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Essential Japanese: The Mental Model, Guide Released

Japanese Complete is delighted to announce the release of an essentials guide for Japanese, absolutely free. This guide is available free of charge for educational purposes and is not to be reprinted without permission. Download at https://japanesecomplete.com/guide What’s in the guide? Table of Contents Designed to give beginners an edge in conquering the Japanese mentalContinue reading “Essential Japanese: The Mental Model, Guide Released”

Japanese Complete 1.0

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Japanese Diacritical Marks

In Japanese, diacritical marks like the dakuten and handakuten are considered markers that indicate if a sound is vocalised or plosive, respectively. Handaku-ten (“Half vocalised” = “Plosive”)半濁点・はんだくてん『○ ﾟ』は→ぱ、ひ→ぴ、ふ→ぷ、へ→ぺ、ほ→ぽ 　　　　ha→pa, hi→pi, fu→pu, he→pe, ho→po Daku-ten (“Vocalised” = Hum while you say the sound)濁点・だくてん『○ ﾞ』　　　　は→ば、ひ→び、ふ→ぶ、へ→べ、ほ→ぼ　　　　ha→ba, hi→bi, fu→bu, he→be, ho→bo 　　　　か→が、き→ぎ、く→ぐ、け→げ、こ→ご　　　　ka→ga, ki→gi, ku→gu, ke→ge, ko→go 　　　　た→だ、ち→ぢ、つ→づ、て→で、と→ど　　　　ta→da, chi→ji, tsu→dzu,Continue reading “Japanese Diacritical Marks”

Japanese Complete First Lessons Live

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Language Blending

Language Blending, also referred to as Translanguaging, the creation of Bridge Language, and also sometimes Multilinguality, is cross-language teaching and elucidation that yields rapid conceptual understanding and meta-linguistic comprehension, almost as if multiple cities were each being built in the landscape of the brain, and the routes and paths between each city were getting stronger the more the languages were criss-crossed.

Top 50 Most Frequent Japanese Verbs

This article is about the first 50 most-frequent verbs as determined by the Balanced Contemporary Corpus of Written Japanese (2011). “Balanced” refers to the utilisation of online web forums as well as television subtitles in addition to novels and newspapers. 1 言う to say, to speak.　いう2 する to do. 3 ある to be (inanimate existence),Continue reading “Top 50 Most Frequent Japanese Verbs”