白のGuide to Learning Japanese!
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This website is intended to aid and assist those who desire to learn and become fluent in Japanese (日本語). The Study Guide provides information, tips, and a very detail oriented slow-paced curriculum. While the curriculum under the study guide is a drawn out process designed to attain a high-level of fluency after many years, feel free to work at a pace more comfortable to you (be that faster or slower).
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JUN 05 Update
Ok, so I have finished the practice sheets page and am working on the study, links, and recommendations page. Content will probably be posted next week in those categories, and hope to have a significant amount completed by June 17th. I apologize for being a bit slow, but this month has turned out be rather hectic. Thank you for visiting this site, and please over the next few weeks to watch the growth.
JUN 04 Began filling in content!
So there are now a bunch of practice sheet links for hiragana and katakana under the practice sheet link. Also you can come through the first two units of kanji (which also have links to their stroke order and dictionary), which is a total of 240 kanji. I have prepared the data to upload for the remaining 1700 kanji, but I will probably post more in the study guide lesson section first. Anyways, please keep this bookmarked, because I promise it is going to be a very good efficient website that WILL teach you japanese. Rosetta stone charges $600 dollars for learning language, but this site will remain free.
JUN 02 Achitecture/Framing Complete!
Finally completed the hard part. The basic html and webpages are up, but they are lacking content. However the infrastructure, security, and sql/php are in essence completed. Thus the only remaining step is to install the content of this site (which will take a long time). However I am confident that the needed time to upload enough knowledge to raise people to teenage fluency should be accomplished by August 15th.
JUN 01 Site Founded!
This website is new, and in the next several weeks (maybe even months) I will update, build, and post the curriculum, information, and useful links. Please be patient, and feel free to bookmark this site for future use. From now on I will post under the name 白。
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About me
I was in the US Navy for four years, most of which was spent at sea via three different aircraft-carriers. My final year of the Navy was spent in Yokosuka Japan, which result in me learning very little Japanese. Most interesting is the fact that I did not learn Japanese until my Naval contract ended and I attended Junior College in California. During my stay at Junior College, my classes were typically 95% asian. Therefore I began my study of Japanese in college rather than in Japan due to the fact that my fellow students were mostly Japanese while my co-workers in Japan were American.