Japanese

Japanese
日本語

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Japanese is a Japonic language spoken mainly in Japan by roughly 125 million total speakers.

This course was created by the Duolingo staff and released on the website version on October 11th, 2017.^[1]

Notes Edit

As of January 2016, Duolingo staff noted that for Japanese:

"The biggest challenge for us is teaching the writing system. Duolingo currently does not have a good way of teaching new character sets, but we’ll be working on that soon", Luis von Ahn (2016) ^[2].

As of the summer 2017, Japanese is available to English speakers on Android and Apple devices, which first teach a few characters then teach simple words employing them. The first words taught are the counting words for one to four i.e. ichi, ni, san, yon.

Input methodsEdit

Main article: Guide to keyboard layouts and input methods

External resourcesEdit

DictionariesEdit

Midori for iPad (paid) (Dictionary,Flashcards,Search and Translate,Lists and Bookmarks,No internet required.
Tangorin online dictionary
Wiktionary
Jisho
Nihongo Master Online Japanese Dictionary (Words and Kanji and Example Sentences)

Grammar referencesEdit

Tae Kim's Guide to Learning Japanese (website, Android app, e-book)
http://wargle.blogspot.com/2010/03/tae-kims-guide-to-japanese-grammar-as.html

PronunciationEdit

Forvo Japanese
Human Japanese
Wiktionary has pronunciation for many Japanese words, in addition to romaji and kana for pronunciation of kanji.

Listening comprehensionEdit

Sazae san videos

Writing practiceEdit

Hiragana and Katakana
Japanese-lesson.com's YouTube channel (Containing two extensive video courses for Hiragana and Katakana)
Practice sheets
https://www.wanikani.com/ (Learn and practice kanji and vocabulary)

Language learning platforms Edit

Elon.io (For learning and practicing grammar & vocabulary, kanji & kana, and for (video) chat with peers)
https://busuu.com (To learn and practice grammar and vocabulary, practice writing and have it graded by native speakers, and to live chat with Japanese speakers)
Lingoci Japanese tutoring via Skype (1-on-1 tutoring with experienced, native Japanese tutors. Cost is $20-$25 per hour. They offer a free trial session. Great for improving your speaking and pronunciation.)
http://en-us.wespeke.com/index.html (Live chat with native speakers of nearly any language)
Nihongo Master (Learn Japanese online with lessons, tools and a big community)

MiscellaneousEdit

Tofugu Sensei (Has a little bit of everything that is Japanese related. High quality.)
Sublearning - Movie subtitle flash card quiz in Japanese and many other languages
Free Japanese Flashcards

References Edit

[0] "Japanese and Korean Surprise!".

[1] ttps://www.quora.com/What-are-the-challenges-of-developing-a-Japanese-course-for-English-speakers-on-Duolingo

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