Several Categories of Vocabulary http://www.learn-jap......ndexv.html
Adjectives, Animals, Body Parts, Bugs, Buildings, Clothes, Colors, Counters, Days of the Week, Family, Food, Free Time, Health Problems
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Useful Phrases & Vocab http://www.nihongoweb.com/study.html
Numbers, Kanji, Clothing, Body Parts, Phrases, Dialogues
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Vocabulary for Anime http://victorian.for....../part3.htm
Here is a very short dictionary that I have put together for any fanfic author who wants to use Japanese words in a story.
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JLPT Vocabulary http://www.manythings.org/japanese/jlpt/
Japanese Language Proficiency Test Vocabulary Lists. All four levels included.
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Long List of Vocabulary http://www.thejapane......p?cat_id=7
Learn Japanese for free: Explore the fun side of the Japanese language. Study kanji, JLPT prep, grammar, culture, and much more all FREE!
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Non-English Origin Katakana Words http://www.jref.com/......ords.shtml
The Japanese language is a very hybrid language. Roughly half of words in Japanese originally come from Chinese (most kanji compounds).
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Words with Multiple Meanings http://www.jref.com/......ions.shtml
Japanese language is often called "vague". There are many reasons for that, such as the usual omission of the subject, the fact that most words have one or several homonyms...
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Cultural Expressions http://www.jref.com/......ons1.shtml
Anybody having learned a foreign language will know that not all words and expressions inevitably have a translation.
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Useful Expressions & Common Phrases http://www.jref.com/......ases.shtml
Terms particular to Japanese, with multiple translations in English, and Useful and common Japanese phrases.
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Sushi Vocabulary http://www.bento.com/sushivoc.html
bento.com presents Sushi Vocabulary with pictures and a glossary of Japanese sushi terms to help you figure out just what you're ordering in a sushi bar.
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Shorinji Kempo Vocabulary http://www.ecs.soton....../vocab.htm
This page lists most of the Japanese words you may come across in Shorinji Kempo, at least up until Shodan. Words are listed by category, there is also an alphabetical listing.
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Language Guide Vocab http://www.languageguide.org/nihongo/
A nice site that uses pictures and provides kanji, hiragana, and meanings for several vocabulary words.
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Keitai Access http://tangotown.jp/tangotown/
The TangoTown PhraseBook contains over 60 useful categories and over 4000 phrases. The PhraseBook includes phrases for everyday use related to topics such as greetings, shopping...
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Plants Vocabulary http://www.sf.airnet......plant.html
Note: Japanese pears are quite different from Western pears. They look like apples, and they are much more juicier than Western pears. You should peel it before you eat because the peel is not tasty.
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Space, Time, Direction Vocabulary http://www.sf.airnet......etime.html
I have written that every noun in a Japanese sentence is marked by a postposition, but temporal nouns, which stand for time relative to now, are the exceptions. You don't...
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Pronouns http://www.sf.airnet......onoun.html
You might think learning pronouns after learning verbs and adjectives is strange, because many language courses begin with the pronouns. But...
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Body Parts http://www.sf.airnet......parts.html
For your interest: In Japanese culture, the eyes are the most important part of the face. Japanese has many proverbs about eyes, and one of them says "the eye talks as much as the mouth does"...
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Family http://www.sf.airnet......amily.html
Japanese kinship terms have two categories: reference terms and address terms. The latter is used to call your family without using their name, like the English words dad and mom. Kinship reference terms are never used to call them directly.
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Colors http://www.sf.airnet......color.html
First of all, please note that the colors you see on your computer screen are highly dependent on your particular system. Different systems often display different colors. The color files used here are adjusted for my system.
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Animals http://www.sf.airnet......brate.html
You might have heard of the Chinese zodiac. Each year is associated to one of the twelve animals in Chinese custom, and it is used mainly for fortune-telling. Japanese people also know the twelve animals, whether they believe fortune-telling or not.
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