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Posted by firestormx on July 24, 2010, 6:53 p.m.

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**

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Ferret 14 years, 6 months ago

Yes. You can also find it pretty easily with google.

Castypher 14 years, 6 months ago

Excellent, I forgot that didn't refer to non-symbolic spelling (whatever that's called).

Cesque 14 years, 6 months ago

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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.

She's right in theory (and about katakana being used for other languages), but in reality, virtually any word unrelated to the Japanese culture is taken from English (apart from Chinese, historically, of course, which is written in hanzi, though). That may not amount to 50%, but it sure looks like that in written text (mainly because katakana represents individual syllables, so there's a lot more of it than kanji). For God's sake, Japanese uses "teberu" and "supuun" for "table" and "spoon", and these aren't even the weirdest items they needed an English word for.

I like your katakana chart, though :)

Kaz 14 years, 5 months ago

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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.

For a smaller, less commercial site such as this one, I agree, tables are fine. But using tables doesn't allow you to do everything needed. I also find that if another developer sees a site made in tables, they lose credibility as a legitimate web developer and programmer.

The internet is changing, so should the developer's way of thinking.

KaBob799 14 years, 5 months ago

The point is you don't always need everything and so using tables in certain places, even on major sites, isn't a problem if it saves time and effort.

firestormx 14 years, 5 months ago

She says the reason why she doesn't have a lot of audio clips is because Japanese, unlike English sylables are pretty standard in how to pronounce. You learn how to in the first lesson, and then don't really need to from then on.

She is making audio, and a downloadable program for people who want to pay.

Castypher 14 years, 5 months ago

If she does it well, I wouldn't mind paying for something like that.

eagly 14 years, 5 months ago

As I see it, tables are great to use for tabular data, like stats, but not so much for layout design. I used to exclusively use tables for layouts, but I find divs and styles to be quite a lot less restricting and hindering to the design process of the site.

Using tables to "save time and effort" is a bit of a cop out if it restricts what you can/want to do with the design.

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The internet is changing, so should the developer's way of thinking.

I agree.

KaBob799 14 years, 5 months ago

That's why I said if you don't need anything that divs do.

Glen 14 years, 5 months ago

I'm wanting to learn Japanese.

So maybe you want to learn Japanese

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