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Chugoku Chūgoku (中国) is the westernmost part of the main Japanese island Honshu. Aside from Hiroshima, most of Chugoku is probably well off the beaten track for a brief visit to Japan; but if time permits, you'll find a region full of memorable sights and experiences, and a side of Japan that's completely unlike the better-known destinations in Kansai and Kanto. Regions[edit] Map of Chugoku Cities[edit]

Coolest Traveling » The Best Japanese Slang Dictionary Online elcome to the premier dictionary of Japanese slang and colloquialism! Below you will find an update-to-date collection of colloquial expression, dialects, borrowed phrases, and pure, modern slang. Enjoy! Japanese Cheat Sheet After 2 months of planning and composition (okay, so I did procrastinate quite a bit), I now understand how Moses felt when he descended Mount Sinai with the holy tablets. Behold, Nihonshock’s newly revised and much improved Japanese cheat sheet! This is a “cheat sheet” for the Japanese language. It is an attempt to condense and organize as many of the basic elements of the language onto one sheet of paper as possible.

Japanese "adjectives" [Back to the main Japanese page] Why do I write "adjectives" in quotes for this chapter? Because your mind has a preset idea of what an adjective is-- based on how English uses words called adjectives to modify nouns-- and the Japanese adjective is not quite the same. It is indeed a class of words that modifies nouns, but it does so in a different way than the corresponding class in English. Hence, your intuition will be wrong in some cases.

Anishinaabemowin Grammar This page provides a table of contents to the on-line grammar, which is in its infant stages right now (there's almost nothing in it!). Click on a chapter's title to move to its detailed contents, or any detailed topic title to go to the corresponding page. This Is The Greatest Place In The Known Universe. Take One Look And You’ll See Why. Ōkunoshima, Japan, is a place that you’ll want to see before you die. Why? Because it might just be the cutest place on earth. It’s known as Rabbit Island and that’s because it’s inhabited by hundreds of adorable bunnies. A couple decided to go camping on Ōkunoshima, and they got up close and personal with some of the adorable residents. You’ll be so jealous. The Japanese Slang Jiko undefined The Japanese Slang Jisho 最 高君の俗語の辞書HOMEPAGE

Tumbleweed's Resources for Learning Japanese Okay, here's a familiar scenario... For whatever reason, you've taken up the study of the Japanese language. You've gone through a couple of the beginner's level books, you've run through a couple of basic tutorial programs, you've even taken a couple of classes someplace. Then you decide to try out your new knowledge. You try talking to native speakers, you try to watch an unsubtitled movie or read a magazine. Your head swims with confusion as you recognized maybe (if you're lucky) about 2 percent of the material despite all your hard work.

Japanese grammar Some distinctive aspects of modern Japanese sentence structure[edit] Word order: head final and left branching[edit] The modern theory of constituent order ("word order"), usually attributed to Joseph Greenberg, identifies several kinds of phrase. Each one has a head and possibly a modifier. The head of a phrase either precedes its modifier (head initial) or follows it (head final).

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