Comments on: Japanese Terms Explained for Beginners

By: zonjineko

zonjineko — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 00:18:40 +0000

@damien_m Good point – I might do a new article on those and link back. They’re probably not what real beginners would confront, particularly radicals, but I won’t make that assumption for everyone.

By: damien_m

damien_m — Sun, 12 Jun 2011 15:29:09 +0000

I’d say for the Kanji you could expand it to add particles and radicals (I’m not even sure of the differences myself!)

By: akimitsuru

akimitsuru — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 02:30:57 +0000

thanks alot of sharing this. it does really clear alot of my doubts. you had made my learning more interesting

By: zonjineko

zonjineko — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 01:42:43 +0000

Thx much appreciated ^_^

By: Andrew J (@ajep)

Andrew J (@ajep) — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 23:34:36 +0000

Thank you so much for this. It is a brilliant, easy to follow explanation of the basics of the Japanese scripts and should be very helpful for beginner students of Japanese. ありがとう！

By: PompoFelix

PompoFelix — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 12:11:54 +0000

Is it right you mostly use the kun reading for names?

By: zonjineko

zonjineko — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 06:46:20 +0000

Ayana/White Angel: Yes me too – it’s funny to look back and see what was so confusing at the time that now looks so simple. I guess that’s called progress! ^_^

By: Ayana

Ayana — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 01:46:33 +0000

Great post. Although I was able to figure all these terms out through my 6 months of studying (not all at once of course) this is a great way to put it all together for Beginners.

By: White Angel

White Angel — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 01:39:36 +0000

Thank you so much for writing this post. It’s really crazy confused when I started meeting with Japanese terms as soon as I decided to learn Japanese. This post resolves all my confusion. Once again, thank you so much. It’s awesome!