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Acknowledgement of Country
Title page
Introduction
About the Author
Accessibility Information
1.0 Head Start with Japanese
1.1 Introduction to Hiragana
1.2 あ (a) – こ (ko)
1.3 さ (sa) – と (to)
1.4 な (na) - ほ (ho)
1.5 ま (ma) - よ (yo)
1.6 ら (ra) - ん (n) and Hiragana Review
2.0 Welcome to Japanese-Learning Communities (1)
2.1 The Japanese Sound System
2.2 Additional Features of Hiragana
2.3 The Art of Meeting and Greeting
2.5 Particle を (o)
2.4 X is Y: Xは (wa) Yです (desu)
2.6 The Japanese Punctuation System
2.7 Gender and First-Person Pronouns
2.8 Review
3.0 Welcome to Japanese-Learning Communities (2)
3.1 Japanese Word Order
3.2 Is X Y?: X は (wa) Y ですか (desu ka)
3.3 Describing Likes and Dislikes
3.4 The Particles の (no) and も (mo)
3.5 Numbers 0 to 10 and Year Levels
3.6 Review
4.0 Bringing Japan Home (1)
4.1 Introduction to Katakana
4.2 Demonstrative Pronouns: これ (kore), それ (sore), あれ (are) and どれ (dore)
4.3 What is X?: Xは (wa) なん (nan) ですか (desu ka)
4.4 How to Count Small Items
4.5 The Particle と (to) and The Conjunction それから (sorekara)
4.6 The Sentence-Ending Particles ね (ne) and よ (yo)
4.7 Review
5.0 Bringing Japan Home (2)
5.1 Formal and Informal Speech Styles
5.2 X is not Y: Xは (wa) Yじゃないです (janai desu)
5.3 Numbers 11 to 100
5.4 Telling and Asking One's Place of Origin
5.5 The Conjunction でも (demo)
5.6 Review
6.0 Expanding Your Japanese Toolkit (1)
6.1 ます (masu) Form and Verb Conjugation
6.2 Using the Particle に (ni) for Time References
6.3 Frequency Words
6.4 Closed-Ended Questions: ますか (masu ka)
6.5 Exploring the Verbs: Come and Go
6.6 The Particles に (ni) and へ (e)
6.7 The Sentence-Ending Particle よね (yone)
6.8 Review
Bibliography
Peer Review Statement
Versioning History
Licensing and Attribution Information
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