The First 100 Essential Japanese Words

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Mon - Gateway to the first 100 essential words in Japanese

This text of the first 100 essential words in Japanese is not scripture, but it gives you a good one hundred words to start your study with.

1. mon - gateway
2. After- ato,go
3. Again - mata, futatabi
4. All - subete,zenbu
5. Almost - hotondo
6. Also - mo
7. Always - itsumo
8. And -so^shite,ya, ka
9. Because - nazenaraba
10. Before - mae, mae ni
11. Big - okii
12. But - shikashi,ga,keredomo,kedo
13. (I) can - (watakushi wa)dekiru
14. (I) come -(watakushi wa) kuru
15. Either/or - dochira ka
16. (I) find - mitsukeru
17. First - saisho
18. For - no tame ni
19. Friend -tomodachi, yu^jin
20. From - kara
21. (I) go - iku
22. Good - yoi, ii
23. Good-bye - dewa mata, sayo^nara, ja mata ne
24. Happy(happiness) - shiawase
25. (I) have - (watakushi wa) motsu
26. He - kare
27. Hello - konnichiwa (lit. good afternoon)
28. Here - koko
29. How - do^ yatte
30. I - watakushi,ware(old style), ore(male), boku(young male), washi(old man), watashi(female)
31. (I) am - iru(to exist)
32. If - moshi
33. In - naka ni
34. (I) know - shitte iru
35. Last - saigo^
36. (I) like - suki
37.a little -, sukoshi, chikotto
38. (I) love - ai suru
39. (I) make - tsukuru
40. Many - takusan
41. One - hitotsu
42. More - motto
43. Most - mottomo
44. Much - takusan, ippai
45. My - watakushi no, etc.
46. New - atarashii
47. No - iie, chigau
48. Not - dewa nai
49. Now - ima
50. Of - no
51. Somtimes - toki doki
52. On - ue
53. One - ippon, ichidai,
54. Only- dake
55. Or - ka
56. Other - hoka no
57. Our - watakushi tachi no
58. Out - soto
59. Over - owari
60. People - hitobito
61. Place - tokoro, bashou
62. Please - o negai shimasu, kudasai
63. Same - onaji
64. (I) see, to see - miru, (naruhodo)
65. She - kanojo
66. So - so
67. Some -ikutsuka no
68. Sometimes, occasionally - tama ni, toki doki
69. Still - shizuka na
70. Such - so no yo^ na
71. (I) tell - iu, tsutaeru
72. Thank you - domo arigatou gozaimasu
73. That - sore
74. The - no equivalent
75. Their - karera no
76. Them - karera
77. Then - sore kara
78. There is - aru
79. They -karera
80. Thing - nanika,
81. (I)think - so^ omou
82. This - kore
83. Time - jikan, toki
84. To - ni
85. Under - shita
86. Up - ue
87. Us - watakushi tachi, etc.
88. (I) use - tsukau
89. Very - tottemo
90. We - watakushi tachi
91. What - nani
92. When - itsu
93. Where - doko
94. Which - dore
95. Who - dare
96. Why - naze
97. With - to, to tomo ni
98. Yes - hai
99. You - anata
100. Your - anata no

Some words have no basic equivalent in both languages. Next lens will explore why?

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A Man In Japan wrote

Sorry but this person hasn't even mentioned anything about men and women using different words, like, atashi. A man would never in a million years use atashi to talk about him self because that is something girls say...

Why don't you point these VERY important things out instead of confusing everyone and making the chance of people who use such words to lose a lot of respect by using such words?

And also, moneygames Japanese is not difficult! The only thing about Japanese being difficult, is because Japanese people still think they are in world war 2 and still try to disguise the things they say, as this made it more difficult for us listening in on their communications and to understand what they were saying. Also, the books that try to teach you Japanese are a complete mess! Buy Making Sense Of Japanese to see what the text books leave out.

If text books are going to leave out information, then how can ANYONE learn ANYTHING properly? Japanese is not as hard as the Japs make it out

Posted October 21, 2008

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Ryuuzaki L wrote

Okay, i'm not sure if you have to pay to send this or not. but, i have a monster question, well. i am starting a band. and i'm wanting to use japanese words instead of english.

but i dont know how to read the block words.

so i need like a, typing of it, like. pronouncing it, telling you how to say it.

and it's a song that i wrote that i need to be translated in that way.

if anyone would please add me on myspace. my myspace is.

http://www.myspace.com/Ryuuzaki_Is_Justice

and i will trust you in giving the words of the song, to tranlate them.

please, and thank you.

Posted October 01, 2008

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EditorDave wrote...

Konnichi wa, Brettkun! Ogenki desu ka? Watakushi wa isogashi desu.... Howya be? I'm fine... but busy. Just updated a bunch of my lenses -- haven't made any new ones recently, it's tough enough keeping up with refreshing my existing ones. I'm enjoying going through your Japanese language lessons - Good stuff. Ganbatte ne!

Posted August 24, 2008

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