But you don't know where to start. There are lots of places out there to learn Japanese. Books, school, games.
Imagine all these things put together in one. There is a lot of that available on the internet, but all those adds and "sign up required" makes you frustrated , doesn't it?A frustrated person means loss of customers as well as loss of interest in learning a language. This is how life continued until…..http://www.123japanese.com was made.Its not like any other Japanese learning website. This website has no annoying ads that cover the learning area. Its focused on teaching Japanese, not making money. Its 100% free, you don't have to sign up and you have access to all the information right away.But it gets better. 123japanese's vocabulary section is like having your own personal Japanese to English dictionary (except its not a translator, it has a already there list of words). There are thousands of vocabulary to look at, and they are all categorized and then subcategorized so you can make your learning experience easier.Now we all know just knowing a bunch of vocabulary isn't going to make you fluent. This is why there is a full lesson section which you will start from the beginning and work your way to the top.Even more. There is a verb section with the verbs conjugations, as well as a online forum to talk to other members. There are books and videos to help you remember and read. As well as kana charts to help you learn to write the kana.The kanji section is still under construction, and there arn't any games yet, but there soon will be.All of the content is both in English, Kana and romaji. If you have no clue what those words mean, why not go learn. Why not go learn Japanese today, because learning a language, just got easier.**Note, If we have and fluent native speakers on the website please send me a PM**
How does Cesque feel about the Japanese language?
In IE8 you can turn on compatability view and it looks normal. Maybe similar things in other browsers.
Eh. Looks perfectly fine to me in Chrome. I don't see this "space" that everyone's getting pissed about.
For the record, every single thing written in this post up until now was written by my girlfriend while I've been away.
I'm glad Ferret and everyone else likes the content. Miranda's worked hard on compiling it on her own.The suggestions are good, especially the table headers, haha. Now then, in defence of myself (and I don't want anyone to take this personally):1) This was designed back in IE6. A long time ago. I've fixed the centering and stuff like that.2) Tables are awesome. Seriously. I look at anyone who declares that designs solely with CSS and divs is the only way to go, has little to no experience developing funtional websites. A wordpress theme is not considered a functional website.divs and styles do amazing things, and are very helpful, and I use them EXTENSIVELY in my own projects, but to completely shun tables is one of the most foolish things I see online.3) (to no one in particular, but a lot of people in general) I wish people would stfu about IE's lack of standards compliance. That concept is from, as Xemic put it, "the late 90s/early 00s. It's 2010 for Christs sake."People need to get with the times on what IE8 renders.Tables are great, I can't imagine forcing myself to design a site using no tables at all. Theres just some places where tables are easier and better than/equal to divs.
If anybody has seen the previews for IE9, it's awesome. The only reason theres such a big anti-IE sentiment is because microsoft basically abandoned it for 5 years after IE6 came out so it's taking them a few versions to completely catch up with other browsers.Use tables if and only if using divs is equal to doing the hard way, is my rule. =)
For instance, 64digits' current layout could easily be fully div-based.Meh I would say 35% katakana 50% kanji (the most difficult one to learn ;_;) and 15% hiragana between words and every so often a full word.
Miranda disagrees, she that it would be more like 50% kanji, 35% hiragana and 15% katakana.
She also says to Cesque that 50% of vocabulary is not English, and katakana is not only used for English words, its used for any language (french, german) as well as Japanese words, It is also used for animals even if they have a Japanese name. If you don't want to learn to "speak" Japanese, then it would be useful to learn katakana since at your local grocery store, you will be able to read the Japanese products (a little bit).It would be nice to understand the sounds too. I haven't looked over that site enough, but does it have anything regarding sounds and syllables?