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人物のイラスト/サイトマップ/無料イラスト【みさきのイラスト素材】

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四季や行事の無料イラスト素材、保育・学校のイラスト素材、人物・子供のイラスト

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ナマケモノのナマケもんブログ

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ナマケもんさんのブログ「ナマケモノのナマケもんブログ」です。最近の記事は「おはなし『ハチのハチミツレモン』 （ページ6）」です。

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What is Moekana? Moekana is a set of illustrated flash cards to help you learn the basic Japanese syllabaries, hiragana and katakana. The pack of 56 different Moekana cards feature cute Japanese stylized illustrations that make learning Japane...

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Video collection of sentence patterns : GENKI

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This video collection of sentence patterns is produced based on the grammar items in "Genki: An Integrated Course in Elementary Japanese" published by The Japan Times.

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The exercises have been carefully designed to follow the structure of your coursebook and you will find ample usage of Hiragana to help recognise the kanji through multiple choice and gap-fill exercises, jumble modules and crosswords. Some contain sound and other display pictures.

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Usagi-chan's Genki Resource Page | NIHONGO eな - Portal for Learning Japanese -

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A support site aimed at people using the Japanese language textbook "Genki". You can study "Genki" vocabulary and kanji, so this site is useful for learning and reviewing.

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Self-study Room offers a variety of online materials to support your learning with GENKI textbooks.

No Illegal Uploading, Please!

GENKI Videos　げんきな動画

GENKI Dialogue Videos （げんき会話ビデオ）

Video Clips for Culture Note（Culture Noteのビデオクリップ）
Video clips related to "Culture Note" columns in the Dialogue & Grammar section of GENKI. All scenes were shot in Japan.
(by Elizabeth Armstrong/Eric Faden [Bucknell University])

GENKI Apps　げんきなアプリ

The official GENKI apps are excellent tools for firmly mastering vocabulary, kanji, and conjugation, with the aid of native recordings and fun illustrations

GENKI Drills　げんきなドリル

Sets of cards for studying GENKI are available through Quizlet at the links in the Drills column below.

Note that the audio pronunciations given on Quizlet are computer generated, and thus differ from the human recordings provided for GENKI app cards.

You can watch the Dialogue videos for each lesson by clicking the links in the Videos column on the right.

GENKI 1

GENKI 2

Drills

Videos

Lesson

Vocabulary

Conjugation

Kana / Kanji

Links　リンク集

Please note that some of the following websites are based on the contents of GENKI 2nd Edition.

Genki Kanji Quiz
A website that offers a set of interactive exercises for practicing kanji learned in GENKI. It helps you recognize the kanji through multiple choice and gap-fill exercises, jumble modules, and crosswords. (by Edith Paillat [Victoria University of Wellington])

KanjiAlive
Web-based tool to help Japanese-language learners read and write kanji. It contains a database of 1,235 kanji. Students can easily search for kanji in a certain lesson of GENKI by inputting the lesson number. (by Kanji Alive Team [The University of Chicago])

uPal: Associative Kanji Learning
This website offers essential information on every kanji that appear in the major Japanese language textbooks for elementary level. You can easily access kanji that appear in GENKI I and II, and learn their reading, meaning, stroke order (animations), and relational kanji knowledge. Kanji Matching Quizzes for these kanji are also offered. (by Joji Miwa)

MyKikitori―Practice Your Japanese Listening Skills
A listening practice site that contains original dialogues based on the grammar and vocabulary introduced in GENKI I. Two speeds, natural and slow, are available for each dialogue, and all the dialogues are accompanied by comprehension questions in audio format. (by Aiko Sato [San Francisco State University])

NIHONGO KIKUSASAIZU
36 original short, animated videos, 3 episodes each for Lesson 1 to Lesson 12. Both the Japanese and English transcripts are accessible on the website. There is a link to some interactive listening comprehension exercises. [Created by Nihongo Kikusasaizu Project Team.]

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This page is for learners using GENKI: An Integrated Course in Elementary Japanese. It provides links to videos and other online self-study resources.

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How to write Hiragana with pronunciation

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I started out thinking that beginner classes would be a kanji-free zone.

I thought we'd be totally focussed on speaking as much as possible, and reading and writing would be a homework-only activity for my students.

But, two things happened:

1) Students sometimes need help in class with reading and writing; and

2) It turns out lots of students are really interested in the Japanese writing system.

Which makes sense to me, as the writing system is kind of what got me interested in Japanese in the first place, too!

Anyway, I have a lot of kanji books. And today, I'd like to share some of them with you!
So here are my TOP FIVE KANJI BOOKS, for beginners up to advanced.

1) Kanji Pict-o-Graphix

You've probably already heard me say a hundred times that mnemonics are the best way to learn hiragana and katakana.

(If you haven't...you should go check out my instagram).

And for a lot of people, mnemonic devices can be a great start to learn kanji, too.

Kanji Pict-o-Graphix gives you visual hints for remembering common kanji characters.

The book is arranged thematically, so you have a whole page of kanji with one component (like this page of characters containing the kanji for "sun" 日:

2) Kanji Look and Learn

Like Pict-o-Graphix, Kanji Look and Learn combines visual mnemonics with stories. But whereas Kanji Pict-o-Graphix is more of a fun coffee-table book, this is more of a serious study tool.

As well as stories to help you recognise the shape of kanji characters, you'll also find readings and example vocabulary.

If you've ever used the Genki textbooks, you'll notice that the layout of this is similar to the kanji sections at the back of those books - that's because this is an extension to the series called 'Genki Plus'.

There's a Kanji Look and Learn Workbook, too, if you're feeling super keen :)

3) Basic Kanji Book

No bells and whistles here - the Basic Kanji Book is a comprehensive guide to 500 kanji, arranged by theme. There's plenty of reading practice and quizzes throughout.

It's not going to hold your hand for you and you'll need a dictionary (or a good teacher), but if you're serious about getting out of the beginner stages, this is the book for you.

4) Remembering the Kanji

People who've tried the system suggested by James W. Heisig in his Remembering the Kanji series fall into two camps: they either love it, or they think it's totally stupid.

You won't find a single drawing or pictographic in Heisig's book. Instead he requires the reader to use their imaginative memory to memorise each character. And - here's the controversial bit - he argues that before learning any kanji readings, you should first learn their meanings using an English keyword.

It's not for everyone...but if you think it might be for you, read the first chapter (and its illuminating introduction) for free here.

5) Kanji in Context

When I was studying for the JLPT N1, I came up with a picture in my mind of the kanji practice book I wanted.

I wanted to be given (in hiragana) a vocabulary word I should know, and be tested on my ability to write the kanji from memory.

A couple of years later, I discovered that t he book of my dreams already existed. It's called Kanji in Context, and instead of teaching you kanji in isolation, it presents them in example sentences and phrases - in (you guessed it) context.

So there you have it - my top five kanji books from beginner to advanced! I'd love to know what you think - how do you like to study kanji? And what did I miss?

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I Bought All The Kanji Textbooks So You Don't Have To

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I started out thinking that beginner classes would be a kanji-free zone. I thought we'd be totally focussed on speaking as much as possible, and reading and writing would be a homework-only activity for my students.

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Genki - リソースライブラリ

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Genki - 形容詞・動詞カード

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・WordファイルとPDFファイルの２種類があります。Wordファイルはフォントやサイズを自由にカスタマイズできますが、日本語が使えるコンピュータであることが必要です。日本語が使えないコンピュータの場合は、PDFファイルをダウンロードしてください。 ・Wordファイルでは、HG教科書体を使用しています。このフォントがコンピュータに入っていない場合、代替フォントで表示されます。

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Kanji lists ordered by JLPT-level, Grade or Frequency of use - Kanjicards.org

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Free PDF Kanji cards for download. Sorted lists of Kanji acording to your preferences along with Information for writing your own Kanji cards.

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(学年別漢字配当表, literally "list of kanji by Kyōiku kanji (教育漢字, literally "education kanji"), also known as Gakunenbetsu kanji haitōhyō school year") is a list of 1,006 kanji and associated readings developed and maintained by the Japanese Ministry of Education that prescribes which kanji, and which readings of kanji, Japanese schoolchildren should learn for each year of primary school.

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"Nippon Manju" lyrics transcribed to English for singing along! * r/LADYBABY

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Here is an overview of some websites/apps/books that helped me learn Japanese, as well as some personal experiences I made while studying! Even though I also still have a lot to learn, I hope this video might be helpful for some of you :) And no, I didn't paint one single nail black, I just got my finger crushed by the car's door because I am an idiot.

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Mary and Takeshi used to be two normal high schoolers. Mary, a transfer student from Arizona Daigaku and Takeshi from Sakura Daigaku. Forming an unbreakable bond during their time together in Japan, they rose to stardom and starred together in many different movies... You can own their full collection too for just 1 billion Yen.

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Home

Welcome to JapaneseProfessor.com! This site is a work in progress, but will eventually be a comprehensive learning resource for Japanese learners of all levels.

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Site Overview

The focus of this site is to help you understand how the Japanese language works at a deep level. A lot of what I had learned in my early years of study only really made sense much later on, especially I began to study linguistics in college. My primary goal is to help you reach this level of understanding more quickly by providing a guide to Japanese based the linguistic principles that underlie Japanese grammar and conversation.

More broadly, Japanese Professor is a free portal for all of the information that a Japanese learner might need. When I think I can do better than what others have done, I do it, and for the rest I'll lead you to the best Japanese learning materials I've found elsewhere.

Site updates and articles on various topics of interest to Japanese learners can be found on the blog. You can subscribe through RSS in order to be notified of new content as soon as it becomes available.

The Lessons section is the core of the site, and covers a range of topics from grammar and vocabulary to writing and culturally correct usage, organized into semi-flexible courses. These lessons make an excellent supplement for traditional courses and textbooks, fleshing out information that is often inadequately explained or ignored entirely.

The Reference section includes info-packed standalone pages and collections of site-internal links organized by topic.

I'm also in the process of building a collection of book reviews and links to recommended websites and other resources.

You can use the contact form for feedback on the lessons and the rest of the site. I'm focusing on beginner material at the moment, so I'd especially like to hear from those who are just starting out.

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Having trouble understanding something? Anything I've missed? Please send your feedback using the contact form and help me improve this site. All questions, comments, and corrections are welcome.

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にほんご入門/Introduction to Japanese Language for Nihongo Learning with Speech

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いつでも、どこでも、だれにでも、手軽に、繰り返し学習を支援するために、 1999年に「情報家電から情報玩具へ-Javaを利用した語学個人教授システム」 (共立出版, Bit 31(7), 23-27, 1999-07)を書きましたが、 パソコンに限らず、近年のiPhone, iPad, Androidなどの情報玩具を利用して、 ひらがな、カタカナ、 漢字のなぞり書き練習や手書き練習(tracing and writing practice)が手軽に繰り返しできるようになりました。 なお、筆順アニメーション、手書き文字認識、部首の形から漢字検索などの 電子辞書以上の機能が組み込まれているので、 自律学習(e-Manabix) にも利用できます。

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The J-Sub Experiment is a linguistic research endeavor that helps students learn Japanese through movies, anime, video games, and related media.

Academic Subscription Program 2018-2019

We are currently signing up middle school, high schools, colleges, and universities!

For a limited time, we are giving you access to just some of the resources The J-Sub Experiment has to offer.

Japanese in a nutshell, an introduction to Japanese, its history and linguistic mechanisms.

Our famous text-based runthroughs of anime episodes and video games.

Final Fantasy X Runthrough

A fast-paced runthrough of the critically acclaimed Final Fantasy X.

Total Kanji Runthough

A video-based runthrough of the Common Use Kanji. Part 1 covers stroke order and meaning. Part 2 covers all important readings through vocabulary.

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The J-Sub Experiment is a linguistic research endeavor that helps students learn Japanese through movies, anime, video games, and related media. We are currently signing up middle school, high schools, colleges, and universities! For a limited time, we are giving you access to just some of the resources The J-Sub Experiment has to offer.

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Bite-size, Easy-to-learn, Japanese language !

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Quick Links [Index]

Helpful App to Learn Japanese
* Easy Learn Japanese Android & IOS App
Recommended Self-learning Textbook
* TRY!
* Shin Nihongo 500 mon
Common Staple Textbook
* Genki
* Minna no Nihongo
Recommended Dictionary
* Grammar Dictionary
* Electric Dictionary (Denshi Jisho)
Books for Listening & Conversational Purpose
* Shadowing
* Yasashii Nihongo
Books for Beginner's Reading Practice
* Ghibli's Picture Book
* Easy Manga
* Bilingual Comic

Resourceful Android & IOS App to learn Japanese

Try Series [Recommended]

While most course will recommend you to use/buy the genki & minna no nihongo series, we believe that this book is more cost effective and better for self-learning. This is because the book is focusing in grammar pattern, one at a time and give you enough short English explanations that help you to understand the pattern you're currently learning about. But this book doesn't cover in-depth explanation about the pattern, in some case, you might need supplementary grammar dictionaries at the beginning to help you. Click to see more detailed review.

Becareful though since this series are also provided in Thai & Chinese. These links below are links for English version.

Shin 500 Mon JLPT Series [Recommended]

This book is filled with questions categorized into 3 section (kanji,vocabulary and grammar). It is best used with Click to see more detailed review.

Recommended Dictionaries

Denshi Jisho (Japanese Electronic Dictionary)

This is a very helpful tool when you want to start increasing your vocabularies by reading manga or playing games. Most manga and games have very few furigana, and you will have trouble identifying the kanji. You can draw the unknown character on the denshi jisho to identify them easily. Not all denshi jisho worth the price. The best & only one you need is the one with Kenkyusha Japanese - English dictionary. Click here to read more details. Or here to learn how to use it.

Current cheapest model you can easily find is the XD-K9800. Or if you're feeling lucky, try to search for a used XD-U9800 or XD-D9800, you might get a lower price. The recent model is the XD-G9800

Common Japanese Staple Textbook

Genki & Minna no Nihongo are two major staple textbook used in a lot of Japanese courses.

Books for Listening & Conversational Japanese

You can live in Japan without able to read hard Japanese sentence. If you want to focus on studying conversational Japanese, be sure to get The First Japanese Textbook for Foreigner in English, then move on to Shadowing series. Use Yasashii no Nihongo book when you're ready to hone your listening skill. Click for more information about learning for conversational purpose.

Books for Japanese Beginner's Reading Practice

Note that you need to have at least basic knowledge about Japanese grammar before starting to use these book to practice. Understanding Basic Japanese Grammar is a great book if you just want to read one book before you start jumping into reading manga / children books.
As a beginner, you want to read something which equipped with furigana, use everyday language with as little made up word as possible (most fantasy manga will be hard to read). Children books are your best bet. One of the best children book series is Ghibli's picture book. They are very thick (over 150 pages) and really worth the price. If you prefer manga though, you can try easy to read manga such as >Bilingual books are for intermediate learner since they don't have furigana. You will need electronic dictionary to help you read.

Ghibli's Movie Picture Book

Big picture book with over 150 pages with scene from the original movie. Really worth the price. Especially if you're a fan of Ghibli's! If you plan just to buy one book for Beginner's Japanese reading practice, get one of these books 😀 This is also a great book as a gift for friend.

These books use elementary level kanji and aided with furigana so you can search for the kanji's meaning on dictionary easily. Check out the detailed review here.

Easy to read Manga for Beginners

If you just started to learn Japanese, you can't simply pick any manga to learn. In fact, most manga will not be a good learning material. Click to read more about this.

If you want to use manga as your reading practice material, you can pick these mangas below. They are all equipped with furigana and have simple everyday conversational sentences with funny & adorable characters!

Bilingual Manga for Reading Comprehension Practice

This bilingual manga is made for Japanese people who wants to learn English. But it can also be used other way around. For beginners though, easy manga equipped with furigana is better since this bilingual book isn't equipped with furigana. To read the kanji you will require a denshi jisho to help you.

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Have you ever wondered what are the letters of the Japanese alphabet? Sure you've heard the stories, the legends? About how there are more characters in the Japanese alphabet than there are good anime? Well, sadly, that's true. The Japanese alphabet has not dozens, nor hundreds, but thousands of letters! So many letters they need more than one single alphabet to organize them all!

To begin with, the three alphabets used in the Japanese language are:

hiragana ひらがな

katakana カタカナ

kanji 漢字 (this one isn't technically an alphabet, it's a set of characters, but call it an alphabet if you want, nobody's gonna blame you)

Above, we have the names of the three alphabets written with themselves, and the romaji ローマ字 showing how to read them for those who can't read Japanese. Now, let's see the words for the names of all the three alphabets written in each of all the three alphabets.

hiragana ひらがな / ヒラガナ / 平仮名

katakana かたかな / カタカナ / 片仮名

kanji かんじ / カンジ / 漢字

I bet you're thinking, "wait a second, if you can write anything in either alphabet why have three of them to begin with?" Well, they happen to be used for different things.

For example, katakana is often used for loan words an sounds, hiragana for grammatical particles and simple words, and kanji for normal Japanese words. Do note that you can't write anything in Japanese with kanji, but you can write anything in Japanese with hiragana and katakana.

The Letters, Symbols and Shenanigans

Hiragana and Katakana Chart

Small Kana, ぁぇぃぉぅ

Emphasis Mark, bouten 傍点, ・｀

Difference Between Hiragana and Katakana

ikeeeee!!! イケぇぇぇー！！！
Go!!!

bukkorosu. ブッ殺す
I'll kill you.

The katakana is also commonly used in onomatopoeic words. Words that describe the sound of something. Sound effects. And the Japanese language is literally filled to the brim with sound effects.

dokidoki suru ドキドキする
Heart beating quickly. (literally)
I'm in love. I'm excited. Etc.

gogogogo ゴゴゴゴ
Sound effect for some abominable presence / character.
(often shows up in the anime JoJo)

zawa... zawa...ザワザワ
Sound effect for an anxious situation.
(often shows up in the anime Kaiji)

Seriously, wakuwaku ワクワク is somehow the sound of getting excited for something, and pakupaku パクパク the sound of something opening and closing, like a mouth eating, for example. (hence why Pacman, who does this to eat pellets, is called pakuman パクマン)

Besides these uses, katakana is also commonly found in dictionaries to spell out how a kanji should be read. And, also, how names of people and characters which are written in kanji should be read. (see Furigana about that). This brings us to our final Japanese alphabet.

Kanji

The kanji is literally the tallest language barrier for people learning Japanese to read manga... or to read anything else, for that matter.

Together, the 50-something kana of hiragana and katakana total 100-something kana. Over 3 times our little kawaii latin-alphabet of 26 letters. But the deal is, these 100 symbols for syllables are kindergarten level of alphabet.

The kanji, on the other side, has so many letters, or rather, ideograms, that any Japanese student has to learn them from first grade in middle-school all the way to their last year in highschool and that's just for the 2000 basic kanji.

Yeah, I said 2000 basic kanji.

Jouyou Kanji

The jouyou kanji 常用漢字, a.k.a. "everyday kanji," are a set of 2000-something kanji the Japanese government says are found frequently every day everywhere in Japan.

Besides these 2000 kanji, there are a number of other kanji which are found often in newspapers, and books, etc. all the time. So just knowing these 2000 kanji doesn't mean you can read everything, it means you can read most things.

For example, the kanji found in animals names, such as hebi 蛇, meaning "serpent," is not something you see every day. Most of the time words like hebi have to be written with hiragana, like へび, or even katakana, like ヘビ, because, if written with kanji only, nobody would be able to read it!

What I'm trying to say, is, not even the Japanese people themselves know all of the kanji. And even those basic kanji they do know how to read, they may not be able handwrite them, because they are so difficult to remember.

Words vs. Kanji

But what are kanji, exactly?

Well, they are not words.

A kanji is a letter that has a certain meaning. Or multiple meanings. And a certain reading, a way to read it, that can be one syllable... or more syllables, or, perhaps, more than one reading. Well, anyway, you get it, it kinda varies.

Besides that, Japanese words may have multiple kanji in it. A Japanese word is... a word. It has its own meaning and a way to say it. So, basically, a word with one kanji has a meaning closely related to that kanji, but a word with two kanji would have a mixed meaning and a mixed reading.

Let's see some examples.

otoko 男
Man.

danshi 男子
Boy.

ko 子
Someone's child.
Child of something. (of an animal, of a city, etc.)

koyubi 子指
Little finger.
Pinky finger.

sasu 指す
To point (at something)

As you can see, the kanji kind of tell what the word is about... most of the time. If you have otoko 男, which is a man, and ko 子, which is a child, then you have danshi 男子, which would be a boy. However, otoko no ko 男の子 and shounen 少年 are synonyms with danshi, they have the same meaning, "boy".

A common thing in Japanese has that's like synonyms are homonyms. Two words pronounced identically but written differently. Let me show you.

shibou 死亡
Death.

shibou 志望
Hope.

kanji 漢字
Chinese characters.
(note:kanji actually come from the Chinese hanzi, and hiragana and katakana were made up from the kanji)

kanji 感じ
Feeling.

See? The first shibou written with the kanji for death itself, 死, and the one for losing something, 亡, means "death." But the other shibou, written with kanji related to hope, means "hope."

This sort of mess is the reason why you shouldn't even bother learning the kanji by themselves. They make no sense without a context, without a word, and you'd just be hitting your head against a wall when you see them used in actual words.

Ateji Words

An extreme example is the ateji 当て字 word mechakucha 目茶苦茶.

An ateji word is a word which shouldn't have kanji, but then someone picked random kanji whose reading matched the reading of the word and assigned to it. Take a look:

me 目
Eye. (the body part)

mokuteki 目的
Objective.

cha 茶
Tea.

chairo 茶色
Brown. (tea color)

kutsuu 苦痛
Pain. (both kanji mean pain)

kurushii 苦しい
Painful.

So here we got, in mechakucha 目茶苦茶, kanji that range from eye/target, to tea, to pain and... with that... we can conclude... it means... uh... wait, we got the tea kanji twice.

This is what an ateji word is. The culmination of kanji evil. By the way, mechakucha is like a slang which means something is "extremely" so. Like:

kanji wa mechakucha muzukashii! 感じは目茶苦茶難しい！
Kanji is extremely difficult!

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Japanese Alphabet: Kanji, Hiragana, Katakana

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Have you ever wondered what are the letters of the Japanese alphabet? Sure you've heard the stories, the legends? About how there are more characters in the Japanese alphabet than there are good anime? Well, sadly, that's true. The Japanese alphabet has not dozens, nor hundreds, but thousands of letters!

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how to say talk to you later in japanese

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#6 Stop saying "Sayonara" - How to say "Bye" ┃NATIVE WAY

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Did a textbook teach you to say "SAYONARA"? Stop using it! If you say "sayonara" to a Japanese person, they'll smile and nod but it's still weird. And they won't let you know that. If you want to sound NATIVE, watch this lesson.

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Japanese greetings you won't learn in a textbook! (Lesson #3)

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Follow me on Instagram! I post in both English & Japanese! http://instagram.com/bilingirl_chika I'm also on twitter :) twitter: http://twitter.com/Japanagos Please keep in mind that Japan has a ton of different dialects so there are major regional differences. The phrases/words I teach are what we call "hyoujungo" standard Japanese that most people from Tokyo speak and that everyone across Japan understands.

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Learn Kanji Using Radicals | KANJIDAMAGE

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An official KanjiDamage deck is now available for Anki , a popular flashcard program. Many thanks to miwuc, KD user and great coder! This KanjiDamage deck contains all of KD's kanji plus stroke order diagrams. Please check it out here!

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Welcome to Kanji alive, a web application ( https://app.kanjialive.com) designed to help Japanese language students of all levels learn to read and write kanji.

Kanji alive is a resource for learning kanji, dedicated to helping you open the door to the fascinating characters that form the written Japanese language. All of the content in the application was created and reviewed with painstaking attention to detail by experienced Japanese instructors in order to help you best study, practice and retain kanji.

Our Japanese language data and media files (images, sounds, animations, and fonts) are freely available to anyone for re-use under a Creative Commons license. In addition, developers can draw on our data for their applications from our free public API and access the source code and contribute improvements to the Kanji alive web application on GitHub.

Key Features of Kanji alive

Easily search for in Japanese, romaji or English, by meaning, pronunciation, stroke number or different aspects of a kanji's radical. You can also search for kanji by lesson in popular textbooks (e.g. Genki), by Grade level or study list (e.g. AP Exam). Multiple search terms can even be combined together and shared with others. Read more or watch a demo video.

View the kanji in your search results sorted by stroke number or else grouped together first by radical or kanji stroke number and then sorted again by the canonical order of their radicals. This will help you understand how kanji are related to radicals and provides a clear structure for even large sets of kanji in your search results. Read more or watch a demo video.

To help you write kanji correctly, all our kanji animations are hand-written in the style experienced in common, daily use - with a regular pen, not a calligraphic brush or generated by a computer. The model animations can be paused and reviewed at any point, stroke by stroke, via their stroke order diagrams or by using the animation playback controls. Read more or watch a demo video.

Learn how a radical lends meaning to its kanji. View an image of each kanji's radical, its name, meaning, stroke number, historical derivation, and (for important radicals) its position in the kanji. Read more or watch a demo video.

Next to each kanji you will find vivid mnemonic hints carefully crafted to help you associate the components of a kanji to its meaning. Read more or watch a demo video.

See and hear how the kanji you are learning are used in context in up to twelve carefully selected example words, together with audio clips of their pronunciations by native male and female speakers. Read more or watch a demo video.

Compare the hand-written kanji animations to model kanji typefaces in several characteristic and widely used Japanese styles: Kyokashotai, Mincho, Gothic, and Maru. You can also view each kanji in the historical Tensho script, the calligraphic Gyosho script, the decorative, Endo-period Kanteiryu script, and in Suzumushi, a playful, award-winning contemporary typeface. Read more or watch a demo video.

Discover additional contexts and meanings for each kanji and more example sentences via a custom web link to Kenkyusha's online Luminous dictionary or by using the kanji reference numbers for the Classic Nelson and dictionaries. Read more or watch a demo video.

Kanji alive is very easy to use. To quickly familiarize you with the Kanji alive web app ( https://app.kanjialive.com) we have prepared a User Guide, several short demo videos and a handy Quick Reference guide in the app itself. Any of these resources can be used to learn how to use Kanji alive. Japanese language instructors may also wish to read our Notes for Instructors which explain our pedagogic principles and design decisions.

Finally, especially for beginners, we have prepared two online resources which cover the history of kanji, stroke order basics, and radicals. These are the Introduction to Kanji and the 214 traditional kanji radicals and their variants. We encourage anyone who has just begun to study kanji to review these documents carefully before using Kanji alive in earnest.

Thank you for your interest in Kanji alive! Please don't hesitate to get in touch if you have any questions or comments.
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Kanji alive: A free study tool for reading and writing kanji

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Kanji alive is a resource for learning kanji, dedicated to helping you open the door to the fascinating characters that form the written Japanese language

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KanjiSheets - Custom Kanji tracing/handwriting sheets!

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KanjiSheets© is a powerful tracing sheet creation tool. It lets you build custom tracing sheets quickly and easily. Just search by kanji definitions and click away at the results to add the kanji. Or you can type the kanji directly into the selection grid.

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Kanji, kana, and furigana-matched to your specific knowledge

Perhaps the most challenging aspect of learning to read Japanese is the chicken-and-egg problem of kanji. Before you've reached a critical mass of knowledge, it's easy to feel swamped by all the characters you don't yet know.

Satori Reader solves this by dynamically choosing to show you words in kanji, kana, or kanji with furigana (readings) based on your knowledge and preferences. This allows you to challenge yourself for words whose kanji you should know but not get bogged down by the kanji you haven't yet learned. Or, have Satori Reader show the kanji as written but include furigana over words that contain characters you don't know. Or show everything in kana. It's completely customizable and you can try different settings instantly.

How does this work? In the example below, we've set up three imaginary users, each with a different kanji knowledge. Pick a user, then try different display preferences and watch how the text changes in response.

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Perhaps the most challenging aspect of learning to read Japanese is the chicken-and-egg problem of kanji. Before you've reached a critical mass of knowledge, it's easy to feel swamped by all the characters you don't yet know. Satori Reader solves this by dynamically choosing to show you words in kanji, kana, or kanji with furigana (readings) based on your knowledge and preferences.

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「ＮＥＷＳ」は，日本語教育に関する教材、カリキュラム、報告書、論文、施策資料等を横断的に検索る情報検索サイトです。このサイトは，日本語教育機関が持っている日本語教育コンテンツの共有化と活用を促すことを目的に，文化庁が提供しています。

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Genki - Syllabus of the Dialogue and Grammar Section(J)

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Syllabus of the Dialogue and Grammar Section(J) -