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AUDIO JAPANESE LESSONS, SONGS, AND PODCASTS Audio Files at TJP Study Japanese with Audio Lessons, Audiobooks, and Podcasts ゆきの物語 - Yuki's Story Ame ni mo Makezu Japanese Poem 芥川龍之介 - 鼻 Akutagawa's Hana 舌切りすずめ The Cut-Tongue Sparrow 一寸法師 The Inch-High Samurai Issunboushi ウサギと亀 The Tortoise and the Hare John Chapter 1:1-5 J JAPANESE KANJI PAGES New to Kanji? Click here for a quick introduction. Or jump right in with beginner-level kanji below or specific kanji-related articles below that. If you use Anki (highly recommended), our friend, Florian-san, created an Anki deck for JLPT N5 kanji. Click here to download for free.Whether you ar JAPANESE READERS AND STORIES Japanese Readers and Stories. Subscribe to Makoto+ for a few bucks a month and get Makoto ezine, haiku lessons, repetition and shadowing, tongue twisters, and much more! Check out our growing library of our highly-discounted, instant downloadable digital bundles. 百 | LEARN JAPANESE ONLINE Launching in 2000, The Japanese Page (TJP) has helped thousands and thousands of people get a start with Japanese. With its free Japanese lessons online and now its Makoto+ membership club, we want TJP to be your quality source for learning Japanese.Many, many thanks to all our wonderful Makoto+ members and TheJapanShop.com customers who make TJP

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TRADITIONAL JAPANESE CHILDREN'S SONGS WITH SOUND AND Learn a dozen highly popular Japanese traditional children's songs with vocabulary lessons and sound files. Listen, read, and learn while enjoying the sounds of traditional Japan. 水 | LEARN JAPANESE ONLINE Kanji: 水 mizu waterSqueeze a river (川) and you get water.JLPT N5: 24 / 100 | 4 Strokes水On: スイKun: みずMeaning: waterThis kanji as a radical often looks like 氵 and is found with kanji dealing with water.Stroke Order:Examples:大水 oo mizu - flood 水着 mizu gi - swimsuit, bathing suit水曜日 sui you bi - LEARNING JAPANESE KANJI: WHAT ARE ON AND KUN READINGS AND On, Kun? What is That? And When Do I Use Which?Hiragana, katakana, and kanji are the three legs that make up the Japanese writing system stool. The kana (a classification name for hiragana and katakana together) are fairly easy to learn in just a few weeks of careful study. Kanji, on the other h NIHONGO TO TANE 37: 嫌いなものを好きになる LEARNING TO LIKE

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new to Japanese,

AUDIO JAPANESE LESSONS, SONGS, AND PODCASTS Audio Files at TJP Study Japanese with Audio Lessons, Audiobooks, and Podcasts ゆきの物語 - Yuki's Story Ame ni mo Makezu Japanese Poem 芥川龍之介 - 鼻 Akutagawa's Hana 舌切りすずめ The Cut-Tongue Sparrow 一寸法師 The Inch-High Samurai Issunboushi ウサギと亀 The Tortoise and the Hare John Chapter 1:1-5 J JAPANESE KANJI PAGES New to Kanji? Click here for a quick introduction. Or jump right in with beginner-level kanji below or specific kanji-related articles below that. If you use Anki (highly recommended), our friend, Florian-san, created an Anki deck for JLPT N5 kanji. Click here to download for free.Whether you ar JAPANESE READERS AND STORIES Japanese Readers and Stories. Subscribe to Makoto+ for a few bucks a month and get Makoto ezine, haiku lessons, repetition and shadowing, tongue twisters, and much more! Check out our growing library of our highly-discounted, instant downloadable digital bundles. 百 | LEARN JAPANESE ONLINE Launching in 2000, The Japanese Page (TJP) has helped thousands and thousands of people get a start with Japanese. With its free Japanese lessons online and now its Makoto+ membership club, we want TJP to be your quality source for learning Japanese.Many, many thanks to all our wonderful Makoto+ members and TheJapanShop.com customers who make TJP

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TRADITIONAL JAPANESE CHILDREN'S SONGS WITH SOUND AND Learn a dozen highly popular Japanese traditional children's songs with vocabulary lessons and sound files. Listen, read, and learn while enjoying the sounds of traditional Japan. 水 | LEARN JAPANESE ONLINE Kanji: 水 mizu waterSqueeze a river (川) and you get water.JLPT N5: 24 / 100 | 4 Strokes水On: スイKun: みずMeaning: waterThis kanji as a radical often looks like 氵 and is found with kanji dealing with water.Stroke Order:Examples:大水 oo mizu - flood 水着 mizu gi - swimsuit, bathing suit水曜日 sui you bi - LEARNING JAPANESE KANJI: WHAT ARE ON AND KUN READINGS AND On, Kun? What is That? And When Do I Use Which?Hiragana, katakana, and kanji are the three legs that make up the Japanese writing system stool. The kana (a classification name for hiragana and katakana together) are fairly easy to learn in just a few weeks of careful study. Kanji, on the other h NIHONGO TO TANE 37: 嫌いなものを好きになる LEARNING TO LIKE

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LEARN JAPANESE ONLINE The Japanese Page provides Japanese study lessons to help thousands of people learn Japanese online for free. And also offer Makoto+ Membership; the Fun Japanese not found in Textbooks. We have articles and lessons for beginner, intermediate, and advanced students. JAPANESE GRAMMAR LESSONS Learning a new language can be a lot of fun. But it is important to begin your learning with structure. You don’t want to end up knowing random or useless information that will sap your motivation once the initial enthusiasm fades.This page is the first in five lessons that cover 100 grammar poi JAPANESE KANJI PAGES New to Kanji? Click here for a quick introduction. Or jump right in with beginner-level kanji below or specific kanji-related articles below that. If you use Anki (highly recommended), our friend, Florian-san, created an Anki deck for JLPT N5 kanji. Click here to download for free.Whether you ar AUDIO JAPANESE LESSONS, SONGS, AND PODCASTS Audio Files at TJP Study Japanese with Audio Lessons, Audiobooks, and Podcasts ゆきの物語 - Yuki's Story Ame ni mo Makezu Japanese Poem 芥川龍之介 - 鼻 Akutagawa's Hana 舌切りすずめ The Cut-Tongue Sparrow 一寸法師 The Inch-High Samurai Issunboushi ウサギと亀 The Tortoise and the Hare John Chapter 1:1-5 J AUDIO FOR LEARNING JAPANESE We have free audio lessons and stories below, but be sure to also check out our money-saving digital bundles of eBooks (all with audio) over at our store.. Not only will you save about half off Amazon prices, you'll also get free lifetime updates (whenever we add new books or edit old ones--you get for free) and you'll be helping to support this site--thank you! 国 | LEARN JAPANESE ONLINE Launching in 2000, The Japanese Page (TJP) has helped thousands and thousands of people get a start with Japanese. With its free Japanese lessons online and now its Makoto+ membership club, we want TJP to be your quality source for learning Japanese.Many, many thanks to all our wonderful Makoto+ members and TheJapanShop.com customers who make TJP

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ZUTSU (ずつ)

Grammar Power Words from JLPT N4 Zutsu (ずつ) ずつ zutsu Meaning: little by little; dividing by; each JLPT Level: N4 Examples 一日漢字を10個ずつ勉強しましょう！ ichi nichi kanji o juu ko zutsu benkyou shimashou! a day-kanji-(direct object)-ten-units-a piece-study-let's Let's study 10 kanji a day.

Notes: T

WHAT ARE THE CARDINAL DIRECTIONS IN JAPANESE? Notice these words also only use the on yomi readings. Also note that you start with whichever cardinal direction is closest (north-south-east-west). Other than the fact the inter-cardinal directions use on yomi and the four main cardinal directions use kun yomi, the compass directions in Japanese is pretty straightforward.Let's wrap things up with one last quiz. BEGINNING JAPANESE PHRASES PODCAST 40: に住んでいます NI … Beginning Japanese Phrases Podcast 40: に住んでいます ni sunde imasu – lives in | Practice Japanese with examples, sound files, video, vocabulary, and quiz! JAPANESE DIALOGUES: AT THE RESTAURANT Use the sound player below to listen while you go sentence-by-sentence.Dialogue: At the Restaurantあの、すみませんが、今夜(こんや)8(はち)時(じ)に予約(よやく)をしたいのですが。Show Ro-maji, Translation, Glossary, and Notesano, sumimasen ga, konya hachi ji ni yoyaku wo shitai no desu ga.Hello. I would like to make a

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new to Japanese,

AUDIO JAPANESE LESSONS, SONGS, AND PODCASTS Audio Files at TJP Study Japanese with Audio Lessons, Audiobooks, and Podcasts ゆきの物語 - Yuki's Story Ame ni mo Makezu Japanese Poem 芥川龍之介 - 鼻 Akutagawa's Hana 舌切りすずめ The Cut-Tongue Sparrow 一寸法師 The Inch-High Samurai Issunboushi ウサギと亀 The Tortoise and the Hare John Chapter 1:1-5 J JAPANESE KANJI PAGES New to Kanji? Click here for a quick introduction. Or jump right in with beginner-level kanji below or specific kanji-related articles below that. If you use Anki (highly recommended), our friend, Florian-san, created an Anki deck for JLPT N5 kanji. Click here to download for free.Whether you ar JAPANESE READERS AND STORIES Japanese Readers and Stories. Subscribe to Makoto+ for a few bucks a month and get Makoto ezine, haiku lessons, repetition and shadowing, tongue twisters, and much more! Check out our growing library of our highly-discounted, instant downloadable digital bundles. 百 | LEARN JAPANESE ONLINE Launching in 2000, The Japanese Page (TJP) has helped thousands and thousands of people get a start with Japanese. With its free Japanese lessons online and now its Makoto+ membership club, we want TJP to be your quality source for learning Japanese.Many, many thanks to all our wonderful Makoto+ members and TheJapanShop.com customers who make TJP

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TRADITIONAL JAPANESE CHILDREN'S SONGS WITH SOUND AND Learn a dozen highly popular Japanese traditional children's songs with vocabulary lessons and sound files. Listen, read, and learn while enjoying the sounds of traditional Japan. 水 | LEARN JAPANESE ONLINE Kanji: 水 mizu waterSqueeze a river (川) and you get water.JLPT N5: 24 / 100 | 4 Strokes水On: スイKun: みずMeaning: waterThis kanji as a radical often looks like 氵 and is found with kanji dealing with water.Stroke Order:Examples:大水 oo mizu - flood 水着 mizu gi - swimsuit, bathing suit水曜日 sui you bi - LEARNING JAPANESE KANJI: WHAT ARE ON AND KUN READINGS AND On, Kun? What is That? And When Do I Use Which?Hiragana, katakana, and kanji are the three legs that make up the Japanese writing system stool. The kana (a classification name for hiragana and katakana together) are fairly easy to learn in just a few weeks of careful study. Kanji, on the other h NIHONGO TO TANE 37: 嫌いなものを好きになる LEARNING TO LIKE

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new to Japanese,

AUDIO JAPANESE LESSONS, SONGS, AND PODCASTS Audio Files at TJP Study Japanese with Audio Lessons, Audiobooks, and Podcasts ゆきの物語 - Yuki's Story Ame ni mo Makezu Japanese Poem 芥川龍之介 - 鼻 Akutagawa's Hana 舌切りすずめ The Cut-Tongue Sparrow 一寸法師 The Inch-High Samurai Issunboushi ウサギと亀 The Tortoise and the Hare John Chapter 1:1-5 J JAPANESE KANJI PAGES New to Kanji? Click here for a quick introduction. Or jump right in with beginner-level kanji below or specific kanji-related articles below that. If you use Anki (highly recommended), our friend, Florian-san, created an Anki deck for JLPT N5 kanji. Click here to download for free.Whether you ar JAPANESE READERS AND STORIES Japanese Readers and Stories. Subscribe to Makoto+ for a few bucks a month and get Makoto ezine, haiku lessons, repetition and shadowing, tongue twisters, and much more! Check out our growing library of our highly-discounted, instant downloadable digital bundles. 百 | LEARN JAPANESE ONLINE Launching in 2000, The Japanese Page (TJP) has helped thousands and thousands of people get a start with Japanese. With its free Japanese lessons online and now its Makoto+ membership club, we want TJP to be your quality source for learning Japanese.Many, many thanks to all our wonderful Makoto+ members and TheJapanShop.com customers who make TJP

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TRADITIONAL JAPANESE CHILDREN'S SONGS WITH SOUND AND Learn a dozen highly popular Japanese traditional children's songs with vocabulary lessons and sound files. Listen, read, and learn while enjoying the sounds of traditional Japan. 水 | LEARN JAPANESE ONLINE Kanji: 水 mizu waterSqueeze a river (川) and you get water.JLPT N5: 24 / 100 | 4 Strokes水On: スイKun: みずMeaning: waterThis kanji as a radical often looks like 氵 and is found with kanji dealing with water.Stroke Order:Examples:大水 oo mizu - flood 水着 mizu gi - swimsuit, bathing suit水曜日 sui you bi - LEARNING JAPANESE KANJI: WHAT ARE ON AND KUN READINGS AND On, Kun? What is That? And When Do I Use Which?Hiragana, katakana, and kanji are the three legs that make up the Japanese writing system stool. The kana (a classification name for hiragana and katakana together) are fairly easy to learn in just a few weeks of careful study. Kanji, on the other h NIHONGO TO TANE 37: 嫌いなものを好きになる LEARNING TO LIKE

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LEARN JAPANESE ONLINE The Japanese Page provides Japanese study lessons to help thousands of people learn Japanese online for free. And also offer Makoto+ Membership; the Fun Japanese not found in Textbooks. We have articles and lessons for beginner, intermediate, and advanced students. JAPANESE GRAMMAR LESSONS Learning a new language can be a lot of fun. But it is important to begin your learning with structure. You don’t want to end up knowing random or useless information that will sap your motivation once the initial enthusiasm fades.This page is the first in five lessons that cover 100 grammar poi JAPANESE KANJI PAGES New to Kanji? Click here for a quick introduction. Or jump right in with beginner-level kanji below or specific kanji-related articles below that. If you use Anki (highly recommended), our friend, Florian-san, created an Anki deck for JLPT N5 kanji. Click here to download for free.Whether you ar AUDIO JAPANESE LESSONS, SONGS, AND PODCASTS Audio Files at TJP Study Japanese with Audio Lessons, Audiobooks, and Podcasts ゆきの物語 - Yuki's Story Ame ni mo Makezu Japanese Poem 芥川龍之介 - 鼻 Akutagawa's Hana 舌切りすずめ The Cut-Tongue Sparrow 一寸法師 The Inch-High Samurai Issunboushi ウサギと亀 The Tortoise and the Hare John Chapter 1:1-5 J AUDIO FOR LEARNING JAPANESE We have free audio lessons and stories below, but be sure to also check out our money-saving digital bundles of eBooks (all with audio) over at our store.. Not only will you save about half off Amazon prices, you'll also get free lifetime updates (whenever we add new books or edit old ones--you get for free) and you'll be helping to support this site--thank you! 国 | LEARN JAPANESE ONLINE Launching in 2000, The Japanese Page (TJP) has helped thousands and thousands of people get a start with Japanese. With its free Japanese lessons online and now its Makoto+ membership club, we want TJP to be your quality source for learning Japanese.Many, many thanks to all our wonderful Makoto+ members and TheJapanShop.com customers who make TJP

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ZUTSU (ずつ)

Grammar Power Words from JLPT N4 Zutsu (ずつ) ずつ zutsu Meaning: little by little; dividing by; each JLPT Level: N4 Examples 一日漢字を10個ずつ勉強しましょう！ ichi nichi kanji o juu ko zutsu benkyou shimashou! a day-kanji-(direct object)-ten-units-a piece-study-let's Let's study 10 kanji a day.

Notes: T

WHAT ARE THE CARDINAL DIRECTIONS IN JAPANESE? Notice these words also only use the on yomi readings. Also note that you start with whichever cardinal direction is closest (north-south-east-west). Other than the fact the inter-cardinal directions use on yomi and the four main cardinal directions use kun yomi, the compass directions in Japanese is pretty straightforward.Let's wrap things up with one last quiz. BEGINNING JAPANESE PHRASES PODCAST 40: に住んでいます NI … Beginning Japanese Phrases Podcast 40: に住んでいます ni sunde imasu – lives in | Practice Japanese with examples, sound files, video, vocabulary, and quiz! JAPANESE DIALOGUES: AT THE RESTAURANT Use the sound player below to listen while you go sentence-by-sentence.Dialogue: At the Restaurantあの、すみませんが、今夜(こんや)8(はち)時(じ)に予約(よやく)をしたいのですが。Show Ro-maji, Translation, Glossary, and Notesano, sumimasen ga, konya hachi ji ni yoyaku wo shitai no desu ga.Hello. I would like to make a

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Please note most of the files are very old (some 20 years old!). JLPT has changed to the N levels and there may be errors galore. Still, the core information should be fine.Please use the menu above to see all the new content TheJapanesePage.com has to offer for free. If you are

new to Japanese,

JAPANESE GRAMMAR LESSONS Learning a new language can be a lot of fun. But it is important to begin your learning with structure. You don’t want to end up knowing random or useless information that will sap your motivation once the initial enthusiasm fades.This page is the first in five lessons that cover 100 grammar poi JAPANESE READERS AND STORIES Japanese Readers and Stories. Subscribe to Makoto+ for a few bucks a month and get Makoto ezine, haiku lessons, repetition and shadowing, tongue twisters, and much more! Check out our growing library of our highly-discounted, instant downloadable digital bundles. 百 | LEARN JAPANESE ONLINE Launching in 2000, The Japanese Page (TJP) has helped thousands and thousands of people get a start with Japanese. With its free Japanese lessons online and now its Makoto+ membership club, we want TJP to be your quality source for learning Japanese.Many, many thanks to all our wonderful Makoto+ members and TheJapanShop.com customers who make TJP

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TRADITIONAL JAPANESE CHILDREN'S SONGS WITH SOUND AND Learn a dozen highly popular Japanese traditional children's songs with vocabulary lessons and sound files. Listen, read, and learn while enjoying the sounds of traditional Japan. 水 | LEARN JAPANESE ONLINE Kanji: 水 mizu waterSqueeze a river (川) and you get water.JLPT N5: 24 / 100 | 4 Strokes水On: スイKun: みずMeaning: waterThis kanji as a radical often looks like 氵 and is found with kanji dealing with water.Stroke Order:Examples:大水 oo mizu - flood 水着 mizu gi - swimsuit, bathing suit水曜日 sui you bi - NIHONGO TO TANE 37: 嫌いなものを好きになる LEARNING TO LIKE

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5 FUN ANIME FIGHTING PHRASES IN JAPANESE Here are five kakkoii fighting phrases you might hear in anime Japanese or read in manga. Listen for them when you get to the fighting scenes. Please note, all five of these can be rude--they are, after all, fighting words. Be careful how you use them, but saying them to your close Japanese frie ADDING FURIGANA TO YOUR MICROSOFT WORD DOCUMENT Most people have no trouble getting their computer to type Japanese, but adding furigana (small hiragana over kanji) for documents and PDFs can be a little harder. This page will discuss how to add furigana in Microsoft Word 2007 up. Earlier versions of Word also have this feature and the setup LEARN JAPANESE ONLINE The Japanese Page provides Japanese study lessons to help thousands of people learn Japanese online for free. And also offer Makoto+ Membership; the Fun Japanese not found in Textbooks. We have articles and lessons for beginner, intermediate, and advanced students.

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new to Japanese,

JAPANESE GRAMMAR LESSONS Learning a new language can be a lot of fun. But it is important to begin your learning with structure. You don’t want to end up knowing random or useless information that will sap your motivation once the initial enthusiasm fades.This page is the first in five lessons that cover 100 grammar poi JAPANESE READERS AND STORIES Japanese Readers and Stories. Subscribe to Makoto+ for a few bucks a month and get Makoto ezine, haiku lessons, repetition and shadowing, tongue twisters, and much more! Check out our growing library of our highly-discounted, instant downloadable digital bundles. 百 | LEARN JAPANESE ONLINE Launching in 2000, The Japanese Page (TJP) has helped thousands and thousands of people get a start with Japanese. With its free Japanese lessons online and now its Makoto+ membership club, we want TJP to be your quality source for learning Japanese.Many, many thanks to all our wonderful Makoto+ members and TheJapanShop.com customers who make TJP

possible.

TRADITIONAL JAPANESE CHILDREN'S SONGS WITH SOUND AND Learn a dozen highly popular Japanese traditional children's songs with vocabulary lessons and sound files. Listen, read, and learn while enjoying the sounds of traditional Japan. 水 | LEARN JAPANESE ONLINE Kanji: 水 mizu waterSqueeze a river (川) and you get water.JLPT N5: 24 / 100 | 4 Strokes水On: スイKun: みずMeaning: waterThis kanji as a radical often looks like 氵 and is found with kanji dealing with water.Stroke Order:Examples:大水 oo mizu - flood 水着 mizu gi - swimsuit, bathing suit水曜日 sui you bi - NIHONGO TO TANE 37: 嫌いなものを好きになる LEARNING TO LIKE

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5 FUN ANIME FIGHTING PHRASES IN JAPANESE Here are five kakkoii fighting phrases you might hear in anime Japanese or read in manga. Listen for them when you get to the fighting scenes. Please note, all five of these can be rude--they are, after all, fighting words. Be careful how you use them, but saying them to your close Japanese frie ADDING FURIGANA TO YOUR MICROSOFT WORD DOCUMENT Most people have no trouble getting their computer to type Japanese, but adding furigana (small hiragana over kanji) for documents and PDFs can be a little harder. This page will discuss how to add furigana in Microsoft Word 2007 up. Earlier versions of Word also have this feature and the setup AUDIO JAPANESE LESSONS, SONGS, AND PODCASTS Audio Files at TJP Study Japanese with Audio Lessons, Audiobooks, and Podcasts ゆきの物語 - Yuki's Story Ame ni mo Makezu Japanese Poem 芥川龍之介 - 鼻 Akutagawa's Hana 舌切りすずめ The Cut-Tongue Sparrow 一寸法師 The Inch-High Samurai Issunboushi ウサギと亀 The Tortoise and the Hare John Chapter 1:1-5 J JAPANESE READERS AND STORIES Japanese Readers and Stories. Subscribe to Makoto+ for a few bucks a month and get Makoto ezine, haiku lessons, repetition and shadowing, tongue twisters, and much more! Check out our growing library of our highly-discounted, instant downloadable digital bundles. JAPANESE KANJI PAGES New to Kanji? Click here for a quick introduction. Or jump right in with beginner-level kanji below or specific kanji-related articles below that. If you use Anki (highly recommended), our friend, Florian-san, created an Anki deck for JLPT N5 kanji. Click here to download for free.Whether you ar AUDIO FOR LEARNING JAPANESE We have free audio lessons and stories below, but be sure to also check out our money-saving digital bundles of eBooks (all with audio) over at our store.. Not only will you save about half off Amazon prices, you'll also get free lifetime updates (whenever we add new books or edit old ones--you get for free) and you'll be helping to support this site--thank you! 国 | LEARN JAPANESE ONLINE Launching in 2000, The Japanese Page (TJP) has helped thousands and thousands of people get a start with Japanese. With its free Japanese lessons online and now its Makoto+ membership club, we want TJP to be your quality source for learning Japanese.Many, many thanks to all our wonderful Makoto+ members and TheJapanShop.com customers who make TJP

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ZUTSU (ずつ)

Grammar Power Words from JLPT N4 Zutsu (ずつ) ずつ zutsu Meaning: little by little; dividing by; each JLPT Level: N4 Examples 一日漢字を10個ずつ勉強しましょう！ ichi nichi kanji o juu ko zutsu benkyou shimashou! a day-kanji-(direct object)-ten-units-a piece-study-let's Let's study 10 kanji a day.

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LEARN KATAKANA NOW!

A FEW POINTS. Katakana is known as the more "masculine" of the Japanese writing systems. This is because most of the characters are rigid and have sharp turns. Katakana is mainly used for foreign loan-words, non-Japanese names, and onomatopoeia (sound effects). For example: Cola is コーラ ko-ra. BEGINNING JAPANESE PHRASES PODCAST 40: に住んでいます NI … Beginning Japanese Phrases Podcast 40: に住んでいます ni sunde imasu – lives in | Practice Japanese with examples, sound files, video, vocabulary, and quiz! JAPANESE DIALOGUES: AT THE RESTAURANT Use the sound player below to listen while you go sentence-by-sentence.Dialogue: At the Restaurantあの、すみませんが、今夜(こんや)8(はち)時(じ)に予約(よやく)をしたいのですが。Show Ro-maji, Translation, Glossary, and Notesano, sumimasen ga, konya hachi ji ni yoyaku wo shitai no desu ga.Hello. I would like to make a

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Grammar Power Words from JLPT N4 Zutsu (ずつ) ずつ zutsu Meaning: little by little; dividing by; each JLPT Level: N4 Examples 一日漢字を10個ずつ勉強しましょう！ ichi nichi kanji o juu ko zutsu benkyou shimashou! a day-kanji-(direct object)-ten-units-a piece-study-let's Let's study 10 kanji a day.

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分 | LEARN JAPANESE ONLINE Kanji: 分 bun Part JLPT N5: 57 / 100 | 4 Strokes 分 On: ふん; ぶんKun: わ・ける Meaning: part; portion The bottom part is a sword ( 刀 ) and think of the sword dividing the top part into two parts. Stroke Order: Examples:半分 han bun - half部分 bu bun - a part気分 ki bun - feeling, mood分かりました wakarimashita -

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Meaning: secrecy; density; minuteness; carefulness. Kanji Parts: 宀 roof; house. 必 inevitably; certainly; definiteness. 山 mountain. Etymology: I think of the scene in Lord of the Rings where the Council meets at Elrond's house 宀 and Frodo realizes it is inevitable 必 he must go to the mountain 山, Mount Doom. It is a secret mission LIST OF い I ADJECTIVES IN JAPANESE List of い-AdjectivesA list of common beginner level -i adjective vocabulary words grouped by categories. Click here to learn more about い i adjectives in general.Temperature熱いatsuihot (thing)あたたかいatatakaiwarm暑いatsuihot (weather)涼しいsuzushiicool; refreshing冷たいtsumetaicold (to

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