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Beginner Level Articles
Articles for Beginners of Japanese
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| 愛の告白 Confession of Love |
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| ウサギと亀 The Tortoise and the Hare |
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| Body Idioms Part III |
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| Body Idioms Part II |
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| Japanese Beginner Phrases Podcast 10 |
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| Using nara なら | Using なら with example sentences | |||
| Body Idioms Part I |
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| Country Names, Languages, and People | Country Names, Languages, and People in Japanese. Flash file with sound. | |||
| Japanese Beginner Phrases Podcast 9 |
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| Japanese Beginner Phrases Podcast 8 |
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| 一寸法師 The Inch-High Samurai Issunboushi |
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| Japanese Online Word and Phrasebook with Audio |
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| Bubbles しゃぼん玉 |
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| Sakura さくら |
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| When I Become a First Grader |
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| List of な-Adjectives | A list of common beginner level -na adjectives with mouseover readings. | |||
| List of い-Adjectives Part 2 | A list of common beginner level -i adjective vocabulary words grouped by the categories with mouseover readings. | |||
| List of い-Adjectives Part 1 | A list of common beginner level -i adjective vocabulary words grouped by the categories: Temperatures, Amounts, Sizes, and others with examples and mouseover readings. | |||
| The Year | The Seasons and Month names in Japanese. Mouseover to see the reading. | |||
| Japanese Beginner Phrases Podcast 7 |
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| Japanese Beginner Phrases Podcast 6 |
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| Kanji Introduction |
 There are about 2000 kanji needed to be literate in Japan. But in reality, knowing just a couple hundred will allow you to read most anything with the aid of a dictionary. Very few foreigners have mastered kanji. Could you be one of them?
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| Kanji Stroke Order | Basic rules for the stroke order of kanji. | |||
| 舌切りすずめ The Cut-Tongue Sparrow |
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| Chapter One |
 Frank and the Obaasan Chapter one: Frank contemplates his two options before his spaceship crumbles to pieces. With Video, Audio, and vocabulary/grammar explanations
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| Frank's Vocabulary |
All the vocabulary for the Frank and the Obaasan Chapters.
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| Frank and the Obaasan Japanese Lessons |
A TJP Original Beginning Japanese Reader with Audio
While on an intergalactic spy mission, Frank the alien loses control of his spaceship and plummets to Earth; Fukui, Japan to be precise. Lacking Essential repair materials, Frank must learn the earthlings language and find earth equivalents of the materials needed to repair his ship. |
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| Time Squares: Speaking About Duration | Japanese does not have an entirely consistent pattern for speaking about units of calendar time: days, weeks, months, and the like. For example, “last week” is sen-shu ; “last year” is kyo-nen . However, when written, many concepts are represented by the same kanji . For this reason, this article has been organized into conceptual units so that these basic connections between the spoken and written language can be understood. | |||
| Learn Kana |
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| 男らしい Manly |
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