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Student Quickstart

This site is made to be a place where Japanese language students, teachers and other people interested in language exchange can meet. The site is not constructed to replace traditional classes or books, but to be a complement. You can take a minute to explore, from your home or office space while refreshing your language skills. We in the Study Japanese team would like you to have fun here, and at the same time learn more of the intriguing Japanese language.

This site is free, built upon voluntary contributions. There is always something you can learn from others, and there is always something you can contribute. So please do not hesitate to interact with other members, for instance in the Nihongo Forum .

Quick start

Here are a few tips for you to get started right away!

For absolute beginners...

Do the Japanese characters look strange (like these: 日本語)? Then learn more about Japanese character support for your computer.
just go to the lessons section to the left and begin with Lesson 1 - Greetings. Look up words using the dictionary on the right side while studying.
Or go to the Flash Card Trainer and improve your vocabulary using glossary sets from our lessons as well as from known text books.

For everybody ...

For logged in members, the Flash Card Trainer will remember your results, and you will also be able to use the Nihongo Forum. Nihongo (日本語) means "Japanese Language" in Japanese.
The dictionary and kanji lookup on the right hand side of the page will follow you through the site. You can always use it without the risk of losing what you were currently doing.

How to Study Japanese

There is no formula or trick for how to succeed in Japanese language studies. We just believe that the most important thing is to have fun while you are doing it.

You can study in your own pace, learning a little by little. The site is built so that you can read lessons either from this site or from your favorite book, and then use the Flash Card Trainer to drill the vocabulary you would like to learn.

If there are vocabulary words missing in the trainer, it is easy to add your own folders with flashcards. You are also able to contribute these to others for their studies and for them to review your contributions.

If there's anything else you would like to see on the site, do not hesitate to contact us. You can do so either using the email address at the bottom of each page, or by writing a message in the forum.

Looking forward to seeing you on the site.

よろしく　おねがいします　(Yoroshiku onegaishimasu).

Johan,
on behalf of the StudyJapanese Team

Comments (10)

Jessica, hajimemashite (hello, when meeting someone for the first time). Everything you will need to get started is introduced in the lessons linked to on the left hand side of the Lessons page. The Language Reference section is intended mainly for people who have already gone through most of the beginner lessons. You may want to look at the lessons on pronunciation while reading through the beginner lessons; you can look at the introductory lessons on the writing system at any time.

sorry. um... should i begin to study with the language reference first or go strait to the lessons? plze respond thnx :D.

I'll extract all the information! Hajimemashite everybody!

I have been using this site for 1 hour now, and I must say I love it. Keep it up!

I am currently living in Japan. When I came, I had ZERO Japanese under my belt. For the three months I have been here, I have been using this site in conjunction with Japanese for Busy People. Now, I can get my way through a simple conversation and read hiragana and katakana. I owe a lot of my knowledge to this site. THANK YOU! :D

I suggest that you look at the lessons on "Writing in Japanese" listed on the Lessons page (there is a link to the Lessons page in the Main Menu in the upper left hand corner of the web page). These will give you an overview of how the three kinds of symbols are used.

For questions not directly related to the content of one of these pages, it is better to post the question in the forum, so that other people will be more likely to see the question and answer.

Japanese are three types of writting. I want to know when will we use Haragana or Katakana or Kenji.

I think this is a great website. I have a lot to learn about the Japanese language and cant wait 2 start understanding speech better. thank all of you here at studyjapanese.org.

Tomlin-san, hajimemashite.
If you look on the Lessons page, you will find pages with hiragana and katakana charts listed under Writing in Japanese (W102 and W103). There is also a section entitled Pronunciation with sound files for each of the syllables.

I use another website for what i am about to explain but I would just like to inform that I cannot find any hiragana character charts katakana charter charts or kanji charts here i use about.com but I was wondering if i justy over look it or is it not here and if so can it be added

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