Introduction
Yomikaki-SUN is designed for you to teach yourself how to read and write Japanese efficiently.
The Japanese writing system uses three different sets of characters: katakana, hiragana and kanji (Chinese characters). The first two scripts are made up of phonetic symbols. Kanji, however, is pretty challenging. The difficulty lies in how to read the kanji, as very many of them have at least two readings. These two readings are called the on reading (based on the original Chinese sound) and the kun reading (a Japanese word corresponding to the character's original meaning). In addition, there are large numbers of words made up of a combination of two or more kanji, creating more complex vocabulary items, some of which have unpredictable readings. Yomikaki-SUN introduces more than 500 kanji used in e-SUN to give you a firm foundation of Japanese reading and writing.
Yomikaki-SUN contains a workbook as well for those of you who wish to practice how to handwrite Japanese characters. Indeed you have all you need to master katakana and hiragana, but certainly not kanji. Indeed, even well educated Japanese natives find themselves reaching for the character dictionary now and again. Chinese characters have been in use for well over three thousand years, so all we can do here is to provide an introduction. For a more thorough study of Chinese characters, there are many available resources dedicated to helping you study kanji.
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Structure
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Katakana
- Katakana is predominantly used when expressing foreign names. It is, therefore, presented at the beginning of the study so that you can relate the characters with your farmiliar words and see how the original sound is distorted when used as Japanese.
- Each section containes Explanation, Sound, and Stroke Order demos of the character, together with a Work Sheet and textbox to practice writing by hand, and typing.
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Hiragana
- Core parts of japanese verbs, adjectives and nouns are usually written in Kanji byt their inflecting parts are written in hiragana.
- Hiragana is also used for instrumental words such as particles, prefixes, suffixes, etc.
- Each section containes Explanation, Sound, and Stroke Order demos of the character, together with a Work Sheet and textbox to practice writing by hand, and typing.
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Kanji
- Kanji are Chinese characters.
- They are used to write the core part of Japanese verbs, adjectives and nouns.
- Each section contains Explanation, Stroke Order demo of the character, together with a Work Sheet and Textbox to practice writing by hand and typing.
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Price
| Yomikaki-SUN |
6-month access
12-month access |
2,500 yen
4,500 yen |
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