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Online Japanese Lessons

Beginner Lesson #106 - Young Entrepreneur
by JapanesePod101.com
11 Mar 2010 at 11:30am
Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! Today, join Honda-san, Yamada-san, and Jun-san in the classroom during the final countdown before the day’s shiken begins. A couple of the students forgot their enpitsu, but Honda-san has plenty! Today is part four of a series of lessons introducing Japanese verbs of giving and receiving. This lesson’s grammar point covers [...]

JLPT S2 #5 - New JLPT N4 Prep Course #5
by JapanesePod101.com
10 Mar 2010 at 11:30am
Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! What’s this section of the Japanese proficiency test? You’re puzzled at the series of weird Japanese words strung together. They don’t look like a sentence. In fact, they seem to be a jumble of Japanese words you have to sort out. No one told you that you’d have to solve puzzles [...]

Upper Intermediate Lesson S4 #5 - Do You Understand What I’m Telling You In J...
by JapanesePod101.com
9 Mar 2010 at 11:30am
Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! You’re attempting to train your Japanese co-workers on some new software they’ll need to create reports, but their eyes are glazing over. Maybe it’s just that it’s Monday morning, but you’re pretty sure they aren’t paying attention to a thing you’re saying in Japanese. To wake them up, you decide to [...]

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Advanced Japanese Lesson: 水に関する漢字
by JapanesePod101.com
11 Mar 2010 at 10:30am
人間の身体は約60％が水分である、と言われています。私たちは水がないと生きていけず、水が豊かな場所に文明が発達したことは言うまでもありませんね。漢字にも、「水」に関係した文字がたくさんありますよ。部首では「さんずい」と呼ばれる「氵」が、漢字の左側に見られるものは、一般的な漢和辞典に載っているだけで642もの多数にのぼります。その中で、日常生活にしばしば用いられる漢字を紹介しましょう。「洗」の文字に見られる「先」は、「足＋人」で、人間の足先を表わしています。爪先は、指と指の間に隙間があいて離れていますね。その隙間に水を通してきれいにするのが「洗う」という行為です。「洗濯」のように「洗」に組み合わされる「濯」にも「さんずい」が見られますよ。右側は「羽＋隹」。「隹」の部分は、他の漢字でもよく見かけませんか？　「隹」は「とり」と読み、「鳥」を表わしています。字形が似ていますものね。木の上に鳥がたくさんいると「集」という文字になり、「あつまる」と読みます。また、「焦」は「こがす、こげる」と読み、鳥を火であぶってちりちりと焦がす様子が漢字になっています。鳥がすいすいと飛んで前に進むから「進」という文字には「隹」がいますね。話題を戻すと、「濯」の文字には、鳥が羽根を高く上げた様子が含まれ、水で洗ったものをさっと持ち上げ、また水につけて洗って持ち上げて…と洗濯の動作を表わす漢字の組み合わせになっているのです。さて、「沈」はどうでしょう。「冘」は「牛＋川」で、牛を川の中に沈める儀式を表わし、「枕（まくら）」も頭も下に沈める寝具なので、「木＋冘」と書きます。「沈」と反対の意味の漢字は「浮」。これはどうでしょう。右側は、「爪＋子」で、「爪」は手の爪を表わしています。幼い子どもを手で大切にかばう様子を文字にすると「孚」となり、水を大切に抱えるようにしてうつぶせに浮かぶ様子が「浮」になりました。＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝ It is said that a person’s body is 60% water. We cannot survive without water, and it is needless to say that civilizations have grown in areas where there’s water. There are also many kanji that relate to 水 or “water”. The radical 氵 called sanzui seen on the left [...]

Learn Japanese Grammar
by JapanesePod101.com
10 Mar 2010 at 4:30pm
This Japanese All About lesson will help you navigate your way through Japanese grammar conventions. We will talk a little bit about how Japanese sentence order differs from that in English, how easy it is to form questions in Japanese, and all the other rules of English grammar you can throw out the window. Japanese is [...]

Death by Acronym: Part 2
by Eve Kushner
5 Mar 2010 at 11:30am
Quick LinksWelcome to Kanji Curiosity | The Basics | Glossary We start with Alberto’s haiku calendar for March. It’s lovely, as always, but there’s one difference this time; he’s the one who wrote the haiku! お疲れさまでした! (Otsukaresamadeshita! Good job!) See the comments section for his explanation of this haiku. Now we’ll return from the ethereal haiku world and [...]