Introduction to the Japanese Language

Reading

Read this to get started:http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Japanese_Phrasebook/Greetings_and_farewell Read the introduction to the Japanese language on Wikibooks to familiarize yourself with the language.

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Words to Know

Quiz

1.   How would you write, "Cats eat mice" in Japanese? (Use rōmaji.)

2.  English is an SVO (Subject Verb Object) language. What kind of language is Japanese? (Answer is possible with three letters or all written.)

3.  What is the name for people of higher status and lower status (lowercase, comma deliminated)

4.  How many general-use characters set forth by the Ministry of Education should one know in order to be literate in Japanese?

5.  What is the name of the group of general-use characters set forth by the Ministry of Education one should know in order to be literate in Japanese (lowercase)?

6.  What are the names of the two syllabaries that make up the writing form Kana (lowercase, comma delimited)?

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