Yamasa Online J-Class http://www.yamasa.or......index.html
Learn Japanese with the Online Center for Japanese Studies, Japan's leading distance learning JSL programs
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WebLab's Links http://pweb.sophia.a......lab-j.html
Select an Option Conversation Dictionaries Grammar Kana And Kanji Listening Pronunciation Quizzes Reading
Various Skills Vocabulary Writing Resources
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Verbs http://www.sf.airnet....../verb.html
Japanese verbs are divided into two groups with different inflection styles. One group is called the Group I verbs, the -u verbs, the Godan verbs, the consonant verbs, and the strong verbs.
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Verb Conjugation Chart http://www.as.ua.edu......gation.htm
"Direct style" is a term made up by an American linguist. It is a useful term to refer to when discussing grammar. Words (nouns, verbs or adjectives) in direct style are words in dictionary form or any conjugation other than masu forms. You can think of "direct" style as speaking without masu forms, which is
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Various Topics on Japanese http://www.honco.net/japanese/index.html
Some languages can be written in only 26 characters, while others require several thousand characters for everyday purposes. Languages of the first type are easy to automate; not so the latter.
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Topic and Focus http://www.sf.airnet......focus.html
The topic and the focus are concepts commonly found in human languages. Topics are old information, which you have already talked about in a conversation. Focuses are new information, which is often the key of an answer to a question.
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Time Words Chart http://www.as.ua.edu......ewords.htm
All time words listed in an easy to see chart.
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The BEST Grammar Site http://www.guidetoja......rames.html
The problem with conventional textbooks is that they often have the following goals. They want readers to be able to use functional and polite Japanese as quickly as possible. They dont want to scare readers away with terrifying Japanese script and Chinese characters.
They want to teach you how to say English phrases in Japanese.
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TE Form http://www.as.ua.edu......_notes.htm
GREAT Te form explanation. Splendid. Simply brilliant.
て (Gerund) Form of Verbs
Why do verbs need to be in te form?
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te aru / te oku http://homepage3.nif......on-e33.htm
The difference in the troublesome pair of tearu and teoku explained.
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Some Things to Remember http://www.griffith.......opics.html
Grammatically, one of the most misunderstood Japanese words by basic learners may be 「すき」. 「すき」is believed to be an equivalent verb of the English "to like".
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Sentence Patterns http://www.amazon.co......e&n=283155
Amazon.com: Books: A Dictionary of Basic Japanese Sentence Patterns (Kodansha Dictionary) by Naoko Chino
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sci.lang.japan Verb Info http://www.sljfaq.or......tive_verbs
Japanese has a large variety of related pairs of transitive (take a direct object) and intransitive (do not take a direct object) verbs, such as hajimaru (to begin) and hajimeru (to begin). For example,
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Schaums Grammar http://www.amazon.co......e&n=283155
Amazon.com: Books: Schaums Outline of Japanese Grammar by Keiko Uesawa Chevray,Tomiko Kuwahira
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Sakura Exercises http://www.arts.mona....../home.html
This site is intended for use by beginning level students of Japanese at Berwick Campus of Monash University in Australia. However, it is also available for general use.
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Relative Clause http://www.sf.airnet......lause.html
A relative clause has a main noun and an explanatory phrase that are combined in a grammatical way, and it has a base structure. For instance...
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Quick & Dirty Japanese http://www.csse.mona......adgtj.html
The Quick and Dirty Guide to Japanese is a canonical classic of the Internet community. Posted years ago on the sci.lang.japan newsgroup, this guide appears in a multitude of pages written by folks such as myself, devoted to the learning of the Japanese language.
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Question Markers http://www.sf.airnet......stion.html
You can say "It is cold today?" in English by simply raising tone at the end of the sentence, so I think this way of making questions is easy to understand. There is an exception, though.
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PDF Downloads http://www.japaned.com/newDownloads.html
Samples for learning Japanese from Japaned Ltd. and Paul Knight
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Particles & Patterns http://users.tmok.co......rvpat.html
Sentence patterns are often referred to in discussing language learning. Once one manages to get an ability to understand and...
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