101. C O O L E S T . C O M Explains historical development of the japanese language and diversity of its gender specific constructs and their usage. http://www.coolest.com/jpfm.htm

Menu Products POPtrans JquickTrans CquickTrans Penpen ... Unsupported Services POPjisyo.com Mobile Œg‘Ñ”à Stuff Articles Links Home Theater About Author's notes (2000/08/01): After more feedback, here are some other explanations for the use of "ko" in Japanese women's first names: Many princesses and upperclass women had "ko" in their names. Later when the lines became blurred between some classes, the "ko" naming artifact became popular with more people. Not as much thought was put into women's names, because only the first born son carried on the family wealth. For women's names it was easiest to default to a random beauty related term + "ko". Many people have told me "it doesn't have any particular meaning". But if I believed that I wouldn't have anything to write about. :) If there are parts of this text that are plain wrong, please feel free to email me (be nice to the gaijin). Japanese culture and slang changes/evolves fairly quickly so much of this information may be out of date soon or even now. Manifestations of Gender Distinction in the Japanese Language Introduction Present day Japanese has evolved very differently from European languages. One relatively unique aspect of Japanese is the diversity of its gender specific constructs and their usage. In the current state of Japanese and its many dialects, speaker gender plays an important role in word choice, sentence structure, tone of voice and more generally the ways in which a person can present him/herself with the language. The importance of roles in Japanese society makes the speaker obligated to conform to language stereotypes whereas in English, the language of self-proclaimed individualists, social forces have been pushing to neutralize the inherent biases of the language. Even though there are ancient stereotypes still embodied in the Japanese language and culture, we are beginning to see these break down as well.

102. Japan Journal After reading about and studying japanese language and management at university, the author visits Japan for the first time in January 1998 for 10 days. http://www.unorg.com/japanjournal.htm

Japan Journal After reading about and studying Japanese language and management at university, I was delighted to finally make my first visit there in January 1998 for 10 days. This is a personal report based on my own observations and interpretations of them. I have also used other books and articles about Japan and insight from an astute observer of Japanese culture and supporter of unorganization based in Japan- John Bardos. I have sought to communicate truth- but naturally a few mis-interpretations will have crept in. Most of what I observed and learned whilst in Japan is listed here, and I am confident that it is much more right than wrong. Supreme politeness and honesty I really enjoyed the politeness and honestly that I found in Japan. I enjoyed bowing my head all the time and trying to out-polite my hosts! Certainly, Japanese people are very helpful to non-Japanese- on a couple of occasions I stopped amidst a sea of people and looked lost. Seconds later, people voluntarily stopped and were asking me where I wanted to go. Twice, people who I asked directions from actually accompanied me over a kilometer towards my destination- once, trying to find the site of the Coca-Cola Olympic torch relay on Route 248 in Tokyo (a very fashionable area) and once trying to find some company offices. It was probably easier for them to show me than explain it to me!

103. Japanese Language Research -links japanese language and Linguisticsrelated links. Links Page in Japanese comingsoon. Mailing Lists; Journals; Publishers. japanese language and Linguistics. http://nihongo.human.metro-u.ac.jp/long/link-e.htm

Japanese Language and Linguistics-related links Links Page in Japanese coming soon. (Our last update was on the 20th of June, 2002) Japanese Language and Linguistics Research Institutes Language Communities in Japan Academic Organizations ... General Linguistics (other than Japanese) Search Helps and Computer Tools Mailing Lists Journals Publishers Japanese Language and Linguistics Japanese Language Research Bibliography (This a gold mine of information provided by the National Language Research Institute in Tokyo. You will find here dozens of zipped files containing annotated bibliographical data on English resources concerning Japanese linguistics. This index page is in Japanese, and will come out in gibberish if you don't have Japanese fonts on your browser, but you should basically be able to tell from the file names what each contains. You will need WinZip to unzip the files.) Linguistics WWW Home Pages in Japan (links to a large variety of language and linguistics pages, mostly at Japanese universities) ATR Human Information Processing (especially check out their "

104. Gahoh Home Page-E Welcome! japanese language. Maintained by Masayoshi Kanai. The penmanship ofjapanese language movies. Moving Web to. http//www.gahoh.com/home.html. http://www3.wind.ne.jp/gahoh/home.html

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105. Japanese Kanji And Kana - Joyo96 This Kanji Study Group website teaches written japanese language for free. Indexed kanji references, quick lookups, and primers on kanji, hiragana and katakana. http://www.joyo96.org/

Home Page Fax: Tel: Email: ceo(at)fat24.com Who Created Joyo96.org? I Joyo96.org shares a joint mailing list with Mangajin.com, Rolomail.com, JapanPoem.com, and KanjiCafe.com. No personal information is collected other than your anonymous email address. Your address is never sold, shared, or divulged. A message concerning Japanese related products, upgrades to online applications for studying Japanese, or other Japan related announcements are made about once per week. You can manage your participation on this list from here: Email: Subscribe Unsubscribe Please Have an Ice Mocha Jim Rose was a 19 year old US Marine in Okinawa, Japan, incapable of figuring out how to ride the bus to Naha. As Joyo96 approaches its 3 millionth page view (this is page view 3,156,889), Jim gives the world yet another innovative free tool for Japanese language learning. Ice Mocha : an advanced Japanese vocabulary study tool located at the . Sign up for a free "Ice" account, and then take some time to master its controls. You will be helping yourself to one of the most innovative and powerful Japanese study tools in existence. It has a built in dictionary . It can suggest the most frequently used words that are not on your study list. It can find words containing the same kanji of any word you are studying. It has the ability to toggle the yomigana/furigana (small kana which help you pronunce unfamiliar kanji) on and off, and Ice presents words in both vertical and horizontal orientation. But wait! - There's more! It also has a fully integrated text imaging proxy server for those who cannot process Japanese text. Everyone can use it! It even has keyboard driven commands if you use an HTML 4 compliant browser.

106. Japanese Electronic Dictionary And Language Translators. Japanese - Other Langua Usage of this model will make your working with an English or japanese languageeasy and convenient. ECTACO Language Teacher EJ200D English - Japanese, http://japanese.dictionaries.ectaco.com/

Handheld Dictionaries Translation Software Company Support Search for: Buy from the maker at ECTACO official website. Don't pay any extra sales charges. Handheld Japanese electronic dictionary Select Handheld dictionaries: - Select Dictionaries by Language - Albanian Arabic Armenian Azeri Bulgarian Chinese Chinese Traditional Croatian Czech Dutch English Estonian Farsi Finnish French German Greek Hebrew Hungarian Italian Japanese Korean Latin Polish Portuguese Romanian Russian Serbian Slovak Spanish Swedish Thai Turkish Vietnamese Select Dictionary Software: -Language- Albanian Arabic Azeri Bulgarian Chinese Chinese Traditional Croatian Czech Danish Dutch English Estonian Farsi Finnish French German Greek Hebrew Hindi Hungarian Italian Japanese Korean Latin Latvian Lithuanian Norwegian Polish Portuguese Romanian Russian Serbian Slovak Slovenian Spanish Swedish Thai Turkish Ukrainian Vietnamese Yiddish and/or: -Select Platform- Pocket PC Palm OS Windows Mobile Phones Symbian OS We are happy to offer you the new generation of japanese electronic dictionaries: very popular dictionary among students of Japanese - Seiko RMined efforts of Ectaco’s linguists, engineers and programmers - Partner EJ400T. These japanese dictionaries have the widest range of features. They contains more than 500,000 translations to and from English and Japanese including medical, technical, business and legal terms. Choose your own Japanese electronic dictionary: ECTACO Partner EJ400T English - Japanese electronic dictionary ECTACO Language Teacher - EJ200D Japanese English dictionary Lingo Pacifica Talk 10 Language Translator TR2203 ... Our Links GD-128 Chinese

107. Japanese Language Resources - Learn Japanese - Academic Info Academic Info japanese language Studies Directory of Online Resources Home Search Index Contact Test Prep Degree Programs Student Center Study http://www.academicinfo.net/japanlang.html

Academic Info Japanese Language Studies - Directory of Online Resources Home Search Index Contact ... Japan Studies Japanese Language Studies Language Studies Japanese Japanese Dictionaries A Comparison of Japanese Dictionaries. Jeffrey's Japanese-English Dictionary CJKV-English Dictionary "A Database of CJK Characters and Compounds Related to East Asian Cultural, Political, and Intellectual History. Chief Editor: Charles Muller, Toyo Gakuen University Japanese Text Initiative "The Japanese Text Initiative (JTI) intends to put online on the Web texts of classical Japanese literature in Japanese characters. Our primary audience is English-speaking scholars and students. Where possible, the Japanese texts will be accompanied by English translations. All JTI texts will be tagged in Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) according to Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) standards, and converted to HTML for display on the Web. An important purpose is to make JTI texts in both Japanese and English searchable, both individually and as a group." (University of Virginia / University of Pittsburgh) Jim Breen's Japanese Page This most academic of the general directories. Included is his

108. TOMOKO'S JAPANESE LANGUAGE TUITION Tomoko s japanese language Tuition. In London, UK. japanese language private andgroup lessons from beginner to advanced level. Online services. http://www.tealeaf.f2s.com/

INTRODUCTION WHY JAPANESE HOW YOU LEARN PRIVATE LESSON ... HOME Tomoko's Japanese Language Tuition aim at a high standard for private lesson, group lesson and online services. PRIVATE LESSON We provide Japanese lessons for non-native learners in the centre and the outskirts of London, United Kingdom. Your teacher arranges tailored lesson plan to suit your needs. We have experiences at teaching for complete beginners to advanced level. details... GROUP LESSON In-house tuition is perfect choice for small group which consists of five to fifteen students. Our qualified and experienced teacher visits your office regullary. Your course is planned to suit your requirement. We manage achievement of individual students and report after each term. details... ONLINE SERVICES Proofreading Translation Correspondence Course Online Assessment details...

109. JLPT Forum A forum to talk about the test., ask questions on Japanese kanji, grammer and test questions. http://www.jlpt.com/

JLPT - Japanese Language Proficiency Test Forum Help Search Members ... Calendar Welcome, visitor You have to register before you can post to our site View new posts Username Password Search Website Advanced Search Online Users There are online users browsing: 0 members and 1 visitors Latest Discussions Hello! Hajimemashita Read: 15 Comments: Read: 26 Comments: Info about the JLPT level 4... Read: 101 Comments: 1 for registrstion. avinash bansnarayan gupta Read: 40 Comments: for registrstion. avinash bansnarayan gupta Read: 15 Comments: discussion about learning. avinash bansnarayan gupta Read: 34 Comments: Japanese Momo Read: 83 Comments: 1 Kyodai Mahjong - improve ch... Zenas Read: 23 Comments: Ohayo! Zenas Read: 37 Comments: Hello minna... itopz Read: 45 Comments: Recent Articles rosie Read: 67 Comments: to enroll in Japanese Langu... newsiv Read: 119 Comments: 1 JLPT Certification Guest Read: 201 Comments: 1 hajimemashite.... amethystnights Read: 123 Comments: 2 Hello! steedev Read: 98 Comments: 3 Posted by Hajimemashita - 06-2-04 21:33 - comments Hello, my name is vincent. I am just recnetly learning japanese. By myself its been difficult, but i am trying my best. I am 17 i have had 4 years of latin and i am learning spainish now. I hope to add Japanese to my repitoire.

110. Kobe YMCA Japanese Language School The Kobe YMCA japanese language School renewed our homepage. We alsohave a Japanese Q A BBS. We hope you like and enjoy it. http://www.kobeymca.or.jp/japanese/

Kobe YMCA College Japanese Department Port Tower, Kobe Kobe New York Los Angels Sydney *Summer Time KOBE YMCA HOMEPAGE (NIHONGO) Intensive courses Japanese culture Field Trip ... Japanese Quiz From this September we are going to give you Japanese Quiz at regular intervals. Second one is Setsuzokushi(conjunction) Quiz. Please send us answer by E-mail. We will Check them with some comments. Why don't you try it? We have started Japanese E-mail system.Our Japanese teacher helps you with your Japanese learning.Please send questions about Japanese learning by E-mail. This board is only for the questions about Japanese. If you want to get some information about our school program, please access to this e-mail address. kblets@ymcajapan.org Japanese Teachers available for overseas Link YMCA Japanese Language Schools The National Council of YMCA's of Japan Kids Web Japan City Of Kobe ... BACK

111. University Of The Sacred Heart Christian women's college in Tokyo with foreign and japanese languages and literature, history and social sciences, philosophy, and education departments. http://www.u-sacred-heart.ac.jp/english/

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112. The Toronto Japanese Language School Home Page The home page of the Toronto japanese language School web site. Theschool was culture and language. Toronto japanese language School. http://www.tjls.on.ca/

Toronto Japanese Language School Providing family oriented Japanese language instruction since 1949 Welcome A brief introduction to the TJLS Location The Toronto location of the TJLS News and Events The title says it all Staff A who's who of the current year's staff Board of Directors The Board of Directors for the current year Donations Our generous donors Children's Section Things Japanese of interest for children Links Japanese related links Guest Book Please take the time to say hello The Toronto Japanese Language School is a non-profit organization specializing in instruction in Japanese language and culture for adults and children. Send comments about these Web Pages to the TJLS Web Master

113. Japanese: Foreign Language News And Newspapers: Publication Types: MIT Libraries japanese language News and Magazines For information on obtaining Japanese fonts,please see the following site(s) Japanese Fonts Asahi Shimbun The Asahi http://libraries.mit.edu/guides/types/flnews/japanese.html

Index Chinese French German ... Italian Japanese Portuguese Russian Spanish Sarah Wenzel Foreign Languages Librarian swenzel@mit.edu MIT Publication Types Foreign Language News and Newspapers Japanese Language News and Magazines For information on obtaining Japanese fonts, please see the following site(s): Japanese Fonts Asahi Shimbun Chunichi Shimbun Fuji T.V. ... Nihon Keizai Shimbun From Tokyo Japan Nikkei Net Nishi-Nippon Shimbun OCS News Opendoors ... The Yomiuri Shimbun This page was last updated on 08/13/03 Quick Links Ask Us! Barton: MIT Libraries' catalog BookPage delivery - MIT only Contact Us Digital Library of MIT Theses Document Services DSpace: search MIT's DSpace GIS: Geographic Info. Systems Hours Information Navigator ILB: Interlibrary Borrowing List of MIT Libraries Research consultations - MIT only RSC: RetroSpective Collection Suggest a purchase - MIT only Web-Docs

114. Kana Sensei Win/MSDOS japanese language teaching software for beginners. http://www.chachich.com/mdchachi/ksensei.html

Kana Sensei This is Shareware I originally created in 1991 for helping me with learning Japanese. It is MS-DOS software but, amazingly, it still works on Microsoft Windows (all versions as of 2001). Some people may still find it useful. It is basically a flash-card type program in which you can learn hiragana, katakana, a few basic kanji and some vocabulary. If you try it out, please drop me a line just to say hi. By the way, ignore the address in the documentation as it is no longer valid. However, if you really want to send me money, let me know and something can be arranged. :-) Download via HTML ksensei1.zip Kana Sensei Program ks_ou.zip Additional quizzes originally sent only to registered users Download via FTP ksensei1.zip Kana Sensei Program ks_ou.zip Additional quizzes originally sent only to registered users Directions for installation: Create a directory anywhere on your hard drive Unzip the files using PK-Zip or any tool that recognizes ZIP files Run the file ks.exe

115. Embassy Of Japan - Japanin Suomen Suurlähetystö - Welcome - Tervetuloa Bilateral relations, events, scholarships, consular information and japanese language links. http://www.fi.emb-japan.go.jp/

Japanin suurlähetystö Eteläranta 8 00130 Helsinki Puh. 09-6860200 Fax. 09-633012 inquiry.fi@jpnembassy.fi Tervetuloa Japanin Suomen suurlähetystön kotisivuille! Toivomme Teidän löytävän sivuiltamme hyödyllistä tietoa palveluistamme ja toiminnastamme. Olemme kiitollisia kaikesta palautteestanne. Welcome to the website of the Embassy of Japan in Finland! We hope these pages will provide you with useful information of our services and activities. Your ideas and comments are always welcome. Asiakaspalvelu avoinna/ customer service open: ma-pe/Mon-Fri (1.6.-31.8.) Käyntiosoite/Entrance: Unioninkatu 9, 00130 Helsinki Aukioloaikojen poikkeukset/Exceptions to the opening hours Suomen ja Japanin väliset suhteet Konsuliasiat ja viisumit Opiskelu Japanissa ja apurahat ... Kansai Economic Federationin (Kansai Keizai Rengôkai) puheenjohtaja Mr. Yoshihisa Akiyama puhui 11.5.2004 Teollisuuden ja Työnantajain keskusliiton tilaisuudessa aiheenaan "A Private-Sector Look at the Japanese Economy"

116. JapaNet - Japanese Language Website Design japanese language internet design. http://www.japanet.com.au

Japan News Japanese language internet design ABN 72 085 938 745 English Japanese Gallery - click on image for details more Testimonials Email Us About ... JapaNet News ABN 72 085 938 745

117. Welcome To Barrett Translations language and linguistics resources for Asian languages including japanese hiragana with vocabulary, a Korean linguistics glossary, Mandarin Chinese and Old English with romanization and transliteration. http://www.btranslations.com/Resources.asp

Home Services Resources Contact Us ... English - for Japanese students of English Old English - reconstructed pronunciation Japanese - a complete set of lessons in hiragana Korean - a mailing list and verbs Mandarin - a mailing list Romanization and Pronunciation - a guide to spelling, pronounciation, foreign languages and transcriptions Linguistics Glossary - an ongoing project Webpage History Links If you have language or linguistic related information you want hosted here, please click gogaku@btranslations.com This page may be cached for private use only.

118. Japanese-Online Learn basic japanese free on the net by dialogs, sound files, vocabulary, grammar and culture lessons. http://www.japanese-online.com/language/

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119. LANGUAGE   INSTITUTE OF   ATLANTA Learn French in Atlanta. For children. Business, conversation and grammar. Also Spanish, English, japanese, Korean, Italian, Russian, German. http://www.speakingfrench.com/

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120. So You Want To Learn Japanese... So You Want To Learn japanese. You've eaten at a few japanese restaurants, seen some anime, hosted an exchange student, and had a japanese girlfriend. that Europse adopt the japanese written language as a "universal" language understood by all Although many of japaneselanguage students are smart, funny, hard working people http://www-unix.oit.umass.edu/~thoureau/japanese.html

(I made some T-Shirts. You can buy them. Check them out!) So You Want To Learn Japanese. You've eaten at a few Japanese restaurants, seen some anime, hosted an exchange student, and had a Japanese girlfriend. And now, somewhere in the back of your tiny brain, you think that Japanese would be a good language to learn. Hey, you could translate video games! Or Manga! Or even Anime! Pick up Japanese girls, impress your friends! Maybe you'll even go to Japan and become an anime artist! Yeah! Sounds like a great idea! So you head down to the library, pick up some books with titles like "How To Teach Yourself Japanes In Just 5 Seconds A Day While Driving Your Car To And From The Post Office" and "Japanese For Complete And Total, Utter Fools Who Should Never Procreate". Hey, you already know a few words from your manga collection/girlfriend/anime. Excited and impressed with your new knowledge, you begin to think: "Hey. Maybe, just maybe , i could do this for a living! Or even major in Japanese! Great Idea, Right?

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