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Learning Kanji – Beginner Concepts and Simple Strategies

The most daunting yet fulfilling to learn alphabet in Japanese is Kanji. Kanji literally means “Chinese character,” because literally the alphabet derived from Chinese characters. In English, it’s...

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Learning Kanji – Simple Strategies and Your First Two Kanji

Learning Kanji can be a daunting task. There are about 1,000 – 2,000 Kanji that are necessary to learn in order to be able to read newspapers, street signs, and menus in Japanese. With all these Kanji...

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Written Japanese – The Lowdown on the 3 Alphabets

Scared of written Japanese? Does the thought of learning kanji 漢字 (the Chinese characters) give you sudden dread and make you want to sign up for French or Spanish or German or Farsi?? Japanese is...

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今年の漢字

WIT Life is a periodic series written by professional Writer/Interpreter/Translator Stacy Smith (Kumamoto-ken CIR, 2000-03).  She starts her day by watching Fujisankei’s newscast in Japanese, and here...

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Successful Strategies for Remembering and Using Kanji

Let’s face it, 漢字 kanji is torture. It is. It’s Chinese characters that have been tweaked to *fit into Japanese, and have both Chinese readings, 音読み on’yomi, and Japanese readings, 訓読み kun’yomi. Not to...

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