Beginning to learn Japanese

This great article gives an overview for the newbie Japanese learner. The author also discusses his own language learning experience.

Japanese lanaguage overview by Peter Payne

“My point in writing this article is to provide a) a very basic “quickie” overview of the Japanese language, which will hopefully reduce the shock factor for anyone preparing to study the language, and will theoretically get some people not suited to the study of Japanese to “quit while they’re ahead”; and b) some (hopefully) usefully advice for students, based heavily on my own experiences. I doubt if it’ll go as planned, but then, you’re not paying for this.”

This article includes:

• Overview of Japanese Language Intro
• Japanese language overview
• Hiragana
• Katakana
• Kanji
• Japanese grammar overview
• Ten sentences to understand

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