A short History of Earthquakes in Japan Japan is situated in the collision zone of at least four lithospheric plates: the Eurasian/Chinese Plate, the North American Plate, the Philippine Plate and the Pacific Plate. The continuous movements of these plates generate a lot of energy released from time to time in earthquakes and tsunamis of varying magnitude and effects (Geologist Callan Bentley discusses in great detail the geological setting of the Japanese Islands). Written records of strong earthquakes date back at least 1.600 years.
NIHONGO eな - Portal for Learning Japanese - Digital Dialects (Learn Japanese) This is a site with various games for studying vocabulary and kanji. It’s very easy to use. I have plans to visit all kinds of places in Japan. Does Japanese have different dialects? The JLPT Study Page La décolonisation et la guerre vécues par les populations du Viêt Nam, du Laos et du Cambodge The Surprisingly Simple Logic Behind Japanese Sentence Structure - 80/20 Japanese Most people find Japanese sentence structure to be difficult and confusing. This is completely understandable considering how fundamentally different it is to other languages, but the truth is that Japanese grammar is actually incredibly logical – it just needs to be looked at from the right angle. In simple terms, Japanese sentences are structured as follows: the verb describing an action goes at the end of the sentence, and any other information related to that action (like people, places and things) goes before the verb. Particles, which are like little helper words, are then attached to each of these additional pieces of information to tell us how that information relates to the action.
USB Japanese group SPECTRUM NEXUS · Features · Mangajin · Learn Japanese Through Manga! What is Mangajin? Mangajin was created in the early 90's as a monthly English publication for students of the Japanese language. Unlike most text books that focused solely on teaching people Japanese through boring text, Mangajin was different in that it focused on showing readers a page of manga and then a page of English translations. As great of an idea that this sounds today, it didn't catch on in the 90's and Mangajin ended in 1996. Now manga in America is as popular as ever, which is why I have decided to put Mangajin onto this web site.
Private/Group lessons for English speakers The Japanese language school, Meguro Language Center (in Tokyo) was established in 1990 and since then has been attended by students from all over the world. We can offer English-speaking students part-time group lessons (conversation, business, JLPT), one-to-one lessons, intensive course, Online lesson (by Skype), and on-site lessons. 193 days, 28 weeks to JLPT on Jul. 1st, 2018 347 days, 50 weeks to JLPT on Dec. 2nd, 2018 Hiragana Practice Exercises – Learn Japanese Fill in the Hiragana Chart Though I already mentioned that there are many sites and helper programs for learning Hiragana, I figured I should put in some exercises of my own in the interest of completeness. I’ve removed the obsolete characters since you won’t need to know them.
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Japanese Punctuation - The Definitive Guide When you're sitting there writing something, you may take the little things for granted… little things like periods, commas, and quotation marks. That's cool— they only bind together everything a sentence holds dear. If you didn't have these little things, this "punctuation" if you will, the fabric of sentence time would tear apart, creating some kind of super-black hole. (Ironically, it would just look like a period.) And, wouldn't you know it, punctuation exists in Japanese as well!