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...
View ArticleLearning 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...
View ArticleWritten 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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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...
View ArticleSuccessful 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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