Learn Basic Japanese
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This site offers a starting point with free Japanese lessons - Hundreds of Japanese Basic Phrases and words.
This page includes an Easy and simple Japanese word list.
What happens when you decide to learn a new language?
You open a textbook, you pay for a language course.
This is probably the worst thing you can do.
Why?
The textbook and classes will spend hours drilling grammar into you.
Will you learn how To Speak the language that way? Probably not, because it's boring…and most people (me included) will quit sooner or later.
What if communicating was more important than grammar?
What if meeting the locals was more important than a perfect accent?
The easy way to become talkative in a language you don't know is to learn a
Basic Japanese Word list.
What good is grammar if you don’t have the vocabulary to use it?
Let’s try this - Browse my
Free Japanese lessons
and concentrate on learning a Japanese word list, so you can understand what’s going on in a Tokyo restaurant, what locals are saying when they point the way to you, and the Basics in shops and Museums.
That way you can start to communicate fast, and get into some adventures off the beaten Tokyo tourism path.
Japanese Basic Phrases Made Simple
- I don't understand Japanese - Nihongo wa wakarimasen
- Where is the……? - wa doko desu ka?
- How much does it cost? - Ikura desu ka?
- See you later - Itte rasshai
- How much is this? - Kore wa ikura desu ka
Japanese Basic Phrases For Traditional Japanese Foods
- Cooked rice - Gohan
- Miso soup - Miso shiru
- Lunch box - Bento
- Alcohol - o-sake
- Green tea - o-cha
- Water - mizu
- Pickles - tsukemono
- Usually said before eating - Itadakimasu
- Do you have an English menu? - Eigo no menyuu wa arimasuka?
- I'll take this, please - Kore kudasai
- What is that? - Sore wa nan desu ka
- Check, please - O-kanjou kudasai
Why Learn Japanese?
If you're planning to visit other areas in Japan besides Tokyo Attractions, you might want to learn basic words and phrases.
That would make it possible to communicate with the locals outside of Tokyo on a daily basis.
Many people are contacting me, asking about
teaching English in Japan.
Well, knowing the language will certainly help secure a job here.
Considering that Japan is the 3rd largest economy in the world there are increasing job opportunities here for foreigners - translators, travel guides and teachers, to name just a few.
By the way - the writing system consists of three methods - Kanji, hiragana and katakana.
There are 46 basic hiragana and katakana characters, and some new combinations too, they can be mastered easily.
Learning kanji is the big challenge. There are almost 2,000 Kanji characters in everyday use.
But as I said before the easy way is to start with a basic Japanese word list.
So don't worry about the writing system at the moment.
Best way to start is with
free Japanese lessons
you'll find on this site.
Read along as I introduce you to many more pages, as well as great tips and first hand information on how to learn Basic Japanese.
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