Japanese 101
Well, if you're familiar with Japanese, getting to know Japanese can be easy. I learned from it during my trip at the Japanese Canadian Cultural Ctr. in 2004 when I was in Gr. 5.
The Japanese language is written with a combination of three scripts: Chinese characters called kanji (漢字), and two syllabic scripts made up of modified Chinese characters, hiragana (ひらがな or 平仮名) and katakana (カタカナ or 片仮名). The Latin alphabet, rōmaji (ローマ字), is also often used in modern Japanese, especially for company names and logos, advertising, and when entering Japanese text into a computer. Arabic numerals are generally used for numbers, but traditional Sino-Japanese numerals are also commonplace.
Japanese vocabulary has been heavily influenced by loanwords from other languages. A vast number of words were borrowed from Chinese, or created from Chinese models, over a period of at least 1,500 years. Since the late 19th century, Japanese has borrowed a considerable number of words from Indo-European languages, primarily English. Because of the special trade relationship between Japan and first Portugal in the 16th century, and then mainly the Netherlands in the 17th century, Portuguese and Dutch have also been influential.
If I have time, I will post as soon as possible when time is available. For now, I will post a few lessons.
Click on the Lessons below:
Lesson 2: Politeness
Lesson 3: Verbs and Adverbs
Lesson 4: Adjectives
Lesson 5: Particles
Lesson 6: Nouns and Pronouns
Lesson 7: Onomatopoeia
Lesson 8: Interrogative
Lesson 9: Word Order
Lesson 10: Review
All material is credited from Wikipedia and FreeJapaneseLessons.com