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This text of the first 100 essential words in Japanese is not scripture, but it gives you a good one hundred words to begin your Japanese language journey. There are many benefits in the practice of saying these words out loud. Language aquisition comes not just from reading, but from speaking. Once you read through this list, try speaking these words out loud until they begin to feel comfortable on your tongue. - 3 months ago

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In this lens, we will study numbers in Japanese. When I lived in Japan, one of the strategies I used to become fluent was to count to a certain number, and then count backwards. At first, it started with counting from one to ten, and once that was mastered, I went from one to one hundred and then backwards. Once that was mastered, I counted from one to one thousand backwards. Yes, it sounds tedious, but the work paid off. I can easily count, add, give change, give directions, ask for addresses, and use or do anything that requires numbers without even thinking about it. Numbers became routine and easy. - 3 months ago

OK so here goes! The Following isn't just some humdrum useless list of never to be used vocabulary, this is 'The Motts'. These words should come in handy at some point in your acquisition of the Japanese language.  While living in Japan, I kept a Journal of my doings. Along side of my nightly journal entries, I would re-copy all the words that I heard throughout the day, taken from a small note pad from which I used to memorize vocabulary and then right before I went to sleep, I would transfer them to my nikki (diary) filtering out the words that weren't real words and putting them in a nice and neat orderly fashion. Somedays I had quite a few words that I thought were words but when I searched for them in the dictionary there was no such thing. In reality, what really happened was that my ears at that time were just starting to get adjusted to the sounds of the Japanese language.  One of the main reasons why I couldn't find a word was because nobody had told me that I needed to make the distinction between a long vowel sound and a short one. Since I was just a novice Japanese Dictionary user, if I heard a word that was of the long vowel type, I thought that I just wasn't hearing things correctly... yet. As soon as I figured out how to differentiate the sounds of a single a sound, from a doubled aa sound, and simlilarly a single i, from a double ii, the once undecipherable, non-existent words magically appeared in my dictionary. It was SL2 epiphany. So needless to say, it is important to pay careful attention to the lenth of vowels in Japanese words. Vowel length makes a big difference in the world of Japanese words. There were days when I wanted to give up my attemtps to learn how to speak Japanese. But through a little persistence it would eventually come to me. It was a lot of hard work, but I did the work in little baby steps. I remember listening to the radio to see if I could understand anything, but the Japanese would be speaking so fast and I could only catch maybe one word out of 5 minutes worth of conversation. I would try to start a conversation with the Japanese but the words were whirling around me at light speed, it seemed I could never catch on to what they were saying. But I persisted, and it paid off. Brick by brick, piece by piece, here a little, there a little, I had to have some milk before I could ge to the meat. By that time, the ever courteous and polite Japanese would begin to speak to me in English - broken- but nevertheless understandable. But, still that didn't curb my appetite for complete mastery of the Japanese language. It was my goal to be able to speak in Japanese with a Japanese like a Japanese, and I would give any and all things to obtain it.   This list is filtered to make sure that they will be useful to you. I hope you enjoy my random useful list of Japanese words and phrases hand selected for you to use as you see fit. ensou - a musical performance joukyou - circumstances kokuren - The United Nations takeuma - lit. bamboo horse = stilts aite - the other party, one's opponent, rival or match idou - move, travel densen suru - to be contagious suzume - sparrow nikko - sunlight gekko - moonlight ensoku suru - to go on a picnic gakudan - an orchestra, a band fuke - dandruff ensoukai - recital, piano etc ryuugaku suru - to study abroad ryuugakusei - foreign exchange student fumikiri - lit. to step and cut or railroad crossing oyayubi - lit. parent finger or thumb tsurai - difficult, hardship, hard, painful, trying nameru - to lick kagaku - science moufu - blanket denshigaku - electronics kitsune - fox honki de...? - seriously...? maji de...? - seriously..? kenpou -  a constitution kokka - a national anthem terekusai - embarassing niau - to go well with, clothes, hats etc, to look good in seiza suru - to sit upright (square) traditional Japanese kneeling or sitting posture ninki - popularity chuuto hanpa - half-assed, mickey moused, careless, halfway unsatisfactory inshou - impression honmono da - it's the real thing sugoi - bitchin, awesome, great!, righteous, amazing, super kando suru - to be impressed chousen suru - to challenge, attempt kyoudou suru - to cooperate kigen ga kireru - to expire (time), time limit jibika -ears, nose, and  throat doctor zatsuon - t.v., radio interference douryoku - to try, to strive boeki - trade teian suru - to suggest kankakuteki na - sensual giri no otousan - father-in-law kemushi - caterpillar nokogiru - to saw kyousei suru -to compel, dorodarake - muddy kuuki o nuku - deflate (air in tire etc) ton demo nai - ain't no thing atarimae ja nai? - naturally! irezumi - tattoo momo - peach, thighs kakoyoku - to look good in your clothes, studly, or chic kakowarui - to look like crap ( in your clothes) niau -it fits you, it suits you, it looks good on you monomane - mime, imitate chigau yo! - nuh uh! no way its different! jishin - self, earthquake zettai - for sure nenrei ni kankei nai(aru) - has nothing to do with age sugoku kiken - extremely dangerous anata ni chousen - do you dare? kiite inai - I haven't heard hazukashigari - bashful ketten - weaknesses tsumari - in summation, in other words haguki - gums (mouth) tsuneru - to pinch shikeru - to go stale, to get old or moldy mukatsuku or mugatsuku - thoroughly pissed off hineru - twist, twirl wrench sanagi - cocoon furitsuke - choreography awabi - shell fish kaki - persimmon butai - the stage chigau t'omou (I) don't think so sou shite - do it that way then iran - (I) don't need it or any of it iranai - same as iran toriaezu - for the time being gaikoku no yarikata - the way foreigners do it komakai - change (money), details kirawareru - to be hated tsurete iku - to take someone tsurete kuru - to bring someone suiei suru - to go swimming oyogu - to swim douyou shiyasui - unstable kitai hazure - a letdown sougouteki na - synthetic stay tuned for more useful vocabulary you can plug and play into all the Ghetto Grammar constructions. As Always Ganbatte Ne! Do Your Best! Makurasuki Sensei.   - 3 months ago

If you have been around in the internet marketing world long enough you probably have heard of Mike Filsaime's Viral Friends Generator. What it does is basically bribe the visitors to tell their friends about the site. In the early days, the interface of the VFG is just a few simple text boxes where visitors can type in their friend's email addresses plus a simple submit button. This creates a win-win situation for both the site owner and the visitors. The site owner gets more traffic, the visitors get a free gift (something of value), everyone happy. However, things usually don't turn out the way we plan; often time the site owners run into a problem where visitors do not type in valid email addresses so visitors get free gift but site owners get nothing. There is also unsettled discussion on where is the best place to put the tell-a-friend page, after opt-in? after sign up? after log out? and the list goes on and on. In the early days, the tell-a-friend script doesn't give you much flexibility on location of the tell-a-friend page plus the restriction for the kind of website that the tell-a-friend script can be used with. Those days you only see marketing sites use this kind of tool and most of the time you will find tell-a-friend script after opt-in pages or sign up pages. So, folks in the internet marketing niche kind of got used to it after a while so the tell-a-friend script later became "invisible" to the visitors. Recently, web 2.0 has been very big. One social site started to implement similar idea to the tell-a-friend script where members are given a chance to invite their friends to come join the social site. And here is the trick, users can just login to their email accounts and invites friends on their contact list through simple web interface. And now almost all of the social network sites use the same trick. The "trick" is responsible for the viral growth of those social network sites. So now, the tell-a-friend script follows the social network industry. Nowadays, the email contacts importer is a basic requirement for every tell-a-friend script on the market, it comes down to the question of how many email clients does the script support. Often time in the promotion material will say something like "grow your site like Myspace and Facebook" but we all know that this kind of statement is a cliche. - 3 months ago

The list of Japanese words, phrases, sayings, and other useful expressions found below are current or colloquial enough so that when you put them to use in your Japanese conversations, you won't sound like a Japanese Grandpa. The list below is up to date and will keep you from sounding like you learned your Japanese from the great US Naval commander, Commodore Perry. Don't get me wrong, pre-World War II Japanese is certainly considered polite language, but knowing how to say the words of the ancient samurai may be as useful as knowing 'Old' or 'Middle' English in the 21st century. Most language course material is so old that it is practically useless. My best advice is to get the most current edition of all your language study guides, books, and materials. Dictionaries of languages are continually being revised; They are updated and modified,and since words, like bread, become stale and occassionally moldy with age, words can and often do fall out of usefulness in colloquial speech. Although an interesting subject for study, ancient Japanese isn't going to be handy if you want to converse in a modern Japan. For those who want to converse in Japanese now, it may be better to spend your time studying and learning Japanese phrases that are actally used right now in modern Japan. (This Japanese word list is up to date as of 2008 December). A lot of times, Japanese learning tools like grammar guides, expression books, and dictionaries become outdated and the information contained therein become useless. In conversing with the world in other languages it is necessary to revise the words of a dictionary. The following Japanese phrases are currently colloquial as of 2009 and can be used in your Japanese language conversations right away. Learn the following Japanese words, phrases, sayings and other useful expressions to help build a strong Japanese word resevoir that you can draw upon. Success in a language starts with knowing the words of that language. Give this Japanese word/phrase/expression list a look over and pick out words that stick out to you first; Words that help you visualize a hint as to how to pronounce them. Something about a word that sticks out can help you remember that word. Making some correlation between your home language words and the second language will help when memorizing. The correlation you use to remember the words/phrases/sayings/expressions might remind you of something it resembles in English. Any way you can devise to familiarize yourself with the memorization of words will help in their retention. Not only that, but I bet you'll be surprised at how many Japanese phrases you might already know. - 2 months ago

In Japanese, the days of the week are easy to learn. The days of the week from Sunday to Monday for a total of 7 days, all have one thing in common in Japanese. YO^BI or 'day'. ^ -long vowels Long vowel that is pronounced like the English word ,"owe". For every day of the week in Japanese, you will find the word yo^bi pronounced like Kobe Bryant's first name. However, when romanizing the Japanese syllabary, it is common practice to pronounce i as an ee as in the word need. The Japanese vowel "e" is pronounced as the "e" in bed. Knowing this will surely improve our Japanese pronunciation. How to say the "Days of the Week" in Japanese. As in English, the words for Saturday, Sunday, and Monday are the words Saturn's day, Sun's day, and the Moon's day. The word for day like we use in this sense is yo^bi.  1. Sun   yo^bi 2. Moon yo^bi 3. Fire yo^bi 4. Water yo^bi 5. Wood yo^bi 6. Gold yo^bi 7. Saturn yo^bi    and . . .                                         Sun = Nichi                                     Moon = Getsu                                        Fire = Ka                                     Water = Sui                                      Wood = Moku                                        Gold = Kin                                      Saturn = Do^ (long vowel O-) do a little addition and we have  . . . 1. Sunday = Nichiyo^bi 2. Monday = Getsuyo^bi 3. Tuesday = Kayo^bi 4. Wednesday = Suiyo^bi 5. Thursday = Mokuyo^bi 6. Friday = Kinyo^bi 7. Saturday = Do^yo^bi The only question I have is how did tuesday, wednesday, thursday, friday get messed up? Has it anything to do with . . .  the Tower of Babel? I tend to think so. As always, Ganbatte Ne! Do your Best! Makuarasuki - 3 months ago

#1. recommended – http://surveysavvy.com/  #2. recommended – http://www.esearch.com/ #3. recommended - http://www.surveyspot.com/   3 Survey Companies That Keep Sending Me Checks! 3 online survey sites worth your time! Now don’t get me wrong, In order to get paid by the survey sites I had to manually request that a check be sent to me. But the checks did come and only after about 6 weeks. The work is minimal, but the pay is not too shabby. There are times the surveys can get a little tedious, but for what service I am exchanging for it, it is like going California or bust! This lense has focused for you the three survey sites. I recommend  if you need a little extra cash every now and then. All you need is a little time (usually between 3-20 minutes is all), a computer, and an honest opinion to get started. I can vouch for the following 3 online survey sites as being solid for paying, and solid for the amount of surveys available which you can take. Everything about these 3 survey sites is a well rounded me applausing and saying thankyou for the easy money. You wll say afterward, 'darn... I just made $15 with this survey and dang... it was fun!' I know there are a lot of survey sites out there and you could end up wasting a lot of time testing survey sites out to see if they are even worthy of your consideration. I know its only 3 sites that I am recommending to you but these sites I can vouch because I personally receive checks seemingly with no end. Some sites send you surveys alright, but you may never seem to qualify for the ones that pay cash, or, there are could be some other (so many other)technicalities you might encounter which will make it seem like you may never qualify to take their cash surveys. On top of that there are always the possiibility of software glitches or unrecognizable cookies that link your name to sombody else or never attached your email address to the survey you took. Just forget about those survey sites and rest easy knowing that the three I will show you here are decent and serve as role models for the other sites.  Don't mess around with some mediocre garbage of a survey site where you pay them money to join or simply waste too much of your time. After all the more surveys you take the more money you can mak. Some sites claim to pay cash when in reality they instead utilize some strange bonus point system where if you save up points you get a prize. And the prizes are usually really stuff you could get at the $.99 cent store. The following 3 online survey sites, pay cash for your time and your honest opinion. If taking surveys by filling out forms online sounds interesting to you, by all means don’t hesitate and sign up now. These three sites I know pay and the checks just don’t seem to stop. How did I come to know which sites are worth my time and effort? Let me tell you... about 5 years ago or so when the net still seemed fresh, I started joining every survey site I could fill out forms for. I did this because someone had suggested to me that the more surveys I take, the more money I could make. So I did just that, I joined survey sites left and right wasting a huge amount of my time sifting through gobs and gobs of emails till I found some sites whose membership was worth keeping. I'll list 3 of them shortly. In my searching for good survey sites there were a lot of similar bad experinces I started to be unhappy with. The one that really chapped my hide was as I would begin to fill out a survey, I would only later find out 3 -10 minutes into taking the survey that I didin't qualify. On top of that who knows if any particular survey site or survey company even has surveys for which You , me or anybody might qualify. Qualification is a distinguishable factor between worth your time and not worth your time survey sites. Because if you don't qualify, you don't get paid. Some sites are easier to qualify for surveys. Three of them I will list in a minute. Although you won’t want to quit your day job, filling out online surveys can be worth the time you put into it and you can reap the benefits and rewards of those efforts in as little as 6 weeks. Once you get the ball rolling, the checks you can receive just don’t seem to stop. For those of you always a couple a dollars short at the end of the month or whatever your situation is that demands a few more bucks each month, surveys may be the way. A little extra cash is always acceptable, non? When filling out surveys I always try my best to fill them out completely and honestly. This ensures that taking surveys for money will last a little longer, and the flow of checks will not wane. What good is the information gathered by a company from a survey if it isn’t useful and true. I suggest being as truthful as possible when taking online surveys. If we answer all the survey questions honestly and truthfully the information gathered becomes valuable to the people collecting the information and we can be assured that we will be asked again to do more surveys. Sometimes people don’t use the proper amount of time to answer and completely fill out a survey. This only hurts the people who honestly answer them and it will hurt everyone, the company included in the long run due to the unreliability and uselessness of the surveys. There are now a lot of survey sites that safe guard against bogus survey takers by utilizing check questions and other methods to weed out and identify survey abusers. If we keep the system honest by answering truthfully this can only bring positive results. The companies that gather the survey information actually help to shape the directions of their products and services to better suit and improve upon the product lines on the consumer’s behalf. Be rewarded for your efforts and your honest opinions. The following 3 survey companies pay cash to you for your time and honest opinions. These 3 survey sites are the ones that I have personally found to be the easiest to deal with in terms of qualifying for and pay promptly and the surveys are usually pretty fun. There can be some really tedious surveys out there waiting to be filled out by you if you like. Instead of wasting your time filling out boring surveys and not making any money accept 2000 points good on a Disney coffee mug, sign up at these 3 survey sites and you will have fun making money. Once the checks start coming you will be a very enthusiastic check receiving, money making, part-time, free lance, survey filler outer. Instructions – Sign up at the following 3 survey sites, fill out the questionnaires or profiles as they are usually called (profiles are helpful for determining the best surveys for you), you will receive confirmation e-mail. (Also, it is wise to set up an e-mail account that you will use solely for the purpose of filling out surveys.) The rest is easy... #1 recommended – http://www.surveysavvy.com/  #2. recommended – http://www.esearch.com/ #3. recommended - http://www.surveyspot.com/     - 3 months ago