Ichi(いちがつ) = 1, gatsu(がつ) = month. Year = nen ねん / 年 In Japanese Lesson 7, you will learn how to read/write/say numbers in Japanese. So, to read/write/say a certain year, just combine the year number in Japanese with Year (nen ねん / 年). For example: 2008 = nisen hachi nen にせんはちねん / 二千八年.
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