The Japanese language has three types of characters: Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji. Hiragana and Katakana are phonetic symbols, each representing one syllable while Kanji is ideogram, each stand ...

Hiragana Flashcards (For printing out on Avery 5371 Business Cards.) This website was co-developed by Andrea Shea (ashea@csus.edu) and Professor Masuyama (kmasuyama@csus.edu) at Sacramento State.

Located in Kansai, Nara is considered to be the oldest city in Japan. It was the country's first permanent capital and played ...

This needs to be set to Universal Alphabet (UTF-8) or Unicode (UTF-8). go to System Preferences click on the International icon click on the Input Menu tab click on theことえり box you should now be able ...

10 revealing facts about Japanese. Get your head around tongue twisters and jokes. It's also available in Japanese with audio.

The Chinese script is very well suited to the nature of the Chinese language, but not so wonderful for writing languages with more complex grammatical systems, like Japanese and Korean. Korea is ...

The letters were written with a brush in a cursive style, using the traditional forms of Chinese characters (Kyujitai), as well as Japanese hiragana and katakana characters. Kim said he believes ...

Effective writing is readable — that is, clear, accurate, and concise. When you are writing a paper, try to get your ideas across in such a way that the audience will understand them ...

KURASHIKI, Okayama Prefecture--Japanese calligrapher Keiichi ... notebook consists of 10 chapters to improve hiragana, katakana and kanji writing skills. Each chapter requires the reader to ...

The use of kanji characters (Chinese characters used in Japanese writing) in names adds layers of meaning and symbolism, as each kanji has a unique interpretation. Modern parents also have the option ...

This course provides students with introductory level proficiency in Japanese listening, speaking, reading and writing skills. Students learn romanised script, the two phonetic scripts (hiragana and ...