About the Nihongo Blog
Hi, my name is Tae Kim. I’m currently working on a Japanese guide to Japanese grammar.
What you will find here are tidbits about Japanese that I hope will be useful for those studying the language. I plan to separate my posts into three major categories: Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced. In the beginner category, I will be talking about the fundamental principles of Japanese such as particles, parts of speech, and simple expressions. The advanced category will cover things like formal language and various written expressions. Everything in between will go in the intermediate category.
Everything here will assume knowledge of Hiragana, Katakana, and the basic ideas behind Kanji. If you are completely new to the language, I suggest you learn Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji at the following pages:
All Japanese words in the beginner category will have the reading and definition included. All you need to do is hold the mouse over the word and a small popup will display the reading and definition. For verbs, the popups will have the reading for the original dictionary form. For anything above beginner level I will assume you will be familiar enough with the language to look up everything yourself. With the Internet, this is incredibly easy as there are all sorts of online dictionaries and tools that will automatically create mouse-over popups with definitions. Check out the useful links post for resources that will do this for you.
Here are the feeds for this blog so that you can save yourself from having the check the site all the time.
RSS
http://nihongo.3yen.com/feed/rss2/
Atom
http://nihongo.3yen.com/feed/atom/
If you have any questions, suggestions for posts, or want to go drinking in the Tokyo area, don’t hesitate to email me at kimchi314@yahoo.co.jp or you could just post a comment somewhere too.
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April 26th, 2006 at 6:01 am
Dear Tae,
No, I did not say that I thought your comment on the JapanesePod101 site should be deleted. My point was that if it were a purely commercial venture, they would not allow you to advertise your competing site for free on theirs. For example, if there were two newspapers in one town, would Newspaper A publish a letter from Newspaper B stating that the Newspaper A practiced shoddy journalism if the same letter went on to provide the phone number for ordering subscriptions to Newspaper B? Obviously, Newspaper A would either never print the letter, or if they did, they would edit out the contact information. That is how the commercial world normally operates, and my point is that JapanesePod101 was not operating that way (even though for many of them, it has become their livlihood).
That said, I must compliment you on your site. You have a VERY impressive site for a one-person operation by somebody who holds down an outside job.
Bob
April 26th, 2006 at 1:58 pm
Yes, I suppose that’s the kind of behavior that starts to exhibit once money comes into the equation. But it’s kind of sad if you are in a business for education such as learning Japanese, isn’t it?
I appreciate the compliment, thanks.
December 4th, 2006 at 1:58 pm
Japanese is pretty tuff stuff! Best of luck.
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