Japanese Particle「助詞」Part 1

*starting this class please use the translator that is already though in the previous class
(http://erogakuen.blogspot.com/2012/03/japanese-language-tool.html)
because writing again the hiragana is kinda troublesome

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Japanese Learning #4 Numbering

Then let's start learning Japanese now. We will start with remembering Japanese numbering system. And from now on there will be less latin writings. Why? to force you to remember Hiragana and Katakana that's why.

The numbering system in Japan is kinda hard to learn because it has a lot of types and each has a different way of reading. Although in Kanji the writing doesn't differ that much.

Let's start by the usual number 1st.

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Japanese Language Tools

Need tools to help you learn Japanese? There are some good tools that can help. But never rely (too much) on a Translator tools as translation from those tools are totally messed up. The right way to use a translator.. by far..is to translate the Japanese word one by one then rearranged them in your own head to make it understandable.

1 tool that I recommend to use is Translator Aggregator. Translator Aggregator is a tool that work with other Japanese Language tools to parse the Japanese word by word and to show how the way to read the Kanji. To use Translator Aggregator you need:
1. Download and install Mecab
2. Download and extract Translator Aggregator
3. Download and extract edict.gz to Translator Aggregator Dictionary folder
*update use this link for easier download working Translator Aggregator (adfly)

To use it just copy the Japanese word that you want to read and it will be automatically taken to TA and TA will show how to read it in hiragana.

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Japanese Learning #3 Learning Katakana

Now let's study katakana. Like I said before, katakana is used for any non Japanese word. But sometimes, katakana also used if the kanji for the word is hard or just to ease people reading. A quick example for it are /baka/ usually written in 「バカ」 katakana instead of the kanji「馬鹿」. For more complete usage, refer to Wikipedia entry about katakana.

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Japanese Learning #2 Learning Hiragana

Let's us study the easiest first. Hiragana. Well all you need is to remember them that's it. below is Hiragana table list.

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Japanese Learning #1 Introduction to Japanese Character

Japanese language, or in Japanese Nihon go (日本語), is a somewhat hard language to master because of the sickening amount of Kanji, one of Japanese traditional writing system, to learn. Yet because of Japan's world number one product, Anime and Manga (also Eroge ohum *clear throat* I mean Visual Novel), made lot's of people want to learn them inspite how hard it is to learn.

Now let's start the lesson by knowing the 3 basic writing system in Japanese. there are Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji. First, the basic, is Hiragana. Hiragana is the basic Japanese phonetic alphabet. It represents every sound in the Japanese language. Therefore, you can theoretically write everything in hiragana. However, because Japanese is written with no spaces, this will create nearly indecipherable text. And then there's Katakana. Katakana is the same as Hiragana on how it can be used to represent any sound but Katakana is especially used for writing foreign language/ words that is not from Japanese. Last, there is.. the monstrous in number.. almost reached to 10.000 character.. "THE" Kanji. Kanji is a Chinese character that represent almost all the word that is used in Japanese. Even though it was from Chinese character, the meaning can be the same but the word came off of it is different.

That's all for the Intro. So then let's go to the next lesson.

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