Beginner Japanese

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Contents 1 Learning Project Summary 2 Content summary 3 Goals 4 Learning materials 4.1 Texts 4.2 Lessons 4.2.1 Grammar 4.2.2 Situations 4.3 Activities 5 Active participants

[edit] Content summary

[edit] Goals

[edit] Learning materials

[edit] Texts

• Japanese
• Tae Kim's Japanese Guide to Japanese Grammar

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Note: The lessons assume you have learned the kana. If you have no idea what kana means, please go through Introduction to Japanese first.

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• Lesson 1: Japanese Existence and Copula
• Lesson 2: Particles in Japanese
• Lesson 3: Japanese Adjectives
• Lesson 4: Japanese Verbs
• Lesson 5: Japanese Particles used with Verbs

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• Lesson 6: Japanese Politeness

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After the first five gramma lessons you have learned enough grammar to form simple sentences. Try learning words you find interesting by looking them up in a dictionary such as wiktionary. If you want some guidance try:

The Japanese Swadesh list. A Swadesh list is list of words which are essential to most languages.

Japanese/Vocabulary contains vocabulary organized by topic

1000 Japanese basic words

[edit] Active participants

Active participants in this Learning Group

• Pepperboi February 2007
• Kaegwyn August 2007
• Balloonguy November 2007
• DarkRubySage October 2009