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My Suggestions for This Course
I highly suggest
communicating with someone fluent in Japanese as you take this
course. It can be a friend who knows the language
or you can find a Japanese pen-pal. Furthermore I suggest
you try writing your own Japanese sentences and have your friend or
pen-pal look at them. I have found the Japanese word processor
JWPce to be very helpfull in writing Japanese because it has a built
in Japanese dictionary. You can find links to JWPce and The
PenPal network in my links section.
If you are planning on
sending letters electronically to your pen-pal then hand write the
Japanese portion on a piece of paper. By doing this you will
probably learn to write and even read the kanji
faster.
Requirements for Starting
These
lessons assume you already know how to read and write kana which is
the phonetic writing system of Japanese. If you do not know
kana yet you can learn at Beginner
Level Japanese Course Home
Page. Furthermore the lessons will be in Unicode in
Japanese text so you will need a browser that has Japanese display
capabilities. If the text in the lessons just looks like a
bunch of garbage then check with your browser's web-site to find out
how to display Japanese text.
If you're ready to start then click
on the "Start Lessons" link below for your first lesson.
Start
Lessons
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