This is going to be the final post in my Fundamentals of Japanese series. I’m using it to discuss the two last grammar points I feel are important for a basic understanding of the language, but couldn’t fit into the other parts…
Fundamentals of Japanese – Part 5: Speech Levels
June 3, 2012 by 16 Comments
In Part 5 of my Fundamentals of Japanese series, I’ll be covering the characteristics of the language’s different levels of speech…
Fundamentals of Japanese – Part 4: Verbs and Adjectives
May 22, 2012 by 12 Comments
In Part 3 I discussed the very basics of Japanese grammar with particles and the “to be” verb です(desu). Today I’ll be moving up to the next step in grammar fundamentals with the conjugation of Japanese verbs and adjectives…
Fundamentals of Japanese – Part 3: Particles
May 9, 2012 by 21 Comments
Now that I’ve covered the Japanese syllabary and writing systems, in this section I’ll be going over the basics of Japanese sentences. To me, the most fundamental parts of Japanese grammar are particles and the “to be” verb, です(desu), which is what I’ll be discussing here in Part 3…
Fundamentals of Japanese – Part 2: Reading
April 26, 2012 by 17 Comments
Here’s Part 2 of my ongoing Fundamentals of Japanese post series. In Part 1 I went over how to pronounce Japanese and read it using English letters (romaji). Now I’m going to discuss how it’s read using the three Japanese alphabets…
Fundamentals of Japanese – Part 1: Pronunciation
April 14, 2012 by 32 Comments
Welcome to the first installment in a series of posts I’m going to be writing about the fundamentals of the Japanese language. Part 1 will be an introduction to the post series as well as covering an aspect of the language I feel is the very first step one should start with when learning it – pronunciation…