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Last major update: August 22, 2000
Last minor update: August 27, 2000

Created by TAKASUGI Shinji (surname first - Japanese way)
The original address is http://www.sf.airnet.ne.jp/~ts/japanese/index.html.

The Java applet to draw strokes created on August 20 has a bug, and it cannot draw voiced sound mark correctly. Download the latest applet.

Teach Yourself Japanese message board is now open.

1. Introduction
- 1.1. Introduction to Japanese
- 1.2. Phonemes and pronunciations
- 1.3. Grammatical terms
2. Standard hiragana
- 2.1. Hiragana for vowels
- 2.2. Hiragana for /k/, /g/ + vowels
- 2.3. Hiragana for /s/, /z/ + vowels
- 2.4. Hiragana for /t/, /d/ + vowels
- 2.5. Hiragana for /n/ + vowels
- 2.6. Hiragana for /h/, /b/, /p/ + vowels
- 2.7. Hiragana for /m/ + vowels
- 2.8. Hiragana for /y/ + vowels
- 2.9. Hiragana for /r/ + vowels
- 2.10. Hiragana for /w/ + vowels
- 2.11. Hiragana for /N/, /Q/, long vowel mark
3. Double hiragana
- 3.1. Double hiragana for consonants + /y/ + vowels
- 3.2. Double hiragana used only for imported words
4. Other kana information
- 4.1. Romanization
- 4.2. Hiragana table
- 4.3. Hiragana shapes
- 4.4. Katakana table
- 4.5. Katakana shapes
- 4.6. Punctuation
- 4.7. Java program to memorize kana
- 4.8. Java program to display kana
- 4.9. Java program to draw hiragana strokes
- 4.10. Java program to draw katakana strokes
- 4.11. Java game of hiragana and katakana
5. Numbers
- 5.1. Small numbers
- 5.2. Large numbers
- 5.3. Counters
- 5.4. Java program to display numbers
- 5.5. The months and the days
6. Greetings
7. Basic grammar
- 7.1. Cases and postpositions
- 7.2. Topics and focuses
- 7.3. Verbs
- 7.4. Copula
- 7.5. Adjectives
- 7.6. Relative clauses
- 7.7. Negative forms
- 7.8. Java program to display inflections
- 7.9. Emotion markers
- 7.10. Questions
8. Vocabulary
- 8.1. Pronouns
- 8.2. Demonstratives
- 8.3. Body parts
- 8.4. Family
- 8.5. Colors
- 8.6. Space-time
- 8.7. Vertebrates
- 8.8. Invertebrates
- 8.9. Plants
9. Dialogues
- 9.1. Dialogue 1
- 9.2. Dialogue 2

The ZIP packages of the Teach Yourself Japanese site are here:

File	Size	Contents	Last update
japanese0827.zip	230KB	HTML files, Java applets	August 27, 2000
hiragana0722.zip	174KB	GIF files for hiragana	July 22, 2000
katakana0722.zip	107KB	GIF files for katakana	July 22, 2000
audio0420.zip	352KB	Audio files	April 20, 1998

Download these files and use UNZIP to get the whole package of this site.
Install all of the files into the same directory to see them properly. The base HTML file will be install_directory/japanese/index.html .

Teach Yourself Japanese message board - You can ask a question here.

The Gate of Japanese - You can see Japanese web sites without having Japanese fonts.

Links:

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	This site is selected in Yahoo!'s directory of Social Science - Linguistics and Human Languages - Languages - Specific Languages - Japanese - Lessons and Tutorials Online.

	This site is selected as a featured site in StudyWeb as one of the best educational resources on the web.

Jim Breen's Japanese Page - An online dictionary is available.
Steve Fylypchuk's homepage - You can study kanji here. It also has some essays about Japan written in English.
Gateway to Japan - Foreign Languages and Literature, St. Cloud State University
Nihon-no-Kotowaza - Japanese idioms and proverbs.
Nihongo: Japanese Language - includes numeral classifiers, American/Japanese higher numbers, Nihongo notes index
Otake Japanese Calligraphy - selected Kanji characters.
Shodouka - View Japanese WWW pages on any graphical browser with this service.
Travelers' Japanese with Voice
Using Japanese on Internet - Contains various resources, links and guides to support 'using Japanese on Internet
FAQ - Alternative sci.lang.japan
FAQ - sci.lang.japan - From the newsgroup about the Japanese language.
The Japan FAQ: Know Before You Go - lots of important information for anyone visiting or relocating to Japan.
k.tok's home page - Japanese customs, etc.
Human Japanese - a Japanese learning program with network supports
Find Tutorials - a collection of online tutorial courses
Japanisation FAQ for computers running Western Windows - helps you display and input Japanese characters on a Western Windows system.

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